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2012 Kansas City Royals Repository Thread
2012 Slogan: Our Time
A better, more accurate 2012 Slogan: It is Finally Next Year (from Great Expectations) An alternative slogan if you don't like that one: Someone has to win this crappy division (from alnorth) With the beginning of a new year, it is time for the 2012 version of the Royals Repository Thread. We've got Hosmer, we've got a 2011-dominating Gordon, we've got Moose, we've got hopefully a killer bullpen, we've got a stereotypical slow slugging DH, we've got easily one of the best defensive shortstops in the AL, we've got a promising catcher in Salvador Perez. Hell, we've got offense and promising prospects galore. We do not have starting pitching. Oh yeah, we've also got this: ![]() Get ready for, (as of January 2012 anyway), one of the most confusing puzzles of a baseball season in recent Royals history. Will they suck? Maybe, I don't know. Will we be given a year of 0.500 baseball? Possibly, I don't know. Will they win the division and go to the playoffs for the first time in 27 years? For the first time in a long time, it could happen, I don't know. 92 losses, 92 wins, or anything in between would not surprise a lot of us. Everything goes here except Gameday threads and really big news. If a giant story breaks, the Royals achieve some awesome milestone, or we sign/lose a highly significant player/coach/mascot/whatever, then it might also deserve its own thread. This being Chiefs Planet, please do not clutter the board with new threads about trivial Royals news or you will only annoy those who come here for just Chiefs football. If you aren't sure and its not a Gameday thread, it goes here. What sort of stuff often goes here? SPchief explained it well, so I'll just copy that: Quote:
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This is what's probably going to happen: This story is laying the groundwork for when the Royals sign some FA pitcher, for whatever, it will be seen as "Glass, who's barely scraping by at $57 million, opened up his wallet in the interest of the team and the fans to push the payroll to [$65 million/$70 million/whatever]. You're welcome, Kansas City."
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Kansas fans need not apply.
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Look around the poker table, GMDM.
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And owner pays to field a competitive ballclub and calls anything he spends over and above outright gross receipts 'subsidizing the ballclub'. What an asshole.
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Although as Rany points out, by David Glass's own math, in 2009 AND 2010, the Royals "payroll" was somewhere between $90 and $95 million. Now it's $70 million.
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Jerry Crasnick @jcrasnick
#Royals exploring a group of free agent starters that includes Brett Myers, Kevin Correia and Jair Jurrjens, source says.
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Jerry Crasnick @jcrasnick
#Royalsexploring a group of free agent starters that includes Brett Myers, Kevin Correia and Jair Jurrjens, source says. |
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I knew Dayton would be interested in Jair Jurrjens ... Bah!
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And there it is.
Glass: "Well, OK, folks ... I'll pony up for Myers/Correia/Jurrjens and DESTROY MY BUDGET. Hope y'all have a Merry Christmas -- because mine just got a little smaller, thanks to my generosity." |
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Someone needs to go beat Franceours knee caps because apparantly that's the only way he's not going to start on this team next season.
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