It’s not so much that the Houston Astros are better than the Kansas City Royals—that was obvious before the first two games, obvious during them, will be obvious for all of this season and might be obvious until the earth is shrouded in fire and all that remains are sorcerers and asbestos—but more distressing is […]
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Friday Notes
I’m not sure it’s safe to say there’s any point in the 2018 season that’s a rock bottom for the Royals, but I think we all have to hope that this week is it. Getting outscored by one of the worst teams in the National League 12-1 at home when your two struggling veteran arms […]
RECAP: Frankie Montas owns the Royals
I’m not sure what the Royals did to anger Frankie Montas, and I’m not sure how to rectify it. Should they go for a team-wide exorcism? Sacrifice an animal? Find a pagan god of some kind and ask his favor? Whatever it is, the Royals need to do it ASAP before they see Montas again. […]
The Jay deal signals trade season is here
If this franchise goes on a championship run in the next five years, it’s a good bet we will flashback to this week as a pivotal moment in The Process 2.0. Not only did the Royals stock up on college arms via the draft, they executed what figures to be the first of several trades, […]
RECAP: Here’s to the future!
On the same night the Kansas City Royals front office was drafting the team of the future (a future which appears to have little need for bats), the 2018 version was some 1,300 miles west of 1 Royals Way to take on the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Surrounding Municipalities Including But Not Limited […]
Royals Progress Report
The 2018 season for the big league Royals was never meant to be a championship season. It was never meant to provide thrilling moments in August and September. It was never meant to provide even a glimmer of hope that the team could even be in contention at the one-third mark. Sure nobody in the […]
Friday Notes
We’ve now passed the magical 40-game mark that Dayton Moore has mentioned so many times, so hopefully now we can start to see some moves to turn this team into a lean, mean contender. I kid, of course, but I do think we’ll start to see even more movement over the next few weeks. We’ve […]
Hitting is Hard
Maybe the Royals offense is bad. It’s not hard to assume that, given what you’ve seen so far in 2018. But what if I told you it didn’t have to be that way? In fact, what if I told you the Royals were (gasp) underachieving? Actually, you’d probably believe that. But what if it could […]
RECAP: Because 10 runs in the first inning, that’s why
Sometimes you score four runs in three games against Cleveland, and sometimes you get to face Dylan Bundy. The Baseball Gods repaid the Kansas City Royals for many of the travails they suffered in April, gifting the Royals 10 runs and four homers against a clearly overmatched Bundy in a 15-7 drubbing at Camden Yards. […]
RECAP: Matt Davidson might be a god
Pray tell, what aside from absolute madness would compel a man to spend his Friday night watching the Kansas City Royals and Chicago White Sox endeavor to baseball? Well, part of it is that hey, the Royals may win one. I hold no illusions about this most of the time right now, as we’re all […]