so if and when yost is yosted, we all know that jason kendall is the next manager and all. but as i was listening to uncle hud, he mentioned ozzie guillen.
what's that dirty bastard up to nowadays?
i didn't like him when he was the chi sux manager, but i'll admit, that crazy sumbitch would light a fire under his players, that's for sure.

oh, and moar power moooooooooosetacos!

He's probably recycled it a few times this season to be honest. This was from a Phil Rogers article I just read on mlb.com

Game tomorrow is not on FSKC, but will be on WGN.

Just FYI.

And day game for those of us who leave the house to go to work everyday.

Ozzie got the boot for liking Fidel Castro.

Well Fidel developed talent better than Dayton Moore .

ZING!!!!!!!

Lol. Nice!

Well played, sir. You win comment of the day . . .

Since telling his teammates to look in the mirror, Alex Gordon has reached base six times in his nine plate appearances.

Reminds me of the line from 'Rudy' where the coach tells him "I wish I could put your heart in my players bodies . . . . "

Ozzie and Ned are probably two of the most opposite people ever.

Ned worries about players' domes.

Ozzie gives no ****s about a players dome.

I'd take Ozzie. He can bring Fidel with him for all I care, if he can light some fire under these wusses.

I couldn't resist posting this:
This gameday preview has a great (terrible) quote from Ned Yost.

Royals manager Ned Yost questioned himself for pulling Shields in the sixth inning, with his club holding a 4-3 lead and a runner on second with two outs. Jonny Gomes, pinch-hitting for Jackie Bradley Jr., hit a go-ahead two-run homer off lefty reliever Scott Downs.

"I should have stuck with Shields to get us through that inning. He was at 111 pitches [actually, 112], Bradley was 0-for-2 off him, and I just outsmarted myself," Yost said.

No, Ned, you insufferable moron. YOu should not have stuck with Shields. You stuck with Shields too long. You should have had a reliever up as soon as he started getting crushed in that inning (At least at the Bogaerts HR. instead, you waited until Stephen Drew crushed a 2B to start warming a guy up).

Pulling Shields there was absolutely fine.

Your cluster-eff up was not in pulling Shields. It was in allowing Downs to pitch to Gomes. You should have either burned Downs and replaced him with Herrera (which the rules allow you to do because of the pinch hitter) or WALKED Gomes to set up a force AND pitch lefty on lefty.

Just doesn't get it...

Truth

He's too stupid to outsmart himself.

Results of MLB competitive balance draft lottery announced

Don't quite get it.

Bad luck for the Royals. Basically, they take the 10 smallest markets and 10 smallest payrolls and put them in a lottery pot. 6 teams get a comp. pick between rounds 1 and 2. 6 more teams get a comp pick between round 2 and 3. The rest are left out.

KC got left out this time after being granted a pick between rounds 1 and 2 the past two years. This pick is what they used to nab Sean Manaea.

A sweep of the Indians this weekend would be pretty sweet.

Detroit traded for Joakim Soria. :(

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Meh

3 of 4 would be nice.

A couple seasons ago Soria and Joe Nathan together would be like having Wade and Holland together.

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Speaking of the competitive balance picks... Corey Knebel was the first comp. balance pick to make it to the major leagues.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/ar...rticleid=24223

This is a really interesting story about the Astros and there contract issues with Brady Aiken, the number 1 overall pick this year that didn't sign. It's long but it's pretty good insight if you like that stuff.

SI also did a long piece about this as well.

Basically, that medical report must be awful. We'll never know because of HIPPA regulations, exactly what was found, but it had to be a disaster for them to sacrifice basically their entire draft this season as a result.

I expect to be hearing that Aiken's season at UCLA has been cut short due to season-ending surgery pretty shortly.

This piece expresses my feelings to a T:

http://www.royalsauthority.com/do-so...-dayton-moore/

What's even more disgusting is, our starting pitching may never much better than it is right now. Eventually we'll need MORE offense to overcome mediocre pitching.

I think Kansas City is doomed to always have teams that are out of balance.

We are just a bullpen arm away. Lets go get Bastardo so we can strengthen the pen! The hitting will come around. /DM

We need to keep games close to pad those one-run-loss stats.

Then Dayton can spend the winter arguing we were THIS close to winning 90+ games, and we will get over the hump as soon as 3/4 of our lineup starts hitting the way he knows they can.

That's one of the challenges of being a small market team. Have to have excellent work from the front office to fill as many holes as possible, and back that up with excellent work from the manager to cover holes/limit their impact on the field.

Basically, you need Joe Maddon+Andrew Friedman.

You need Terry Ryan+Tom Kelly or Ron Gardenhire

I think that's one of the things that has held Beane back in Oakland... he's never really had that top-flight manager.

Jim Johnson was just released by Oakland.

That's comedy gold right there.

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

Bring him in for a look?

FYP

Still better than Holland!

People on here wanted him, no?

Clearly Oakland, the best team in the majors really doesn't have a clue what they're doing.

I didn't want him, no.

No
Quite the opposite, chiefsandosfan tried coming in here and telling us Jim Johnson was better than Greg Holland like last year.

Why are they getting rid of a former "best closer in the majors"?

Future HOFer. Idiots.

