The Royals

[mocat]

first power rankings of the year

1. Milwaukee .967
2. Oakland .849
3. Atlanta .808
4. LA Dodgers .787
5. Seattle .762
6. San Francisco .744
7. Washington .743
8. LA Angels .721
9. Detroit .700
10. Chicago White Sox .690
11. Toronto .690
12. Tampa Bay .683
13. St Louis .678
14. Pittsburgh .669
15. Colorado .666
16. New York Yankees .662
17. Minnesota .660
18. Philadelphia .643
19. Miami .631
20. Cleveland .631
21. Cincinnati .627
22. Texas .608
23. Boston .593
24. San Diego .584
25. Baltimore .576
26. Chicago Cubs .564
27. New York Mets .541
28. Kansas City .541
29. Houston .510
30. Arizona .486

[mocat]

Kansas related: Osage City native Blake Treinen made his first career appearance for the Nationals on Saturday. Pitched 2 innings and recorded his first strikeout. I met him once and he is a very good looking/smelling and nice person.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/32185/blake-treinen

[joda]

What can we get for Shields? I know there's no way we can get a Wil Myers type back, but got to think he's worth at least as much as Garza.

[ksupamplemousse]

No sporting organization needs a #bid like the Royals

It's hard to be too excited about #bid for the Royals. We have a shitty TV contract that is going to limit the amount of money available to whoever we bring in to be the next general manager. Obviously the right guy could succeed regardless, but I don't have much faith that the Glass family can find that guy.

There is a cockload of money in MLB and the Royals are not at all hurting.  They could spend easily but the Glass family simply doesn't care about winning, doesn't care about be embarrassed and doesn't care about anything but making money.

Forbes says he's operating at a loss 

[Rage Against the McKee]

No sporting organization needs a #bid like the Royals

It's hard to be too excited about #bid for the Royals. We have a shitty TV contract that is going to limit the amount of money available to whoever we bring in to be the next general manager. Obviously the right guy could succeed regardless, but I don't have much faith that the Glass family can find that guy.

There is a cockload of money in MLB and the Royals are not at all hurting.  They could spend easily but the Glass family simply doesn't care about winning, doesn't care about be embarrassed and doesn't care about anything but making money.

Forbes says he's operating at a loss 

That's probably similar to how every farmer I know operates at a loss.

[EMAWforever]

No sporting organization needs a #bid like the Royals

It's hard to be too excited about #bid for the Royals. We have a shitty TV contract that is going to limit the amount of money available to whoever we bring in to be the next general manager. Obviously the right guy could succeed regardless, but I don't have much faith that the Glass family can find that guy.

There is a cockload of money in MLB and the Royals are not at all hurting.  They could spend easily but the Glass family simply doesn't care about winning, doesn't care about be embarrassed and doesn't care about anything but making money.

Forbes says he's operating at a loss 

That's probably similar to how every farmer I know operates at a loss.

When you pay a Billy Butler to not hit homeruns, you should be operating at a loss.

[Dugout DickStone]

What can we get for Shields? I know there's no way we can get a Wil Myers type back, but got to think he's worth at least as much as Garza.

You understand the entire league knows Dayton is not very good at trades and is insanely desperate right now?  That is not at all good for maximizing trade value.

I could see Dayton getting Will Middlebrooks for Shields in a a month or 2.

[joda]

What can we get for Shields? I know there's no way we can get a Wil Myers type back, but got to think he's worth at least as much as Garza.

You understand the entire league knows Dayton is not very good at trades and is insanely desperate right now?  That is not at all good for maximizing trade value.

I could see Dayton getting Will Middlebrooks for Shields in a a month or 2.

Yea, I worded that wrong. I absolutely assume Dayton will eff it up, more wondering what everyone thinks we should get, not what we will get.

[bones129]

No sporting organization needs a #bid like the Royals

It's hard to be too excited about #bid for the Royals. We have a shitty TV contract that is going to limit the amount of money available to whoever we bring in to be the next general manager. Obviously the right guy could succeed regardless, but I don't have much faith that the Glass family can find that guy.

Kinda different situations but I believe the Dallas Cowboys have proven that a bad owner can taint everything.   I don't know the Royals sitch well,  is it a bad owner who won't spend or a bad owner that won't spend and tries to run the team?

It's an owner who won't spend the necessary money and appoints family members with no baseball experience (his son) to run the show.

crap.   At least Jones throw money around.

And it hasn't worked for Jones because true football people aren't making the critical decisions.

Wasn't arguing that.  Also, why the word filter?

Word filter?

For curse words.   Yours appears to be on.   I didn't say crap, I said crap.   No big deal anyway, I was just curious.

Damn, it was on. Don't know why. Definitely not a word filter/censor type.

[Jackstack99EMAW]

What can we get for Shields? I know there's no way we can get a Wil Myers type back, but got to think he's worth at least as much as Garza.

You understand the entire league knows Dayton is not very good at trades and is insanely desperate right now?  That is not at all good for maximizing trade value.

