Congratulations Royals fans. Hope my Giants can meet you in the world series.

30.3 tv rating for the game in Kansas City last night.

Did you hear Dayton Moore.

He said quote for quote about Finnegan " He saved our season."

Probably already been discussed but I missed it last night.


What was the deal with Hosmers potential double down the 1st base side that got taken away? It looked like it touched the first basemans glove first?

Complete, utter, UNACCEPTABLE bullshit missed call.

I got to watch that this morning. In a matchup this big, TBS/MLB had no cameras angles covering the 1B/3B lines? I found that a little odd.

Did you see Finnegan pitch against Moss? Leaving Shields in against Moss was not an option.

Two options there: Duffy or Finnegan.

But, classic Ned. Terrible with his bullpen.

Not happening.

****in announcer said it was "the right call". I was like "WHAAAAAT??!!"

I was going to ask this as well. Hootie's response was almost verbatim what I said when it happened last night.

Ripken should have cock punched the guy that said that.

He kept trying to justify the call by say that his almost his entire body went into foul territory.

Yes it did. AFTER his glove touched the ball in FAIR territory.

I don't know who that guy was, but he was terrible. The Lester cum guzzling after they took the 4 run lead was even worse.

Man. I was at the game last night so I didn't get to take part in this thread.

Just wanna say kudos to everyone that did. I just read back through the highlights and I found myself reliving all of the emotion that we had in the stadium. It was just incredible.

Reading over this, I laughed, I got teary-eyed, I got angry. You guys are the best commentators in sports.

Favorite quote after the win, "My undies are pregnant!"

Yeah no kidding. It's like, we get it. Lester is good. **** off now.

Ned is terrible, but I can't fault him much for the Ventura decision. You have been touting going to Ventura in the pen the entire year so far.

If they would have gone with Finnegan, people would have freaked out saying you can't go with a guy that is so unproven and was playing in college just months ago.

If he would have went with Duffy everybody would be saying you can't depend on a guy that is just coming back from an injury. Who had just pitched recently. Ventura had just pitched recently as well, and he was allowed a low pitch count to give him availability for the AL Wild Card game.

Personally, I would have used Duffy assuming we are confident on his health. Shields was struggling and you get two on and want to get someone in the game that can get some strikeouts and give you the best chance to get out of the inning. Ventura pitches well against LH batters and has given up the least amount of HR's of any starter. People that clamor for using Herrera, well Ventura has a HIGHER K rate than Herrera even though is a reliever. I have no qualms with it whatsoever. If it would have worked you guys wouldn't be saying a ****ing thing.

From page 38 on is just ****ing awesome.

Bwillie...

Moss has never hit lefties well. You use a lefty against Moss 10 times out of 10 in that situation.

WAY TO GO BRUISER!

Memo to Chiefs from your friends across the parking lot at the K:

You may now go and win a post-season game without the mounting pressure of ending the city's playoff win drought. We are happy to help. And you are welcome.

- Sincerely...the Royals

Where I was
 

What a game

LMAO

Does a one game play-in count? I thought they'd have to win a series to get that monkey off the city's back.

The wild card in baseball is a one game series. They won the one game series. Therefore, I'm unsure as to the point you're making.

Yeah, going with a rookie starter that has 1 relief appearance in his career, 2 on no out, in the biggest game for this franchise in 30 years. Sounds like a great idea.

Nerves/experience aside, he is a righty who had to face a lefty...who had already crushed our starter earlier in the game. Ideally you would have a lefty with experience getting out of jams, but just one of those would do and Ventura is neither.

Oh, it counts

If you're tired after, you should have adopted the strategy of the guy on the right.

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He paid pretty damn good money to take a nap there.

Yes, you can.

Young,rookie pitcher not used to being used in relief ... not used to any playoff situations and you bring in a pure relief situation. If you bring in Ventura at the beginning of an inning ... clean, it one thing.

Our bullpen is one of the best in baseball and Yost pulls this stupid shit.

Leave Shields in ... go straight to Davis

Davis can pitch 2 innings. Herrera or Ventura in at the beginning of the 8th.

Holland for the ninth

Not to mention that double steal debacle

Yost is mediocre coach.

He's only redeeming quality is that his players like him. A happy clubhouse is good but still.

btw Salvy has to get over swinging at every low pitch he sees.

This is baseball, not golf.

I'm pretty sure that is an oxymoron.

That's not going to happen. Salvy loves digging pitches out. It's his thing. Maybe it can be corrected, but I'd guess at this point he might just be a bad-ball hitter.

But fanning at every slider that comes within three feet of the plate is annoying as ****.

The Chiefs would only have to win one game. :shrug:

And the Royals did their best to cram 7 games of drama into one last night.

It's not a play-in game. It's officially the MLB postseason.

It definitely counts.

Salvy desperately needs to develop a better batting eye...and someone needs to throw Gordon a million breaking balls low and away so he learns to lay off of those suckers

That's awesome

Ventura is no more of a rookie than Kelvin Herrera. Herrera only has a slight amount more innings than Ventura even though he's been around for 4 years. Not all rookies are created equal. I don't buy the rookie thing at all, unless it's like their 3rd or 4th game played or something. After that, you are a professional. You've played baseball your entire life, nothing has changed.

