Bring on the Rangers

That concludes the season series with the Yankees, right? If so, the Kansas City Royals of Raytown went 4-3 against those bastards this year.

Alex Gordon needs to learn how to spoil pitches with two strikes instead of watching them go by with that shit-eating grin on his face. He needs to foul off the pitches he can't drive, and he needs to make better contact on the ones he can drive. Right now, he looks like a .270 20 HR 80 RBI guy going forward. (And he'll be lucky to do that this year.) We need him to be more than that.

Olivo > Buck

Guys we're ready to deal if we can get something for them: Buck, Gobble, Grudz, German and Gload.

Dayton's doing a good job with trades and free agents, and the Kansas City Royals of Blue Springs have developed or are developing (we hope) some "stars" like Greinke, Dejesus, Gordon, Butler and Hochevar. Now they need to develop a Super Star.

P.S. From now on, we're trying out new names for the Royals in the new tradition of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Look for the Kansas City Royals of Grandview, the Peculiar Royals of Lee's Summit, the Kansas City Royals of The Plaza, The Olathe Royals of Kansas City, the Lenexa Royals of Olathe, the Shawnee Mission Royals of Bonner Springs, the Independence Royals of Kansas City, the Topeka Royals of Pottawattamie or the Brookside Royals of the Power and Light District.