Here are MLB teams' wins in 2012, with Vegas' O/U wins going into the season in parentheses:

Arizona: 81 (84.5) Diff: -3.5
Atlanta: 94 (86.5) Diff: +7.5
Baltimore: 93 (70.5) Diff: +22.5
Boston: 69 (87.5) Diff: -18.5
Chicago Cubs: 61 (73.5) Diff: -12.5
Chicago WS: 85 (76.5) Diff: +8.5
Cincinnati: 97 (86.5) Diff: +10.5
Colorado: 64 (82.5) Diff: -18.5
Cleveland: 68 (75.5) Diff: -7.5
Detroit: 88 (94.5) Diff: -6.5
Houston: 55 (62.5) Diff: -7.5
Kansas City: 72 (78.5) Diff: -6.5
LAA: 89 (89.5) Diff: -0.5
LAD: 86 (81.5) Diff: +4.5
Miami: 69 (82.5) Diff: -13.5
Milwaukee: 83 (82.5) Diff: +0.5
Minnesota 66 (74.5) Diff: -8.5
NYM: 74 (74.5) Diff: -0.5
NYY: 95 (93.5) Diff: +1.5
Oakland: 94 (72.5) Diff: +21.5
Philadelphia: 81 (95.5) Diff: -14.5
Pittsburgh: 79 (73.5) Diff: +5.5
San Diego: 76 (70.5) Diff: +5.5
San Fran: 94 (87.5) Diff: +6.5
Seattle: 75 (72.5) Diff: +2.5
StL: 88 (84.5) Diff: +3.5
Tampa: 90 (87.5) Diff: +2.5
Texas: 93 (94.5) Diff: -1.5
Toronto: 73 (81) Diff: -8.0
Washington: 98 (80.5) Diff: +17.5




Yeah, staggering accuracy there. 15/30 teams were +/- 7.5 games or more outside of Vegas' predicted win total.

One of my other "St. Louis Friends" emailed me tonight. He said he knows what's wrong with the Royals:

"Lollygaggers!"

Filter evasion. Reported.

According to Posnanski: In the last 11 games the Royals have hit 2 home runs. Both by 39 yr old Miguel Tejada

Idiot? That's priceless coming from you.

Mellinger's latest: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/27...#storylink=cpy

Highlights:

There’s no simple fix here. No easy move to make. The Royals’ skid is the fault of many, and to scapegoat anyone specifically would be unfair and misleading. But to continue with the status quo — pretending or hoping it’ll fix itself — would be delusional.

...

The Royals can sit around and hope their luck evens out, or they can show that losing in bunches is no longer acceptable. It won’t be entirely fair to whoever is dumped, but that’s not the point. The point is that something needs to change.

OMG lol. God we suck. I love how when the Royals regress to the mean, all our overachievers become average, and our young "stars" continue to suck.

The "fix" is to fire DM. Now, that's not simple, but that's the ultimate solution to the problem, which many of us have known for several years.

I read on facebook that the Cubs pitchers have more home runs in the last 15 games or something than the entire Royals team.

Since May 15, I believe. 3 vs 2. And they have three pitchers who have hit home runs. We have one player on our ENTIRE TEAM who has.

It does prove there are all sorts of castoffs and retreads who can hit more hr than our own players.

They won't change a goddamn thing until the All Star Break, if then.

They're still ahead of last year's pace by three games.
If they lose 89 games this year, they'll stick out their chest and say "PROGRESS!'
They could lose 90 and say "Well, we held our ground..."
This entire organization has no clue what it takes to win. Nor do they care. You think the Red Sox, or Yanks, or Texas would tolerate this? The Dodgers might whack Donnie Baseball. If they do, maybe we should go grab him and punt Ned. Of course, he chose Trey Hillman as his bench coach, so maybe he's not such a smart guy after all.

I don't really hold Dayton to the expectations of large payroll teams. But I do think he should be compared to peer clubs and after 7 years its clear he can't ever out do any of them either.

Looks more like the dumbass is flipping someone else off and George is hitting him with the bat
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Several years ago when I was still blogging the Royals on a daily basis, I decided to root for "visitor," and made that my team record. I called the team the "Kansas City Kanchos." The Kanchos won over 100 games and won the AL Central by more than ten games.

"Kancho" is a Japanese term. It's Japanese slang for "finger enema" and is also called "a thousand years of pain." In short, the perfect nickname for your Kansas City Royals.

So looks like Royals fans are getting "Kancho'ed" again this year.
Bend over, Royals Fans. Time for the Kancho!

http://www.kancho.org/