ROFL

Back when I was mad about that. I've embraced dingleberry.

Ball 2 was strike 3 to Gordon

Herrera needs an eephus pitch

now that's frustrating..you walk a guy with a 5 run lead.....

There are times Ned will goof, all managers will goof. Many times the manager makes the right call or move and the players under perform, yet on here it's usually the managers fault.

But yes, Ned has had his share of blunders.

**** an a Kelvin

Nice work Herrera.

His share? Ned is a clown car named desire.

Varg / Cain players of the game

damn, that was low.

Ned is not a good manager. However, too many only judge on hindsight when correct moves are made but bad outcomes happen, you blame that on the player. Had Crow given up some runs, plenty would have put that on Ned when Crow was the obvious call that inning. It's just something I've noticed on here. No one wants to state if they like moves when they are made. Only bitching after the fact.

Just trying to be fair, there are worst managers in MLB.

Ned's an average manager - not great, not horrible either.

Dude, seriously? If he was a good manager then Milwaukee would not have fired him a month before the playoff run he lead them to.

This Ump has really expanded the zone for Toronto all ****ing night

I'm game. Name one. I'm trying to think of a manager who has been fired for collapsing 12 games before the playoffs?

Yep, that's baseball, the fans have nothing to do but bitch when we lose and be happy when we win.

In Ned's defense, he's closer to horrible than great.

:LOL:

That's Milwaukee Pete. Maybe they have higher standards than the Royals. Ned is sadly one of the better managers the Royals have had in the past few decades. He's average, which is good for Royals managers.

He's pretty ****ing average and clearly managing pretty ****ing average players.

Dale Sveum who will replace Ned if they fire him midseason

We can agree that his pile of shit smells slightly better than the other piles of shit

Horrible managers are the Trey Hillmans, Tony Muser, Tony Penas, Bob Boones of the world. Yost is your average MLB manager.

Sure, but he also gets blamed for more shit that should be more related to just plain shitty players.

Anyway, is this really Kelvin???

Fever's humor has worn thin. Hud is a dork but at least he is ..well ****....**** em both

Hey, just got home. What did I miss?

So that same ****ing pitch is strike 1 and ball 4.....this ****ing Umpire is terrible

I spoke too soon. This is the Kelvin I know.

****

Hello, Ned......Kelvin is gassed, dumb ass

Cain balling with 4 RBIs and a homer, Billay getting hits, Gordo bomb and Vargas dealing.

Wow, so according to Fever we walked 6 guys twice tonight.

Ok, let him face one more then you might have to bail. 40 pitches for a flame thrower and it's getting scary.

That's it, Ned. Leave the gassed guy in....

To be fair, not all of that Brewers collapse was on Ned, some of it was on the players. But the majority? Yes, he claims to have learned from that, Only time will tell. So far, I'm not convinced.

But who is worst, Ned or Ron Washington ?

Ball game.

Nice finish......never should have been left in to throw that many pitches but way to suck it up

HAHA. HERRERA

Herrera finally saves the bullpen.

And you would have wanted another pitcher in our bullpen to get work with two games left to play this series. Bad manager, Pete.

Yall worried about nothing, I knew they weren't going to score another ****in run

I wish I could quit this team, but I can't. They keep sucking me back in.

WINNING STREAK COMMENCING

Yes, I would have.....now who is using hind-sight Mr. "You guys like to bla bla bla"

Two wins! We've played pretty good against the AL East. Now if we could just beat Detroit...

We need to win this series. A spit at this point would suck

Nice win, Ned made the right moves and the players performed.

Team win.

Especially when we are throwing Aaron Brooks out there tomorrow. We need all the arms fresh tomorrow.

How is that using hindsight? I agreed with having Kelvin pitch to one more batter, just like Ned. Turns out he and I were right and didn't have to waste another pitcher from the bullpen. You can't find it in your tight ass to see when Ned actually makes a correct move.

It wasn't time to replace him yet.

Ned was right here.

They have been doing that to me for awhile. The thing is that I've been following them since 1971 & they are embedded into me. I was spoiled for too long with them too. I never thought they'd finish lower than 2nd place in my lifetime.

Cain interview after the game. Seems like a pretty cool dude

Yep.

Just got home and saw the score. WOW.

So this Sveum shit is for real?

Almost out of dreadful May, too. Time to turn on the afterburners

Given our ability to play better against better talent....I like our chances!

Shaking up the coaching staff always gives a team a shot in the arm. We'll see if the offense can still hit once the shine wears off on that.

When Lonewolf posted all of Pete's posts in a game thread a week or so ago...that was glorious LMAO Post after post of vaginal leakage.

Well next week is essentially arch rival week so we better.

Gawd, going in to St Louis on a 4 game winning streak would be sweet

That, and this offense was so ****ing bad it HAD to get better just on its own. Toronto + the coaching change was as good a time as any. Yeah, let's see how long it lasts.

Yay us!

I'm not trying to say Ned is good and he has cost us some games. But no where near the 20-25 games that CP seems to think he loses us every year!

Sveum has this notion that we were hitting too many ground balls and needed to elevate the ball more. Go figure!

I'm really curious how this all works. So they just totally say **** it to the guy who was coaching them and all of a sudden for two games they looks like different players. Surely it's just coincidence and not a real adjustment already...is it? I mean, that other coach is still in the dugout and what not, and probably still coaching a bit.

Science!

Ron Washington? The manager who led the Rangers to two consecutive World Series appearances?

Yeah, that guy. He is worse than Yos......I can't say it

12-16 so far in May is not as bad as last year! Victory!

No way. We are 1/3 of the way through the season. This team has to show me a sustained stretch where they score at league average or above. Until proven otherwise, this is merely a two game aberration.

ONe of those years he was running High on the Hog wasn't he?

Yea. Imagine that.

They most likely got a bit of a reality check because they know they are the reason the coach was canned or moved in this case.

It's just like when a struggling team gets a new manager. The monotony is broken and the players get a boost. It's purely psychological and it doesn't last terribly long.

You guys get our top prospect pitcher in his first MLB start tomorrow instead of one of our better pitchers who is getting pushed back to face the Tigers due to fatigue. The Royals will no doubt mash him like they've somehow been doing against the Jays all year.

Must of still made some good decisions. Truly amazing that he was able to accomplish that with a monkey on his back

It's like watching Romeo beat Green Bay all over again.

I am believing that the new hitting coach will help the players get back to their normal average, which pretty much still sucks, but it isn't eating C-Section stitches bad.

Mirage ?

Too early but so far, OK.

What, 1.23% of the season isn't proof enough?