If anyone cares, we probably have lost Maxwell, there's very little chance he clears waivers.

Completely devastated.

Trying to dump my playoff ticket package for 1/2 price

Once Coleman flames out, I happily await Getz' return to the major league roster.

Why would anyone care?

Let's get Willie Bloomquist back while we're at it.

Finally Maxwell is gone. I will assume this means that once Infante comes back Gio will stay here.

I'll take the game thread tonight unless someone objects. I haven't done one for weeks and the Royals and I both sit at .500. :D

Something changes tonight. It's shit or get off the pot time.

It's weird. I used to "like" these guys and really pull for them and want to see them do well, but I've grown really tired of them. Butler and Gordon are quiet and ineffectual. Hosmer and Moustakas seem like douchebags. The whole aura and vibe of this team has started to disgust me. idk, I don't think I would mind if they blew the whole thing up.

I haven't been this disinterested in the team in a long time. I think it's because deep down I just don't see them finishing above .500 and if they do, it still won't be enough to make the playoffs. I really hope I'm wrong, but god damn I just don't see it. The team is pretty gutless and it starts at the top of the organization. Doomed from the start.

I've felt like the team wasn't very good for a while, but I have never felt this way about the Royals before--where I kind of don't like the players on a personal level.

I think we all just have to accept the fact that these players that came up through the minor leagues with all of that hype, just aren't who we all thought they were going to be. At this point in many of there careers you just have to accept that. If they don't get it now, then they're probably not ever going to. I just don't think everyone is going to just flip a switch one day and then all of a sudden they're crushing the ball all over the field. This has been a long never ending ongoing problem. They can't hit big league pitching. They can't figure it out to where they're producing consistently. Now I understand many high first rd draft picks don't pan out, but if you look over the last decade, or going back to Zack Greinke, all of these other teams have gotten players like Strasburg, Harper, Longoria, Trout, McCutchen, Scherzer, and you can go on. The Royals haven't done shit in the draft other than Greinke, and Soria, and neither are still with the club, and recently they've been terrible in the draft. The sad thing is we took our best hitting prospect in forever, and traded him away for a two year rental on a pitcher that isn't going to make a difference either way because we can't score any runs offensively. The Royals took all of their eggs and put them into the basket and gambled on the fact that guys like Gordon, Hosmer, Butler, Moustakas would be the meat of the lineup and they'd rank towards the top of the majors in team batting stats. But they're just the ****ing opposite. And it sucks. And the future does not look bright.

Royals are 7 games back of the tigers. Last season they were 2 back at this time

I DVR nearly all the games, and find myself FF through them because we never score. Who wants to watch Billy Fatass ground out to short and Aoki slap 18 foul balls down the LF line before hitting a lazy flyball?


I really can't see how they're going to draw any crowds this summer. They're horribly boring to watch. Nobody can justify 3 hours (and another 1 hour drive time/parking) to sit bored watching these weaklings at the plate.