2012 Kansas City Royals Repository Thread

[alnorth]

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:

If you locate something of interest.. ANYTHING.. deals on apparel, best ways in/out of the stadium, giveaways, great stories from this season or from seasons gone by, rumors, trades, anything.... feel free to post it here.

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

That's pretty cool. I wonder if we have any posters here That actually remember that game? LoL

I was 4 years old and do not.

[chefsos]

Originally Posted by Dr. Johnny Fever

I was 4 years old and do not.

wait a minute.. never mind. math fail on my part. Carry on.

Edit, again: I watched it on TV. I remember all the NL guys who rebelled (in a fun way, I guess) against their clubs' rules by wearing white shoes.

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Originally Posted by chefsos

wait a minute.. never mind. math fail on my part. Carry on.

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[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

That's pretty cool. I wonder if we have any posters here That actually remember that game? LoL

*RAISES HAND*

July 24th 1973. Exactly 10 years to the day prior to George Brett's pine tar HR.

I remember it very well. The Oakland A's were such badasses. They had just won their first of three consecutive WS and even though Charlie Finley was a ****wit, he knew how to build a winner. Plus, they had the greatest uni's.

From Catfish breaking his thumb to Reggie's "air" doughnut. I remember most of that game. What that article fails to state is that Bench's HR left the stadium that night. He hit it off the roof of the LF GA concession stand and it bounded out of the stadium. And Bobby Bonds hit a monster shot too.

[BWillie]

Old f***ing balls in here

[mr. tegu]

4 game series starts at the Twinkies tonight. We need to win three of these to make our own progress as well as keep them in the cellar. Coming off a sweep of the Rays I don't think we should accept anything less than two wins with three being expected, especially considering our tendency to play better on the road. We also need to keep the offense going.

Tonight: Mendoza 2-4, 4.95 ERA vs Duensing 1-3, 3.82
Saturday noon: Sanchez 1-3, 6.21 ERA vs Diamond 6-3, 2.67 ERA
Saturday night: Hochevar 5-7, 5.07 ERA vs TBD
Sunday: Chen 7-6, 4.53 ERA vs Liriano 2-7, 5.30 ERA

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

4 game series starts at the Twinkies tonight. We need to win three of these to make our own progress as well as keep them in the cellar. Coming off a sweep of the Rays I don't think we should accept anything less than two wins with three being expected, especially considering our tendency to play better on the road. We also need to keep the offense going.

Tonight: Mendoza 2-4, 4.95 ERA vs Duensing 1-3, 3.82
Saturday noon: Sanchez 1-3, 6.21 ERA vs Diamond 6-3, 2.67 ERA
Saturday night: Hochevar 5-7, 5.07 ERA vs TBD
Sunday: Chen 7-6, 4.53 ERA vs Liriano 2-7, 5.30 ERA

We really need to get tonight's game because game #2 looks like a crapper.

[Mr. Laz]

Royals select Toma, former groundskeeper, to their Hall of Fame
BY BOB DUTTON
The Kansas City Star

Toma is the first selection by the Royals Hall of Fame Veterans Committee, which formed as part of the redesigned voting process in 2011. The committee meets in even-numbered years to evaluate candidates no longer eligible through the regular voting phase.

Toma came to Kansas City in 1957 to serve as head groundskeeper for the A’s and quickly drew praise for transforming Municipal Stadium from a poor playing field into one of the best in the game.

Once the A’s left for Oakland after the 1967 season, Toma continued to oversee groundskeeping operations at Municipal Stadium for the Chiefs. The Royals kept Toma as their groundskeeper when they became an expansion team in 1969.

Toma remained the Royals’ head groundskeeper through 1995 and served two more years as a consultant with the club. He joined Emil Bossard earlier this season as the first two inductees to the MLB Groundskeeper Association Hall of Fame.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/29...#storylink=cpy

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

4 game series starts at the Twinkies tonight. We need to win three of these to make our own progress as well as keep them in the cellar. Coming off a sweep of the Rays I don't think we should accept anything less than two wins with three being expected, especially considering our tendency to play better on the road. We also need to keep the offense going.