I'd be surprised if this move doesn't cost Billy Beane his job

Can we trade Belly for him now?

The Orioles have acquired infielder/outfielder Jimmy Paredes from the Royals in exchange for cash considerations, the team announced. Paredes, who had been designated for assignment by the O’s last week, has been optioned to Triple-A Norfolk.

This isn’t the first time that Baltimore has shown interest in Paredes, as they briefly claimed him off waivers from the Marlins this offseason before losing him on waivers to the Royals just a couple of days later.

Paredes went from the Astros to the Marlins to the Orioles to the Royals on waivers this offseason and ultimately received just 10 plate appearances (which yielded a pair of singles) for Kansas City’s big league club. Most of his season was spent at Omaha, where he produced a strong .305/.332/.457 batting line in 280 plate appearances.

As a career .306/.343/.468 hitter that bats from both sides of the plate and can play multiple positions, it’s not surprising that Paredes continues to find clubs willing to give him a 40-man roster spot. However, he’s yet to produce in 406 big league plate appearances, having totaled just a .233/.272/.308 batting line.

Hopefully Hosmer's hand injury forces them to go get a bat in the outfield.

Cash considerations = A Subway footlong coupon.

Yeah, still what is their hot/cold obsession with this guy?

Coupons only redeemable in the Subways that are located inside Wal-Mart though.

GMDM just needs another five years. Be patient. What's wrong with you people???

Really nothing except for I don't want to be 1,826 days older before seeing the Royals in a postseason game.

I've got bad news for you. It would actually be about 1,894 days, since the playoffs don't start in July.

a curse upon your house!
(even though you are right. )

Mariners just traded for Kendrys Morales.

As we run Aoki out there at the DH spot tonight

Morales has been ****ing horrible. 1 HR and a .584 OPS in 150AB's.

He may turn it around and as hard as it may seem to believe he makes this shitting hitting team a worse shitty hitting team.

Kendrys Morales=Billy Butler... except fatter, and slower, and with a major and partially crippling ankle injury in his background.

No way - Billy has his own line of BBQ sauce. How dare you.

Danny Duffy since June 1 - 10 Starts, 63 IP, 1.86 ERA, 0.98 WHIP, 52 Ks, 3-5 record.

This offense just absolutely pisses me off. Guy is pitching out of his mind consistenly and the best he can get is a no decision most nights.

Is there a chance he gets into the AL Cy Young conversation?

That conversation begins and ends with King Felix at this point. I don't think Duffy's total innings qualifies him yet either.

yeah, and if he falls off a cliff, it'll be Chris Sale.

Duffy might possibly qualify by the end of the year, so if by "in the conversation" we mean "we'd be talking about these guys if the top 2 didn't exist" then yeah, he'd be in that conversation for 3rd place.

Possibly the most accurate gif response ever. Rep

Shitty time for Sal, Moose and Billy Ray to go yard. GMDM is confident that "we're good"

I think i may be in the minority but i think our playoff position is so tenuous that making a big trade is probably a bad idea. If we were in 1st and looking forward to the divisional series sure, but not now. I also don't want to sell because with a decent winter we can still contend in 2015. (Prices are much lower in the winter so trading now for 2015 is dumb) So, i want us to do nothing. If we make the playoffs great but it'll have to be with the flawed players we have like Butler and shields.

Y'all took the shitty Justin Maxwell from us last year and gave up a decent pitching prospect in return. Chris Carter, anyone? :)

Sell Shields

The Royals are not making the playoffs. The math simply isn't in their favor. Therefore, it's asinine not to trade Shields.

Furthermore, Davis isn't coming back as a $7M setup man, so we'll either watch him walk, or the club could actually do something smart: trade Holland.

Move Davis to closer in '15.

Think the Dodgers will bite after the Giants acquired Peavy?

Do they have anything worth trading for?

The Royals literally have to win at a 2-1 clip the rest of the season to guarantee themselves a post season spot. Anything COULD happen, like them making the wild card with 84-85 wins, but what's the odds on that happening? The brutal honesty is that this team just simply does not have the offense as it is constructed now to support winning at a 2-1 clip the rest of the way.

All of this!! :bravo:

They arent selling in the next 5 days. You cant justify it to the fanbase being 2 games out from the wildcard.

This.

Love to have Joc Pederson, but the Dodgers aren't a great fit for the trade.

Would love to see if Taveras could be stolen out of STL for Shields + Holland + a prospect.

Deez, I have to disagree with you when you say, "The Math simply isn't in their favor". The Royals are only two games from the 2nd wild card.
The team that currently has the 2nd wild card is the Yankees. They Yankees have multiple series against the O's which are currently in first place. They also have multiple series against the Jays which were in first until a couple weeks ago. And, they play multiple series against the Rays who have won 8 in a row. To add to that, the Yankees also play 7 games against the Tigers in August. The Royals will either gain on the Yankees or the Tigers.

One game behind the Yankees for the 2nd wild card are the Jays and 1.5 games is Seattle. The blue jays play multiple series against the Yankees, O's, and Rays.
Seattle has multiple games against the A's (which has the best record in baseball) and the Angles (who have the 2nd best record in baseball).

So, based on the math, the Royals are still very much in it.