I vote no as well and I think the majority are in agreement. He posts baseball news we don't care about and then trolls us telling us how shitty the Royals are, when in fact most of us know that.

It really would allow those of us who watch this team to have civilized conversations with people who have factual baseball knowledge.

I really appreciate you guys looking at this and banning him from Royals threads.

I think banning him from any thread created with a Royals prefix would be good but don't know if that type of limiting can be done?

Anyone with no life and a computer can regurgitate twatter posts. That guy is a worthless douche and is clearly not wanted by either the Chiefs or Royals fanbases.

That would be so awesome.

Rejected.

Collins is infuriatingly inconsistent.

Can't be done automatically without a motivated code-monkey or resources to hire one. I don't think dumping from this one was too much to ask but you might have difficulty getting a mod to ban him from every game thread.

He is a piece of shit who does nothing but bash te Royals. He is a loser who should've been banned from Royals threads long ago. Do any of you go to an Orioles forum to flame?

Maybe Yost should stop using him like he's a goddamned lefty specialist when he has better splits against righties. Not that that is an excuse for walking two dudes in a row.

Duffy went off on royals fans tonight on twitter. What a Winston

Ok you can't just say that without a link or posting the tweets.

He has been pretty good against lefties this year, but I think that's a fluke more than anything else.

Collins' command has been spotty of late, and it's killing them. Same with Crow. Those two need to turn it around, and quickly.

Keep the guy out. He is a douche and highly annoying.

Plus, seeing his butt hurt in other threads is pretty hilarious.

When we lost last night I felt the season might be wrapping up soon. They have to go 3-3 these next two weeks in the Cleveland games. If they lose ground they aren't coming back. We're just not a very good team, it's time we deal with reality. We are 6.5 back of Cleveland but only 5 ahead of Chicago in last. So we're closer to last than to first.

We're going nowhere and it's time to listen to Santana offers.

5.5 back.

Ok then, equidistant from first to last. Same deal.

Exactly.

This is an important series. The Royals need to pick up at least one game (take 2/3). That is still possible.

Losing the first game and saying the season is over is an extreme overreaction. But that's the specialty of some individuals.

We appear to be treading water, and just barely. Cleveland sweeps us, and seals our fate.

Cabrera having problems Verlander not being the stud he is. This division is wide open.

ROFL O's banned from thread

ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFL He's begging to be let back

Late to the party, but a ban on C&O's fan from this thread is appropriate. If we could just ban him from the entire site, that would be great, but I realize that is asking too much.

This thread feels so..... clean.

Love that not a single person posted in here saying they wanted C&O back. He's one of those people that you just know is definitely as annoying in real life, as he is on here.

Anibal Sanchez is back in the Tigers rotation Saturday night against the Indians.

Given his twitter addiction and lack of a real life, I always pictured him as a dorky high school kid with no friends.

Sorry I was mobile then...here is a summary...he blocked me and other fans that disagreed. He's very sensitive on Twitter and looks for tweets against royals but pointed out 1 guy who is a great royals twitter follow. Attached tweets that may have started Duffys beef...these tweets are deleted now I think. @KCKingdomFS Not sure if you saw this, but I think this had a lot to do with Duffy's comments. https://mobile.twitter.com/LeviPayto...014016/photo/1


http://kckingdom.com/?p=3922

The biggest difference between this year and last year is that the bullpen is being used less. Maybe they needed all that use to keep them sharp. Let's move to the four-man rotation consisting of Shields/Santana/Guthrie/Duffy and cap their pitches at say, 90 - to help keep the bullpen sharp. What say you duncan? :hmmm:

Read the daily hit list from baseball prospectus for day and I thought to myself: "This author must be a Royals fan." Because this was his comment for the Royals: "The Royals got a grand slam from Alex Gordon and lost anyway because they're the Royals."

I think the days of the 4-man rotation are probably a thing of the past. With how much $$ is invested in pitchers, teams are going to do everything they can to keep starters fresh.

I'd stick with the 5-man rotation in a few weeks, rotating in Danny Duffy for Wade Davis.

I'd move Davis to the pen to solidify things a bit. I'd identify my LOOGY (probably Will Smith), and stick to using him as that. I'd DFA JC Gutierrez and Call up Louis Coleman. Collins goes down to work on FB command.

Roles:

CLoser: Holland
Clean inning: (Used in medium or long relief at start of innings) Chen, Hochevar
LOOGY: Will Smith
ROOGY: Louis Coleman
8th inning options: Crow, Davis

We really need Herrera to get his act together. Our bullpen fell apart when he got sent down. (not that I disagree with sending hom down, we just need another arm desperately)

Why do people want to DFA Gutierrez. He has been pretty damn good.

as soon as we are completely out of it several players will start playing better

Alex Grand Slams and Jamaal Charles 100 yard rushing games..

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Because I think he isn't that good and doesn't have a long-term future in KC. I didn't realize he hasn't allowed an earned run since June 2.

It's probably time to use him in some higher leverage situations, then. Considering the rest of the pen's performance.

He's not a Royal's fan then. If he actually watched the game, and look at the stats, he would know that batting Escobar at 2nd is not recommended, and that Yost had to pull Hoch for Collins.

The author can go fist himself.

Had a couple "let him back" votes via rep but it was overwhelmingly against. He's gone. Enjoy.

Provide the names of the "let him back" votes so we can begin NEG mission!

ROFL

But seriously, thanks. Much better without him here.

Because people don't want to call Crow a turd even though he is one

My bad.

I bet Hootie was one LMAO

Ill be that guy now.

@Royals: We are now looking at a 9:00 first pitch. #RoyalsWeather

:spock:

Please eliminate the people who had him "let him back" votes, thank you in advance.

