I am excited to have a night game finally that I can watch at home instead of watching on the internet at work.

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Only games I've been able to watch are the two weekend games.

Looking at the hourly forecast, they might be able to get an official game past 5 innings, maybe. If so, it probably wont go all 9, so if they play we need to score early.

We'll probably end up with a double-header on Wednesday, especially if they end up with a suspended game tonight (tied after 5 innings). The forecast tomorrow has light showers tapering off by 4 or 5, so they ought to be able to play 2 tomorrow if they are willing to wait long enough. Both teams have a day off on Thursday, so they could do Thursday afternoon, but practically no one would show up, and they probably don't want to take away off days that were meant for travel if a double-header is easily doable.

Let's get 2 from Guthrie, 1 from Collins, 1 from Crowe, and one from Herrera. We can play small ball and hope to push one run across.

I have a feeling we'll get tonight's game in OK.

They should move the game up to 6 pm to make sure they get the game in, but with the royals averaging 40K this year at the ball park, not sure the workers could handle it.

Lol

I am off tonight and tomorrow.

Hoping the weather holds off so I can at least watch the games from home!

And run that winning streak up to four games!

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THE CRIMEDOG FRED MCGRIFF COULD HANDLE IT.

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Wow, looks like the siteseeing was good out there yesterday.

Uhh, yeah it was

No the back row, yes to the front. Except the one on the left looks like shes missing a finger

must be the st joe in me...but I really like the girl in the jean shorts.

I'm pretty sure you'd get thrown out before you could finish.

Does anyone think the Royals will top the 2 million mark for attendance this season? Hasn't happened since 1991.

Averaging about 25K a game? That is pretty tough but if they are legitimately in a race or even leading the division all throughout the season then I say yes. Weekends have always been big nights. With a winning team they will be almost to capacity.

Let's do an all-futility team for the Royals. Players must have played in at least 25 games in one of the last five seasons.

Here is my lineup:

C: Jason Kendall
1B: Ross Gloaf
2B: Yuni
3B: Mark Teahen
SS: Tony Pena Jr.
LF: Gregor Blanco
CF: Josh Anderson
RF: Rick Ankiel
DH: Mike Jacobs

I think I'm too depressed to do pitchers right now, but let's set a minimum of 5 starts in a season to qualify.

Who knows? I will say that after the opening day game, on TV last nights game the stadium looked only about half full.

Starting pitcher Hochevar

why not kyle davies?

Sanchez, Mazzaro, and O'Sullivan have to be in the conversation.

we should do last 20 seasons and see what obscure names we can dig up? ill start: Calvin Pickering

Carmello Martinez

OK...I've done some thinking on this one.

Here's my all time terrible Kansas City Royals 25 man roster.
Now, my criteria is this:
•Players had to spend a decent amount of time actually playing and affecting games, sucking like a hoover.
OR...
•Player had to have cost us a high draft pick or a shitload of money and delivered NOTHING in return,
OR....
•Player had to be acquired in a one-sided terrible trade and burned the team,
OR....
•Player had to have been a total A-HOLE and clubhouse cancer.

Here it is:

1B: Ken Harvey
2B: Terry Shumpert
SS: Neifi Perez
3B: Craig Pauquette
C: Ed Hearn
LF: Kevin McReynolds
CF: Dee Brown
RF: Juan Gonzalez
DH: Mike Jacobs

Starting Pitchers:
Scott Anderson
Kyle Davies
Dan Reichert
Runelvys Hernandez
Jonathan Sanchez

Relievers:
Brian Anderson
Yasuhiko Yabuta
Mark Davis
Vin Mazzaro
Albie Lopez

Closer:
Ricky Bottalico

Bench:
Yuni Betancourt
Mark Quinn
Tony Pena Jr.
Calvin Pickering
Mike DiFelice

Now that's a stench!

Remember when Tony Pena Jr batted with 1 hand and got a hit lol

No Doug Henry or Blowberto?

Shumpert doesn't seem to meet your criteria. McReynolds wasn't that bad, and Hearn got hurt. Not sure they belong on the list.

Quinn wasn't a bad player, either. Neither was Pickering, and I'm not sure how be fits the profile, either.

No list is complete without Chuck Knoblauch or Juan Gonzalez on it.

And good lord, George. That roster would be hari-kari worthy if it were real life.

Terry Shumpert: 5 years in KC, .220 batting average.

Pickering: 2 years in KC: 8 HRs, 56Ks.

McReynolds is what we got from the Mets for Saberhagen. In 2 years with KC, he hit .246. He was out of baseball a year later.

Hearn is what we got for David Cone. Yes, he was hurt, but that trade really cost us. Cone made it back to KC as a Free Agent and won a Cy Young in 1994, then the Royals traded him again in 1995.

Quinn in four years hit .282 which is great, but it was a very hollow .282. He K'ed 184 times and only walked 56 times, only hit a total of 45 homers (that's 11 per year) from a power position (outfield). And his outfield play and fielding was atrocious. He also put himself on the DL, getting hurt Kung-Fu Fighting with his brother. Bonehead.

Pickering had fewer than 150 career ABs for the Royals.

Nice list George. No Storm Davis?

Well, you could pick an all-washed-up team. Players who came here on their last legs. That would include guys like Harmon Killebrew, Vida Blue, Chili Davis, Reggie Sanders, Miguel Tejada, etc etc etc. There's been a ton of those guys limp through here.

You do realize that there were strong thunderstorms forecast for the area and the game ended in a deluge of rain, no?

Good point, actually.

It is possible that I'm just trying to block memories of all the "talent" that we had come through our own system to arrive in the bigs and only watch them poop all over themselves.

