Monday, June 30, 2008

Whistle thru your teeth and spit

Beating the Cardinals was really fun while it lasted. (That Pujols guy is pretty good.)

Banny is still smart and he battles out there, but he's starting to get clobbered.

Billy is back.

But in Royal World, you have to sit for a week after you get called up from Omaha. Buddy made the rule and Trey is subscribing to it.

BTW the Royals are 0-2 since Billy came back.

We don't care what Jose Guillen says -- we just want him to start bashing again. (Until then, would it kill him to take a walk?)

Buck has been batting in front of Pena and now Gathright all season. Fortunately, Buck is willing to take a walk. (Now would it kill him to hit a HR every now and then?)

Even when he's hitting the ball a little, it's depressing to have Ross Gload as your every day first baseman. We've got to replace Gathright and Gload in the lineup with Butler and someone else who can hit.

It will be hard to take Gathright out of the lineup, now that Dejesus has a boo-boo.

We really need another hitter. (At least this isn't as desperate as a month or two ago, when we really needed at least three more hitters.)

Just when we think Teahen's going to really get it going, he strikes out again. And again.

Just when we think Gordon is never going to be much better than average in this league, he has a night like he had Friday night. And he's starting to take a lot of walks.

(We just checked the box score from yesterday. Turns out Alex left SEVEN runners on base. Gathright left four.)

Baltimore sucks (the team and the city). That's why it's so hard to figure out why KC loses to the Orioles so much. Go get em Greinke!

P.S. We were pitching batting practice last week and some kid lined one off our forehead. We then tripped on a loose baseball and then fell onto a bucket of balls. This, in addition to generating much laughter, has resulted in fantastic bruising and possibly internal injuries.

P.P.S. We know the headline for this post doesn't have anything to do with this post. Headlines that match content are going out of style.

P.P.P.S. Our grandpa, a Kansas State graduate, used to say that the reason he was such a KU fan was because he paid for an education up in Manhattan, and they didn't give him one. Having attended both K-State and Mizzou (but not KU), we can testify that KSU was tougher. But the girls were much hotter in Columbia. In the end, all we really know is that we still can't stand KU.

3 comments:

RoyalPrick said...

How much better could this team be if somebody like Pujols was playing 1B. Too bad he wasn't available in the first 13 rounds of the draft in 1999.

RoyalPrick said...

I just read Dick Kaegel's mailbag at MLB.com. There was a question about moving DeJesus down in favor of “ideal leadoff hitter” Gathright.

My answer would have been: “because Gathright kind of sucks.”

But Kaegel actually agreed a little: “(Gathright) does seem like a good fit at No. 1 if he can draw more walks, hit for a higher average, and improve his on-base percentage.”

Well no shit Sherlock.

Dan Holden said...

I had the misfortune of listening to the Cardinals TV broadcast on Sunday. After Aviles missed the pop-up we had to endure an hour long tirade about using the proper glasses.

The exchange culminated in side by side pictures of Aaron Miles and Aviles with Miles wearing the approved of flip down shades.

It was one of the more impressive displays of old-man-windbaggery I have heard since my grandpa's regular complaints about flamboyant homeplate umpires.