Like I said, I would have preferred Duffy, but I can certainly see why Yost went with Ventura. Absolutely. Ventura actually does induce alot of ground balls AND has the most strikeouts of any starter on the team. He also just came off of the longest innings pitched without a HR streak in the majors. He's let up the LEAST amt of home runs of ANY starting pitcher on the Royals. Based on his career splits, he actually pitches well to left handed batters, better than Shields. Just as good if not better than Herrera. And, combine the fact that he should be MORE EFFICIENT as a reliever than as a starter, ESPECIALLY with his gas and stuff, it's not a bad decision. Look at Hochevar and Davis. All mediocre starters, but very good in the bullpen. A starter will be even MORE efficient as a reliever. I don't buy the argument, he's not a reliever, so you don't use him bullshit. Hoch and Davis were immediately great in the pen when they were demoted.

Yost going to Ventura - a guy with little relieving experience and no experiencing coming out of the pen with men already on base - when he had two dynamic lefty options in that pen is just ****ing criminal.

It's an egregiously terrible decision on several levels.

First, it puts a talented but young pitcher in a completely unusual situation, which makes the moment more challenging. Pitchers and especially starters are creatures of habit. The more experience they have, the more they can overcome being outside normal habits.

Second, it completely ignores the fact that Oakland had its 4-5-6 guys coming up, and all three are RH killers. If you go to the pen there, you HAVE to go get a lefty.

Third, he was willing to go to Herrera that inning and willing to let him pitch two innings. Makes going to Ventura first look even worse.

Fourth, considering Brandon Finnegan dominated the Oakland lineup through an entire turn through the batting order - and handled Brandon Moss with ease - shows in-game evidence that he should have been the call.

Yea and how did that work out for you and Yost?

stupid mofo almost flush the season away


maybe Yost will try a mythical triple steal against the Angels and you can cheer his 6-ways of stupid ass then too.

Caption this pic
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Uncle!!! Uncle!!!!

Nix: "I LOVE MEXICANS!!!"

Sal: (translated from his native language) "I'M NOT MEXICAN, YOU NON-HITTING **** NUGGET!!!"

Sal: My dick is this big....

Kratz: **** you, MY dick is THIS big...

Sal: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Kratz: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

That's Kratz not Nix you guys

reminds of The replacements when the cop chases the kicker.



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I won't make a big stink about it but 1) there are zero game threads in there at the moment - they're not that entertaining to read really, and 2) this isn't a Royals forum. Just my opinion.

We should rename it to Royals Planet, at least temporarily, if you ask me!!!! =)

Thanks for the bookmark. I was actually going to go all the way back and read the whole damned thing. I figured it would be that good.

BTW, I'm going Friday night with my son. The moment I saw Vargas listed, I made the call.

I'm going to get as many of their rally towels and desecrate them in the parking lot.

I HATE the Angels. Hate them. George vs. Oakland kind of hatred.

Kratz: "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

Perez: "UNBEREBABOL!"

One of these days I am going to go through and read this thread from the sixth inning on. It must be insanely epic drama.

Rereading this from page 38 per Pest's suggestion was just beautiful. Brought tears to my eyes!

Did Donger come back after his "this is boring" comment?

Yeah if they put this one in, they'll have to go back and include all the playoff victories the Chiefs and Royals have had since CP began. Oh wait...

http://www.fangraphs.com/wins.aspx?d...=0&season=2014

The Win Probability chart from last night...

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/how-j...e-of-his-life/

Cool article about all the stolen bases and how Jarrod figured out Doolittle's "tell".

Yes, way to go, you stayed away and it was enjoyable!:thumb:o:-)


Hell yes, all of this, all the damn time!

It's a no brainer. Ned has no brain, I'm trying to figure out he missed this ?

Great game last night, boys. I'll never forget it (and never would have believed the storyline had I not seen it with my own eyes).

Watched the last inning or so from bed, which is why I checked out from the thread, but had a hell of a time posting with many of the regulars. Good times.

I've been re-watching the game tonight. One thing I must say.

I'd like to bend Mila Kunis over a barrel of Jim Beam and enjoy a stiff one!

Bent which way?

Yes.

Solid advice...

:thumb: I'd love to take pics and post it in the dinner thread.

She's food, soul food at that...

She gave birth in the past 24 hours, sooooooo, . . . sloshy.

Welp, NL wild card game turned out to be a complete dud

:hmmm:

A bad one.

I want to know...have you forgiven him yet?

ESPN is crying about it.

poor plate discipline=win!

I watched the game again tonight. So awesome.

all you white folk look alike

I understand your valid points. I think the 2011 Cardinals one with the game 6 in it is fantastic. Hamas and Frazod comments, lots of Royals fans posting etc. Its not there.

I think the first playoff game in 29 years, the volume of posters on this site that were emotionally moved with the win overrules the just a game thread argument.

I don't think anyone has complained about me running the HOC. Seems to me that the correct decisions have been made so far. If anyone else thinks I'm wrong on moving this to the HOC, let me know. If I'm off base on this, it won't go.

C'mon man...the HOC includes a thread called "I ****ed a Tranny Last Night." So, this isn't exactly like appointing sainthood....

And just because the CP does Royals better than most of the Royals only dedicated sites, that just makes this place stronger.

Put it in!

This thread, the thread created in 2034 when the Chiefs finally win a playoff game, and any world championship game thread are the only ones that should go into the Hall.

Off the front page. You Royals fans done with this thread?

Stay Classic Kansas City

Contrary to Hootie, it's not blackbob either.