It's not just Yost. Pervasive throughout the organization.

Firing Yost wont do a damned thing. Either this team is a playoff team, or it is not. The manager is almost irrelevant.

Then shit can the whole lot.

They don't work the count and swing at horrible pitches. It's either a philosophy or we have the worst god damn hitters ever. Blow the whole ****ing thing up and start over. You have no chance when your offense is this pathetic.

You know, this is something that me and my father in law were talking about at the game today. We have pretty decent front row seats behind home plate in the upper deck so we have a good idea of what's strikes and what isn't. It seemed like after the first inning Verlanders zone increased some on the outsideportion of the zone. At the same time, Varas' to us shrank in the same area. So we talked about hitting approaches from each team. Detroit could sit on anything outside because it wasn't being called and we surmised that the Royals had to change they're approach on the outside pitches because it was being called strikes for Verlander and they had to protect with swings. Could be wrong, just something that both him and I saw. He's had these seats for the last 10 years and we've had ours for the last 2.

Umpire not calling the game both ways... must be Ned's fault.

Well a pitcher like Verlander is going to get those calls more times than not.

It's the Michael Jordan rule. If you're one of the best, the discretion usually rules in your favor.

Leads to a different conversation. After a called k for Verlander we both went ballistic yelling that there's no way that was a strike. Next inning (I think it was top of the 3rd) Vargas throws the same pitch on a 3-2 count and ump just stands there for the walk on Martinez if I recall correctly. Tiger fan behind us says, that that's why Verlander is Verlander and Vargas is Vargas. Then he proceed to rumble off stats for Verlander. I'm a purist for the most part, but it's absolutely frustrating when the same pitches from different pitchers are called differently.

The Royals just played one of the best teams in baseball. There's a reason the Tigers have won the Central the last few years. It's disheartening to get swept but it happens.
The Royals now get to play seven games against two teams that have losing records. Plus, Billy will get to sit on the bench for the first three. Can the Royals pitchers bat into more double plays per game than Billy?
My feelings are, if the Royals are still playing 500 ball at the end of May, they have a chance to make the playoffs. If they'd have been playing 500 ball at the end of May last year, they'd have won the Central. The Royals were 7 - 7 against the Tigers after the All-Star-Break last year.

There were a few pitches like that but for the most part we were swinging at bad pitches. We just go up there and swing. And in Homser's case he goes up there and tries to knock the cover off the ball with every swing.

5 - 13 in the division?


**** it. Drop a low grade nuke on the K and forget Kansas City ever had a baseball team. I'm sick of GMDM's koolaid. I'm going to go eat rat poison.

Royals Apathy Mode: Engaged.

I made it to Sat and Sundays games. It was disappointing, frustrating and awful to watch. My biggest issue isn't that we got swept by the Tigers, it's that we looked so dysfunctional in this series. It's almost like we just mailed it in after Shields got pounded on Friday night. Awful performances all the way around - pitching and hitting.

Very important 7 game West Coast trip. Would love to go 5-2 and get back to above .500, but I envision something much worse, more like 2-5. Starts with a big game tonight. Need a money performance by Ace.

Instead of a banner we all need to chip in some money for a bus load of skanks to be the teams slumpbusters. I think that might be the only thing to save the season.

I would love nothing more than Ventura going out there tonight and dealing. Need him to stop this slide.