These guys must be waiting for the 8th
VoyagingJayhawk
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They can chew in the league, though they are "strongly discouraged." Pretty sure it's a no-go for college
@JayHawkFanToo way ahead of me!
Damn! Just one run, please oh please.
Did any of you see what Lawrie said about us Royals fans?
I know I'll always be behind, watch all the games on my laptop
Well there ya go Jeremy! First K
I don't know if you guys and ladies have noticed but Guts is strugglingggggg
@jaybate-1.0 hahahahahahahaha love it
@Crimsonorblue22 Just kidding....but seriously...it's the offseason
@globaljaybird Please share! I would love to see them. My parents rescued a pup that's part black lab and redbone coonhound awhile back and she is the most animated/funniest/craziest personality I've ever seen in a dog.
@Crimsonorblue22 I have absolutely found that to be true! And have an inherent suspicion of all those that do not!
@globaljaybird My finest revelation in life was to imitate my dogs in how much they love their family and life.
Do we own the 8th or what?? You know, I don't care if anyone dislikes how emotional these guys are, they must be miserable folks. No fans are treated to as good a show as the one these Boys in Blue give us every night.
@globaljaybird Just saw that. Ventura getting a little lighter punishment than I expected and Herrera more so. That hurts more than it typically would with Greg on the DL and an important series coming up at Chicago.
FIVE TRIPLES!
I am so thrilled with Moose's progression as a hitter. The potential was always there and yet it seemed like it was always going to be unrealized, especially after the first half of last season.
@Crimsonorblue22 There's a league discipline committee that reviews incidents like these and decides on suspensions if any are to be given.
Suspensions are definitely on the horizon, but they rarely come so fast. Could know by tomorrow. I think Herrera and Ventura are guaranteed to miss some ball games.
Did you guys see the Coach Schneider hire officially announced today? Curious if anyone is familiar with him beyond his time at ESU.
Hahaha I'm back. That was a fun half inning!
@JayHawkFanToo Denny has been calling Royals games since the team's inception and I would almost always defer to his opinion. he's a saint in my family's home. He absolutely has a point about Lawrie's slide being a part of the game, though less prevalent today. Regardless, Lawrie has a reputation and I think it was not just a dirty slide, but an idiotic one as well. If he makes a normal slide he's safe at second. Instead he drives his spikes into Escy's calf, overslides the bag and costs his team an out. I needed no more reasons to dislike Oakland and everything that transpired after that from the Royals side I was okay with.
You know I wasn't sure it was intentional at first, I thought maybe it was. And as the game wore on and Kazmir was showing complete command of his pitches, the pitch that hit Cain seemed more and more suspicious.
Escy gets us on the board!
@Crimsonorblue22 I'll defer to Jirschele's judgment, if he thought Salvy could get there he probably had good logic for doing so. He's proven a very good decision maker over there at third. I really thought Salvy was scoring as soon as Gordo's dinger went over Schafer's head. Credit to Schafer, he played that ball perfectly and the relay throws were perfect.
Here's more from our favorite guy.
@JhawkAlum I think you hit it right on the head. You want to go hard into second when there is clearly no chance of turning a double? Fine. That is a style of play that's been around since the fiery and bigoted Ty Cobb terrorized the bases. You can play that way, but there is also a response to that type of performance that is just as old in the form of retribution.
I don't know if the Royals are quickly becoming the most disliked team in the division or even maybe the league, but it sure does seem that way. Baseball is at it's heart a conservative game. So maybe our boys in blue ruffle some grey feathers with their attitudes and swagger. I'm okay with that. They're having FUN and it's an absolute joy for us fans to see it. If the baseball establishment deems us the bad guys then so be it. When's the last time the Kansas City Royals have been a good enough ball club to be disliked? Sure beats being the lovable loser.
@Crimsonorblue22 Yes I did, very thrilling. By the 8th with Kazmir coming back out to the mound I was a little in doubt, just seemed like we didn't have it. You would think I would have learned by now to never count these guys out.
