|
![]() |
||
.
Join Date: Dec 2002
Casino cash: $57156239
|
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:
Last edited by alnorth; 06-23-2012 at 10:54 PM.. |
|
Posts: 36,130
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#2131 |
Stroking to the SB Champs!
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Flatlands of Kansas
Casino cash: $-331038
|
2012 Royals Baseball - Over-hyped, Under-staffed.......Business as usual
__________________
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Posts: 40,898
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#2132 |
Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Blue Springs, MO
Casino cash: $-1734695
|
Is the new pitching coach taking any heat over this mess? Aren't all of our losses, but one, the result of poor pitching? I understand we don't have the horses, but we have enought to not be this embarrassing.
|
Posts: 2,045
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#2133 | |
stax of wax
Join Date: Feb 2004
Casino cash: $10004900
|
Quote:
Jesus I'm becoming blowfish/UFC.... ![]() ![]()
__________________
![]() courtesy of BoneKrusher "Baseball? It's just a game. As simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, a business and sometimes a religion." Ernie Harwell |
|
Posts: 34,865
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#2134 |
Be Kind To Your Pets
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Glorious Independence, MO
Casino cash: $16896178
![]() |
|
Posts: 41,011
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#2135 | |
stax of wax
Join Date: Feb 2004
Casino cash: $10004900
|
Quote:
![]()
__________________
![]() courtesy of BoneKrusher "Baseball? It's just a game. As simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, a business and sometimes a religion." Ernie Harwell |
|
Posts: 34,865
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#2136 |
BOOM!1!
Join Date: Aug 2004
Casino cash: $6755541
|
I'll be at the game tomorrow evening.
Sweet! Let us hope for a competitve game. At least for one inning. |
Posts: 19,219
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#2137 |
Mod Team
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Valley of the hot as ****
Casino cash: $-1358100
|
Still early and I think we are better than this, but when do we push the panic button? Not a great time to be playing the Tigers.
|
Posts: 46,300
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#2138 |
Stroking to the SB Champs!
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Flatlands of Kansas
Casino cash: $-331038
|
I don't think it's Panic, it's just the reality that this is extremely shaky starting pitching, capable of doing better, but more prone to really bad innings that are difficult to overcome. We were all hoping to squeeze some blood (pitching success) out of the turnip, but the reality is that turnip's don't have blood.
__________________
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Posts: 40,898
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#2139 |
MVP
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Helena, MT
Casino cash: $1368849
|
Paging Alnorth for a game thread!
|
Posts: 18,647
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#2140 |
MVP
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Helena, MT
Casino cash: $1368849
|
Moose has to be the front runner for a gold glove at 3b.
|
Posts: 18,647
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#2141 |
.
Join Date: Dec 2002
Casino cash: $57156239
|
Glass half full:
Our young players are all going through their sophomore slumps all at once, right now. We'll be awesome in 2013.
__________________
|
Posts: 36,130
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#2142 |
Woman should only make babies
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Apartment "G UNIT!"
Casino cash: $-193864
|
David Glass Full of Money
__________________
![]() |
Posts: 54,933
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#2143 | |
MVP
Join Date: Nov 2008
Casino cash: $10084719
|
Quote:
All our young players turn out to be shit and get rid of everyone and start the rebuild all over again! Hurray! |
|
Posts: 6,739
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#2144 |
World's finest morphius
Join Date: Aug 2000
Casino cash: $5845027
|
every time this team starts to look enjoyable one year, they follow it up with a complete collapse at the beginning of the next season.
Oh, how this city knows how to disenfranchise the fans.... |
Posts: 26,022
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#2145 |
stax of wax
Join Date: Feb 2004
Casino cash: $10004900
|
The Royals are almost as bad (or maybe good?) at it as the Chiefs.
__________________
![]() courtesy of BoneKrusher "Baseball? It's just a game. As simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, a business and sometimes a religion." Ernie Harwell |
Posts: 34,865
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() |
|
|