August 10, I'm finished.

This Royals team is awful. They gave away the game tonight. They think they can throw everyone out so they throw the ball to the wrong base. It cost them the game tonight. Yost is stupid. Have Soria start the inning if you are going to use him anyway. He frustrates me. Let Crow piss all over himself then bring in Soria? Dumb. The team is awful. They are so fundamentally challenged. Oh well. Fuck the Royals. I'm sick and tired of the same old losing attitude. Good for Perez,Moose, Escobar, Gio, and Hoz. They may put together a 70 win season sometime. I highly doubt it. Jump throws and crazy swipes at first base are another "grow up" deal. Hold the ball. Hoz, my friend, the huge sweep to catch the low throws may look good on the ones you catch but it looks awful, because it is, on the plays you can make by keeping your glove back. Fancy bullshit. Sell that to the next guy. I get so pissed at myself for wasting time with this group of losers. They have lost 4 in a row now. They will probably lose 14. Good for them. It is football season as far as I'm concerned.

7 Game road trip---positive signs

Our Royals went on a 7 game road trip to Boston and Cleveland. They won 2 games in each place. Winning two games in Boston is a great thing. The way they went about it was cool. They win 3-1 in 14 innings and 4-3 in the last game. The two games in between, well, Boston racked up big numbers against the worst pitching staff in the majors. Winning the 14 game marathon to start the trip was awesome for the young Royals. Hosmer killed the ball at Fenway. Good! He needs to keep killing the Yankees and Red Sox. Butler was smoking hot. He clubbed the ball against the Sox. He hit blasts, absolute blasts, against the Sox. I have seen the Royals give games away at the wiffle ball park and I was so glad they came out of there with a split. The fact that Butler hit 5 homers in 4 games was cool. I hope he hits them more often but a great streak like that is something to behold. Hos was red hot, too. So you get two wins in Boston and head on off to surprising Cleveland. The Royals played there best overall game of the year against the Tribe. They won 12-0 and Francis was very, very good. Melky blasts a Grand Slam and poses like a goof ball. Then Butler gets buzzed! I don't like the fact that they threw at Butlers head. If Cabrera pisses you off get him next time up. Maybe Melky took it personally when you walked Gordon to load them up for him. It is always bush league to pose at the plate on a homer, always. Butler came back after that and hit another home run. Nice! Best game of the season, by far. I love it when they play well. 12-0 is awesome. The next game at Progressive Field was good too. The double play where Matt Treanor was concussed was cool. I missed the end of the game where Crow and Soria gave it away. Glad I missed it. Crow has been crap since the All Star selection. Man Alex Gordon deserved that. Crow can't handle the spot light. He scares me. The last game was a 5-3 Royals win. Frenchy was good. Gordon hit another homer and the Royals let a 4-2 lead drift away. They entered the top of the 9th only up 4-3. They get two quick outs then Getz lines a single up the middle. He steals second, which was cool. In the meantime Escobar goes 0-2 and looks like a reincarnation of Yuni. Alcides then proceeds to have the best AB I've seen by a Royals player this year. He battled for 14 pitches. He fouled off some tough ones and had the 3-2 count and he would not give in. It was fun to watch. Eventually he lined a single up the middle and gave the Royals a 5-3 lead. Soria needs the insurance. He, Soria, locked the game down and the Royals left the road feeling good about the trip. They played 7 games against competitive teams. They won 4 of those games. They played pretty well. The pitching was the down fall in the games they lost. But 3-1, 4-3, 5-3 wins means they must have had some good pitching too. That doesn't even include the shutout Francis and Wood threw. The team was good on a road trip that I feared would be result in 2 wins or fewer. The dog days are here and the Royals need to play well. I'm hoping that the younger guys can get as hot as the weather and carry the team to 70 wins.
Side bars, Moose is out of his league. He can't hit in the Bigs. His bat is too slow. His call up came too soon. He is a competitive kid but he can't make the adjustments that Hos makes. Hos gets tied up on the high pitch and he adjusts. Moose swings at the first pitch every AB. I like the kid and I hope he can adjust.
The Royals traded Betemit and Aviles at the deadline. The return doesn't really matter. Neither guy traded could catch an STD in Thailand. I'm glad Aviles is gone. The player coming from Boston is younger than him and he can actually play SS. I like what the team did at the deadline. They didn't throw out Melky and Frenchy. Those two have way outplayed their respective deals. Let them finish out the season. Hopefully the Royals will get better. I have big time doubts about the "farm". The prospects aren't that good, guys. Monty is getting shelled. Lamb is getting Tommy John. Odorizzi is in AA. Dwyer can't hit in AA. No real help from the best farm system ever. What a crock. What they do have is they have a 2B that needs a call up. Gio needs a chance. Getz isn't the answer. If he could play short then ok, but he can't. Gio can hit. He is way above 300 and he has a very good second hole hitter style about him. Hos, Gio, Escobar, Moose. That is a good infield that could pair up with a productive outfield and Butler at DH. I want to be optimistic, I really do. I just don't see the cavalry on the "farm" that everyone else sees. No pitching, none. No real hitters. Cain and Gio and Dyson I guess. The Royals need pitching, pitching, pitching and more pitching.
Oh, but the way, Bubba is a fool.7.5 mill is enough to offer. If he wants to play for Big Red, go ahead. No loss. Maybe next draft will have two great pitchers at the 5 spot and 7 spot.
That is enough for now!!!