I swear I'm always late to the party
That was an incredible win today. Danny had a real shaky performance yet somehow, and I still cannot figure it out, only gave up two runs. Much of our offense was gone with either injuries or an off day. Gordo, Salvy, Escy, and Rios. Omar goes out with an apparent groin problem. Our bats were dead. Kazmir was up on the mound dealing. And still we grind it out and get a gutsy win. These guys never think they're out of a baseball game and they're right, they never are.
What a start! Though it is far too early to draw any conclusions from these nine games. It just isn't a meaningful enough sample size to begin making projections. I purposely try to look at early-season trends with an unhealthy degree of skepticism. It is just so tough to discern what may become a consistent marker of a team and what is essentially a fluke. For example, Salvy's plate discipline is famously non-existent, rarely drawing any walks. But at this point last season he had something like ten walks and the highest OBP in the majors. Over the following two weeks he didn't draw a single walk and barely made contact with any baseball thrown his way. So while I've been thrilled with the fact that our newly-discovered power hitting dating back to last October has seemed to carry over to this season, I am trying to remain skeptical.
Regardless of all of that, these guys are so fun to watch, I've been having a blast watching them as I have the last few years. Though clearly biased, I truly believe they are the most fun team in baseball. They are all a bunch of characters and play with so much joy and passion. Here's to beating Billy and the A's this weekend!
3-0! 159 to go!
@JayhawkRock78 Very cool! Many forget the Army showed up in the Pacific, though my primary interest lies with the Marines. The Pacific doesn't quite share the romanticism of fighting in Europe and so is often overlooked. If you can, try and visit Belleau Wood while you're in France. It is one of the seminal battles in Marine Corps history. You could say the modern identity of the Marines was really forged there with moments like these:
"Retreat? Hell, we just got here."
"Come on you sons of bitches, don't you want to live forever?"
It was there that the Germans would give them their most famous nickname, "Teufel Hunden," or in English, "Devil Dogs."
And of the five men that were awarded the CMOH twice during WWI, all five were Marines.
Shortly after the battle, General Pershing, commander of the AEF remarked, "Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can? They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines?"
@JayhawkRock78 Was your grandfather a Marine? You are one lucky man, that is a dream trip of mine.
I have to be honest, I get the criticism and I think it's warranted...but all of this talk about giving up on Coach Self is kind of blowing me away. If you think Coach Self is not the guy to get us banner number six then....well then I guess it's agree to disagree on that one. Eleven Big 12 Conference Championships mean nothing? No, they don't give us the high of a Final Four but that is a special run guys.
@wissoxfan83 Don't have a favorite hockey team because Kansas City doesn't have a team! Hard for me to get into teams that aren't from my hometown and never would I stoop so low as to call myself a St. Louis fan. So I'm left with team USA.
@wissoxfan83 Well, if we're into wishing I'll take a Royals World Series Championship instead of your White Sox, a Chiefs Super Bowl over your Bears, and above all we'll agree on another national championship banner hanging in Allen.
@DoubleDD Well, lets just say I'm not up for a protracted political debate over the business and political ethics of the Koch brothers.
@DoubleDD I think my views on the Koch brothers are made quite clear in my posts. But I mentioned them in regards to the Wichita State basketball program and their probable involvement and what that involvement may entail in regards to keeping Coach Marshall from becoming a Longhorn.
I read Coach Self's comments and got the impression that he was referring to the guys that he didn't specifically mention as those that might leave. Seemed like he was being hopeful but also maybe trying to temper expectations? I just don't see how Wayne and Perry could possibly leave at this point.
@DoubleDD Well that's hyperbolizing my statement a bit. I don't believe anything is wrong with Wichita State matching whatever Texas throws at Marshall, in fact if they can I think they should. However, it is my opinion that the Koch brothers have been less than ethical throughout their business careers and in their business and political dealings. And I don't think I'm being slanderous when I say that with the Koch brothers' far-reaching sphere of influence throughout the American business and government sectors, they could provide the Marshall family with benefits far exceeding anything written into a contract.
And to add on to that, certainly that could be said for similar donors and coaches at other universities, but I don't know that men like David Booth even belong in the same ballpark as the Koch family.
@TheDrunkenJhawk Is it autocorrect or are you fulfilling your username?? Haha!