I could see Dayton getting Will Middlebrooks for Shields in a a month or 2.

Yea, I worded that wrong. I absolutely assume Dayton will eff it up, more wondering what everyone thinks we should get, not what we will get.

Dayton won't trade him anyway, he will want to sell the illusion that we are right up there in contention and next year is the real year he was aiming for even without Shields.

[bones129]

What can we get for Shields? I know there's no way we can get a Wil Myers type back, but got to think he's worth at least as much as Garza.

You understand the entire league knows Dayton is not very good at trades and is insanely desperate right now?  That is not at all good for maximizing trade value.

I could see Dayton getting Will Middlebrooks for Shields in a a month or 2.

Yea, I worded that wrong. I absolutely assume Dayton will eff it up, more wondering what everyone thinks we should get, not what we will get.

Dayton won't trade him anyway, he will want to sell the illusion that we are right up there in contention and next year is the real year he was aiming for even without Shields.

Probably an accurate take, 'stack. That's our Dayton.

[Dugout DickStone]

Dayton is done.  He has staked his rep on too many failures, blown way too many drafts and tolerated such crazy ineptitude at most levels that the Glass family will send him packing.

I mean, watch the end of the Twins game on Sunday.  Both Davis and Moose commit mistakes that either lazy or intensely stupid.  Yet they will not miss an AB/inning over it

[jtksu]

Dayton is done.  He has staked his rep on too many failures, blown way too many drafts and tolerated such crazy ineptitude at most levels that the Glass family will send him packing.

I mean, watch the end of the Twins game on Sunday.  Both Davis and Moose commit mistakes that either lazy or intensely stupid.  Yet they will not miss an AB/inning over it

I think Davis won't be seen in a close game for a while.   Moose is interesting...  Dude has potential but rarely shows it during actual MLB games.   You hate to give up but sending his ass to the minors is probably warranted at this point.   Sad thing is, he'll probably rake down there and get called back up.   Him and Gio are terribly frustrating.

[mocat]

 

[star seed 7]

this blog is more fun (usually) with the word filter on

[jtksu]

this blog is more fun (usually) with the word filter on

About the only thing the "mods" do right is their work with word substitution.

[raquetcat]

I bought my first royals shirt this year, thinking it would be "the year", I wore it once, do you think I can still return it?

[420seriouscat69]

I bought my first royals shirt this year, thinking it would be "the year", I wore it once, do you think I can still return it?

Wait for it to be vintage once they get sold and shipped off to somewhere else and then sell it. #profit

[Rage Against the McKee]

Just be thankful that you didn't get a 2014 World Champions tattoo.

['taterblast]

tj carpenter can be a douche, and this is no doubt a dead horse, but this is the only thing to talk about at this point with this franchise

https://soundcloud.com/tj-carpenter/sports-night-the-royals-have-a-serious-culture-problem-on-their-hands

[kim carnes]

first power rankings of the year

1. Milwaukee .967
2. Oakland .849
3. Atlanta .808
4. LA Dodgers .787
5. Seattle .762
6. San Francisco .744
7. Washington .743
8. LA Angels .721
9. Detroit .700
10. Chicago White Sox .690
11. Toronto .690
12. Tampa Bay .683
13. St Louis .678
14. Pittsburgh .669
15. Colorado .666
16. New York Yankees .662
17. Minnesota .660
18. Philadelphia .643
19. Miami .631
20. Cleveland .631
21. Cincinnati .627
22. Texas .608
23. Boston .593
24. San Diego .584
25. Baltimore .576
26. Chicago Cubs .564
27. New York Mets .541
28. Kansas City .541
29. Houston .510
30. Arizona .486

so the padres suck too 

[star seed 7]

you're only like 60 minutes away from the angels tho, and like 1.5 - 8 hours (depending on traffic) from the dodgers

[kim carnes]

you're only like 60 minutes away from the angels tho, and like 1.5 - 8 hours (depending on traffic) from the dodgers

as a diehard pads fan i hate the dodgers

[star seed 7]

hmm, not sure what to tell you then mr carnes, except i bet the pad's are good before kc is good

[bones129]

first power rankings of the year

1. Milwaukee .967
2. Oakland .849
3. Atlanta .808
4. LA Dodgers .787
5. Seattle .762
6. San Francisco .744
7. Washington .743
8. LA Angels .721
9. Detroit .700
10. Chicago White Sox .690
11. Toronto .690
12. Tampa Bay .683
13. St Louis .678
14. Pittsburgh .669
15. Colorado .666
16. New York Yankees .662
17. Minnesota .660
18. Philadelphia .643
19. Miami .631
20. Cleveland .631
21. Cincinnati .627
22. Texas .608
23. Boston .593
24. San Diego .584
25. Baltimore .576
26. Chicago Cubs .564
27. New York Mets .541
28. Kansas City .541
29. Houston .510
30. Arizona .486

So, I see Houston is rated worse than us. Does that mean we lose two of three there this week, or do we get swept?