Tonight: Mendoza 2-4, 4.95 ERA vs Duensing 1-3, 3.82
Saturday noon: Sanchez 1-3, 6.21 ERA vs Diamond 6-3, 2.67 ERA
Saturday night: Hochevar 5-7, 5.07 ERA vs TBD
Sunday: Chen 7-6, 4.53 ERA vs Liriano 2-7, 5.30 ERA

[Stanley Nickels]

Rob Heinemann, principal spokesperson of the Sporting KC ownership group, was just on 810 with Soren Petro. The last question asked of Heinemann, as a part of Petro's "final four" was-- paraphrasing-- if they'd have any interest in buying the KC Royals. I expected a PC non-answer. His actual answer was somewhere between that and "awesome", saying "If the phone rang, we'd pick it up. It's certainly a great opportunity that we'd be interested in, and we're huge Royals fans"...

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by Stanley Nickels

Rob Heinemann, principal spokesperson of the Sporting KC ownership group, was just on 810 with Soren Petro. The last question asked of Heinemann, as a part of Petro's "final four" was-- paraphrasing-- if they'd have any interest in buying the KC Royals. I expected a PC non-answer. His actual answer was somewhere between that and "awesome", saying "If the phone rang, we'd pick it up. It's certainly a great opportunity that we'd be interested in, and we're huge Royals fans"...

I was just going to post this. Also of note is that he said all of the owners actually live here in KC.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by Stanley Nickels

Rob Heinemann, principal spokesperson of the Sporting KC ownership group, was just on 810 with Soren Petro. The last question asked of Heinemann, as a part of Petro's "final four" was-- paraphrasing-- if they'd have any interest in buying the KC Royals. I expected a PC non-answer. His actual answer was somewhere between that and "awesome", saying "If the phone rang, we'd pick it up. It's certainly a great opportunity that we'd be interested in, and we're huge Royals fans"...

oh hell yes!

[Stanley Nickels]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

I was just going to post this. Also of note is that he said all of the owners actually live here in KC.

I did like that part:
SP: "What city do the owners live in?"
RH: "Leawood, Lloch Lloyd, Mission Hills... I live in KCMO"
SP: "Really? All of them in KC? ... Huh! That's unusual. I'm just gonna put that all the owners live in "KC", and then circle that really big. Just not used to that!"

[ChiefsCountry]

Living in the metro would be a plus but its not that big of a deal IMO. Hell Stenibreiner lived in Tampa and ran the Yankees fine. Besides Glass lives what 3 hours from Kansas City, hell the Hunts in Dallas isn't that big of a deal to me either. Thats an hour via plane from KC.

[Stanley Nickels]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Living in the metro would be a plus but its not that big of a deal IMO. Hell Stenibreiner lived in Tampa and ran the Yankees fine. Besides Glass lives what 3 hours from Kansas City, hell the Hunts in Dallas isn't that big of a deal to me either. Thats an hour via plane from KC.

Steinbrenner and Glass are apples to oranges. First, Steinbrenner was a passionate sports fan who parlayed numerous wise business investments into buying a shitty minor-league basketball team, and eventually ended up buying one of the most important sports franchises in the world. If the Yankees suck, the whole country knows. If the Royals suck, the whole country just... figures that'd be the case.

Steinbrenner bought the Yankees, he didn't inherit them. Steinbrenner was militantly involved in the daily operations in his first days as principal owner, and then eventually moved from NYY.

The "out of town" argument is the principal argument in favor of those who say Glass and Hunt don't have a passionate investment in these teams, and it's only really brought up because there are so many other factors that indicate the same. Essentially it's the lynch pin around which the rest of the apparatus is built.