We're trying to control the dumbassery to a minimum here, ya know?

Two questions:
1) Were patteeu and SaulGood the whiteknights?
2) Did pos or neg rep win?

Well hell, people, why don't you just ask Phil to post the traitorous rep comments (along with mug shots of course) at the post office?

Jesus Christ.

When they incriminate themselves, it really doesn't have to be publicized. It must be tough going through life without being able to recognize a joke.

Had a Cards fan tell me Royals fans are the worst in the major leagues because of booing Cano last year during the HR derby.

So that's nice.

@randomfaketweet Royals stalker ChiefsandO'sfan has been taken to a local Baltimore Hospital to receive treatment to a burn that was inflicted on him in the Chiefsplanet Royals thread. He is labeled as being day-to-day.

Heh. I had more neg rep than pos. Dicks.

As the Trade Deadline approaches on July 31 at 3 p.m. CT, the names of players coming up on free agency always surface in speculation and that group will include pitcher Ervin Santana, who's been very good in his first year with Kansas City.

"I mean, we need him, too. We're trying to win games," Moore said. "We expect to win games, we believe in our team. We need to make sure we're running out a quality starting pitcher every single night and Erv's done as well as anybody we've run out there."



Sounds like the Royals are going to be buyers at the break. :clap:

I take that quote moreso as we wont be sellers, not necessarily that we'll be buyers. Hope you're right though

who will likely start in Left field?

Gordon shouldn't be out long, but I'd like to see what Seratelli can do

Greg Holland's first 4 appearances this year: 3 IP, 5 hits, 4 ER, 6 BB, 5 K

Since then: 28 IP, 14 hits, 3 ER, 5 BB, 47 K. Holy mother of God.

Pfffft. Johnson is better.

Doesn't matter when Collins is giving games away.

ELITE closer performance right there. That's the type of line Kimbrel was putting up the last two seasons.

Fairweather fan letting the media tell him what to think? No way.

Not so sure about fairweather. The Cards have had a pretty steady climate for awhile now.

I'd say get back to us when your team is insignificant for nearly 30 years

Busch Stadium would be a ****ing morgue. **** those cock suckers!

what's the lineup look like without Gordon?

Haven't seen it, but if I would have to guess:

Dyson CF
Escobar SS
Hosmer 1b
Butler DH
Grown Ass Man C (If he plays) If not, Cain
Cain RF
Moose 3b
Gio 2b (If Salvy doesn't play, then Kotteras C goes here)
Lough RF

Don't see how you can't be impressed as hell with Royals fans.

Someone better get on the game day thread!

Huge, rubber match today!

Come on Shields. Need you to bring your A++++ game today to take the series from those Indian ****s.

On it!

my bad. I didn't see the one -King- started this am.

:(

I was one because...

1. I knew he would be voted out anyway.
2. I somehow managed to ignore the ramblings of an idiot.

**** him. It's easy to be a fan of a winning franchise.

The schedule doesn't get any easier....but this team seems to have some mojo of late.

Tomorrow the Tigers go to Cleveland to start a four game series

We creep closer to .500.

Just dropping in to report that Kottaras is currently batting .157 with a .710 OPS.

Carry on.

This. We've been there through absolute garbage for the past 25+ years. It's easy to be a fan of a winning program.

Apparently the home run derby is sacred.. Or something.

Didn't the Orioles get swept by the White Sux?

2013 Payrolls And Salaries For Every MLB Team
BARRY PETCHESKY
3/29/13 11:02am

It's that time of the year. Time to unveil MLB's opening day payrolls, and laugh at the teams spending like drunkards (Yankees, $229 million) and the ones fielding quadruple-A rosters (Astros, $24 million). Let's dive in.

Click on the cities in the map above for each roster's individual player salaries. (If you have trouble finding the annotation, just search this page for the team name, and you'll find it in the discussion section below. You can also search for individual players' names.) http://deadspin.com/2013-payrolls-an...team-462765594

Here's the list of total team payrolls (the figure is the adjusted payroll, which takes into account cash received in trades, prorated signing bonuses, and other tweaks):

New York Yankees $228,995,945
Los Angeles Dodgers $216,302,909
Philadelphia $159,578,214
Boston $158,967,286
Detroit $149,046,844
San Francisco $142,180,333
Los Angeles Angels $142,165,250
Texas $127,197,575
Chicago White Sox $124,065,277
Toronto $118,244,039
St. Louis $116,702,085
Washington $112,431,770
Cincinnati $110,565,728
Chicago Cubs $104,150,726
Baltimore $91,793,333
Milwaukee $91,003,366
Arizona $90,158,500
Atlanta $89,288,193
New York Mets $88,877,033
Seattle $84,295,952
Cleveland $82,517,300
Kansas City $80,491,725
Minnesota $75,562,500
Colorado $75,449,071
San Diego $71,689,900
Oakland $68,577,000
Pittsburgh $66,289,524
Tampa Bay $57,030,272
Miami $39,621,900
Houston $24,328,538

Takeaways: A-Rod will make more than the Astros. The Dodgers will likely pass the Yankees for the top spot next year. Miami cut its payroll from last season by more than 60 percent. The Blue Jays will field $37 million worth of Marlins. Arizona's highest-paid player is a setup guy. Among the NL favorites, the Braves, Nationals, and Reds all show the importance of home-grown pitching—while the Giants have reached the phase where they've had to pay top-dollar to keep their aces.

Astros manager Bo Porter had this to say:

"When we get on the baseball field with whomever the opponent is, they are not sitting there saying: `Well, their players make more money than us so therefore you're deemed a winner and we're deemed a loser.'"

This is true. It's also true that Houston could lose 110 games this year.