Well, we're a week away. Any of you gents or ladies going to catch a few games at Kauffman this season? I was up in Seattle the last couple years and got to see the boys whenever they made it up to Safeco. Watched Escy hit his first grand slam last May there. Aside from that I didn't get to see a single Royals game at the K...except for game 6 that is! Haha, had to fly home and will never forget Ventura's swagger on the mound that evening or that 7 run second inning. Magical.
@wissoxfan83 how excited are you to see an even better Abreu? That guy is something special and he's just getting started. Can't wait to see Ventura and Samardzija duke it out!
@brooksmd Ah come on now, that's the type of demonizing that leads to partisan gridlock and an inability to even listen to the other side, let alone compromise. You know full well 99.9% of Americans do not think he's a hero. We as Americans want our politicians to get better but when we engage with opposing sides in such vitriolic terms, why would we expect our politicians to do any different? It's as if we're getting exactly what we ask for. We need statesmen back in Washington. Respectable men and women (veterans if you ask me).
@HighEliteMajor Sorry for the confusion, I tried to limit the length of my post which resulted in me missing your point. Quite simply, the reason the bullets behaved differently is because of where the two bullets struck. The first bullet struck and then tumbled almost entirely through human tissue. The third bullet was indeed the same type of bullet as the one that struck both the President and the Governor. Striking the hard skull of President Kennedy broke apart the metal jacket bullet and similar results can be seen in two different experiments conducted. The behavior of the third round fired is indeed not inconsistent with any other similar bullet. I'll post a link here to a rather lengthy ballistics review that explains this in a much more clear and concise manner.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/pdf/lattimer.pdf ↗
The information relevant to this particular point begins on page 29 of the review.
Boy, this is gonna be a battle!
@wissoxfan83 Let's go Wisconsin! Your guys are my last, great hope.
@approxinfinity I agree with you about Coach Smart. Watching the cbssports special on him left me with the impression that he's really comfortable there as a coach and as a human being, which of course doesn't mean he couldn't be elsewhere. He just seems like a different breed. I don't know if Texas is what he's been waiting for. Would love to have either in the Big 12 as I'm all for a healthy and competitive conference.
@Crimsonorblue22 I don't think anything stops Marshall from going if Texas wants him, but in the past he has referred to the Koch brothers as his "heroes." Perhaps that's the real root of my distrust of the coach. I think we're all aware they'll match anything Texas offers and you know they'll throw in extra elsewhere, perhaps under the table. Is it enough to stay? I think Marshall wants the talent he'll be able to pull at Texas. I think recruiting to Kansas just got a little bit harder.
Wow! Go for a run and come back to a completely different college basketball landscape! I'm still honestly surprised, thought the ultimatum was legitimate. He should have been gone so long ago I just half-expected they'd never pull the trigger on the friendly old coach.
Just noticed this thread, wish I would've seen it a month ago. To start off, I feel the same way about our bullpen as I did last year; cautiously optimistic. Bullpen strength is hard to maintain (as well as team defense) from year to year and I wonder if the unmatched performance from these guys the last couple years can be maintained. Certainly a dip in effectiveness, perhaps a large one, is bound to happen. Is this the year?
Signed a lot of guys with recent injuries that is cause for worry. Medlen could be ready by Julyish and depending on how the rotation is doing, may be placed in either a starting or relieving role. Volquez is another question mark. He's really struggled to throw strikes until last year with the Pirates, but I've read some interesting articles attributing this anomaly to the special framing ability of catcher Russell Martin. I want to believe that this guy just finally started hitting the zone which does happen. I can't argue with the Rios signing because it's a one year contract. His power fell off last year which he's attributed to being injured, but what guarantees he stays healthy this year?
AND THEN THERE"S KENDRYS MORALES. Why? Why? If we want an overweight DH that underperformed in 2014 why didn't we just resign our beloved Billy?? Why???
I don't feel as optimistic about this season as I did last year, but we've kept our core group of guys, the heart of this ball club (minus Shields). Cleveland and Chicago are going to be much improved..maybe..who know's with baseball and that's the beauty of it! It's a long season. The defending AL champion Royals have a legitimate shot at the division this year, yet remain underdogs. I'm fine with that. If my memory serves me right we've been in this position before. Can't wait to see our Boys in Blue!