Vince Coleman

Who we actually traded Kevin McReynolds for....ROFL


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Coleman

McReynolds is my all time most hated Royal. He was terribad.

Remember when Mark Quinn failed to walk in 1000 at bats, then when he walked they set off the fireworks at the K...

yes

I would put Johnny Giavotella in place of Yuni. His defense is just as bad and his bat has been worse. Plus Yuni's natural position is SS, he's only made 55 starts at 2b in his career vs. 950 at SS.

I picked Mark Davis instead. In 1986 with had both Cy Young Winners (Sabes and Davis) on our pitching staff.

I remember this story because I was painting my house and was listening to the Royals. I think Hal McRae was manager. Anyway, we had a double header with Milwaukee. They send Mark Davis out to start. He gives up like six or seven runs in the first inning. McRae pulls him and tells him to get ready, because he's going to start game two of the double header because he only pitched an inning. Between games, Davis decides to shave off his beard and moustache. So in game two, a newly clean shaven Davis strides to the mound...

And proceeds to give up five runs in the first inning of the second game.

Gets bounced to the bullpen, and never starts again.

On a side note, I was at the game where Mazzaro gave up 13 runs to Cleveland in one inning. Kyle Davies started that game, btw....

Kirk Gibson.

Remember when Posnanski was doing a town hall with Costas, and someone asked them why they thought run-scoring was up in MLB, and someone in the audience yelled, "Bottalico!!!"

Bob Hamelin was pretty awful except for that 1 year.

All suck team for me would be

Shane Costa
Joey Gathright
Rick Ankiel

Doug Menkevich
Yuni betencourt
Tony Pena JR
Rueben Gotay

Kelly Stinnett

You sure about that? We signed Mark Davis after he won the Cy Young as the closer for San Diego for the same role here. Which he stunk at.

Brandon Berger
Mike Aviles
Scott Podsednick

Well, he was American League Rookie of the Year. That's why I gave him a pass. Same reason I didn't consider Aw-Hell B-error-A.

Or was that after he lost the closer role?

Yes.

At that point, he had failed as a closer, so they were trying him in the rotation. Like Hoch now, they were paying him big bucks for the time, and wanted to find a use for him. After he failed as a starter, they put him in spot relief, but never as a closer again. When he got to KC, he was just a poster child for failure.

Remember Kerry Robinson going back tooo the track climbing the fence and having the ball bounce on the warning track. Grimsley getting hit in the face by ken harvey throwing home. Sweeney getting hit in the back by a cutoff throw. Ken Harvey getting hit in the back by a cut off throw.

Jim Eisenreich kinda creeped me out......but he was an ok utility player.

Eisenreich had Torets syndrome and had to tell the umpires that if he cussed at him it was because of his disease. He was a great ball player from the land of Minnisota.

heh, i remember telling friends "Jeremy Giambi" is gonna be huge!

Mark Davis career stats with Royals:
3 years,
9-13 record. Started 14 games.
Had 7 saves in three years.
5.31 ERA
In 168 innings pitched, gave up 168 hits, 139 Ks, 119 walks.
And they paid him around $9 million dollars in 1990's money.

I was wrong about his years here. It was 1990-1992.
Sabes won 2 Cy Youngs as a Royal, 1985 and 1989.
So in 1990, we had both Cy Young winners.

Yea,i know.....but people with Torets creep me out and i have a nephew that has it....sorry for the offends....

David Howard and Jim Pittsley have to be on the horrid list somewhere.

How about favorite Royals who weren't very good?

I loved Mike McDougle...Rusty Meachem, too.

Bob Hamelin was awesome.

Warren Cromartie
Hubie Brooks

This is an easy one. Ken Harvey!

Nominations for the all washed-up team:

Bill Buckner
Pat Tabler
Wally Joyner
Greg Jeffries
Jason Kendall
Benito Santiago

Aaron "streetfighter" Guiel

Limatime

Didn't we used to have some monstrous black guy who crushed 500 foot bombs 1% of the time but sucked the other 99%? I feel like he had three names and came from the Reds...

Glenallen Hill

HerpeTime!

doesn't look like he played for the Royals but he was a monstrous black guy who fit that exact description

Might have come from the Red Sox...

I might be thinking of Wily Mo Pena. Didn't we sign him at one point?

Clint Hurdle was the first big draft bust i remember. Ive still got his rookie card somewhere

Calvin Pickering?

sounds about right

Did Mike Jacobs have a black brother?

I'm enjoying this trip down memory lane.

How about "best season by a Royal that nobody remembers"? I'll nominate Dean Palmer 1998. .278/34/119

Gary Gaetti 1995. .261/35/96

Jay Bell 1997: .291/21/92

Those are good ones.
Here's other nominees that haven't been mentioned yet for the All Washed Up Team:

Gary Gaetti
Jose Guillen
Gaylord Perry
Rick Ankiel
Floyd Bannister
Mike Boddicker
Bob Boone
Orlando Cepeda
Terry Pendleton
Tommy Davis
Bucky Dent
Jeff Francis
Greg Gagne
Tony Graffanino
Gregg Jeffries
Jeff King
Jose Lima
Ron Mahay
Jerry Martin
Lee May
Keith Miller
Hal Morris
Hideo Nomo
Vada Pinson
Sidney Ponson
Mark Redman
Bombo Rivera
Juan Samuel
George Scott
Matt Stairs
Brett Tomko

Oh, and on my all time stinky starters, you have to give a thought to the immortal Eduardo Villacis, and his one start in Yankee Stadium.

Jay Bell 1997. .291/21/92

Lima's wife had the best balcony in baseball...

Several of those guys were far from washed up.