<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Can confirm. Worst day ever. <a href="https://t.co/sWAmRjkIF3">https://t.co/sWAmRjkIF3</a></p>&mdash; Craig Mish (@CraigMish) <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigMish/status/780023817674653696">September 25, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sadly, I can confirm that Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez was killed in a boating accident.</p>&mdash; clarkspencer (@clarkspencer) <a href="https://twitter.com/clarkspencer/status/780029682351681544">September 25, 2016</a></blockquote>
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This is so awful...24 years old oh man.

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Such a shame. What a huge blow for his family, and really awful for the Marlins and baseball in general.


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LMAO

Yep,they fed me that one. I do love that this board has such a great archive.

Ugh...just freaking brutal. Such a gut punch. He was maybe my favorite young pitcher to watch in all of baseball.

I'm with you, man. It always sucks when you hear of someone dying "before their time" but for some reason this one is affecting everybody that knows the sport. I think his story combined with his personality and otherworldly talent, makes this one really hurt.

It is a great feature. It makes calling people out nearly impossible, I taught Saul Good that lesson many times.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="in" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash">#Royals</a> vs LHP Boyd: <br>Burns CF<br>Merrifield 1B<br>Morales DH<br>Perez C<br>Orlando RF<br>Gordon LF<br>Escobar SS<br>Cuthbert 3B<br>Mondesi 2B<br>Volquez P</p>&mdash; Joel Goldberg (@goldbergkc) <a href="https://twitter.com/goldbergkc/status/780054870397038592">September 25, 2016</a></blockquote>
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That's an interesting lineup......

Why no Dozier?

Holy ****. What an absolute tragedy for the game of baseball.

RIP Fernandez.

Gordon is going to be the regular starting LF and regular starting DH?
Hard to see trading Esky for a AAAA arm.
Burns?

No idea. I'd play Dozier every day if I were Edgar, but, ya know, we need to play Orlando to evaluate him for next season......

Eat me. I was drinking Odells and on a dose of zpak

No idea...get him abs

I thought the Gordon thing was a unique idea...LF and DH. Would he get to bat twice each time through the lineup? If he's batting .215 again, the other team may not object.

You ****man

Boyd yanked before recording a single out.

So the Royals are off to a fast and pissed off start today. Four batters in, and we have already hit for the cycle this inning. With Eddie on the mound it'd be nice if they got four more.

9 full innings against the Tigers bullpen. I don't think there's a more-desirable situation in all of hitting.

The Royals recorded a Single, Triple, Double, Home Run, Single, a stolen base and a walk before recording an out today.

CUTTY!

Mondesi gets in on the home run action.

Royals up 7-0 going in to the bottom of the 3rd.

7 runs may not be enough for Eddie today.

Volquez never saw a lead he couldn't give up.

Tying run up for the Tigers.

Fox Sports got **** on the air after Gordon homer.

Upton takes Soria deep again

Soria trying to pad Wade Davis' save numbers here.

Shaky bullpen hangs on

What a blast of a game. Great to see Wade dial it up to 98 against Miguel.

Alcohol has little to no effect on an antibiotic like amoxicillin.

Thanks again Royals.

A Z-pack is azithromycin. Totally different class.

Yeah, I meant to say azrithromycin. Regardless - alcohol and azityromycin aren't going to have any negative interactions either.

I hope some of you were able to see the ending of the Dodger game and Vin's gesture during the celebration. Truly ended the saddest of days in the most-touching of ways.

Anytime. We owe you one.

http://m.mlb.com/images/1/0/6/155427...s_37t3we5n.gif

Not Royals, but worth sharing.

Dee Gordon just hit his first home run of the year to lead off tonight's game for the Fish. It was incredible. He took the first pitch from Bartolo batting right-handed wearing Jose's helmet. Switched back to his normal spot with his helmet and two pitches later hit a no-doubter to right. Stuff like that just can't be put into words.

Saw something to a much more inferior degree with a guy in the bowling league I was in rolled a 300 the night we observed a moment of silence for a former player who had passed.

The guy who rolled the perfecto used the deceased' league member's ball that night.

Once again, our innocent friends up in Toronto got into a bench clearing beanball war tonight... this time with the Yankees. Surprise, Josh Donaldson was involved.

That is every, every bit as great. It's awesome to hear things like that. Keep the faith, brother.

You should have had that ball surgically implanted between your legs so that you wouldn't be a raging dipshit forever, although your rampant dumbassery and general misdirection in life would have likely led to the same depressing state.

But you would have had an interesting story to tell, as opposed to now.

ok...interesting retort

The f?

Grooved.

http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfxVB/...lb&pnf=3&zlpo=

Blue Jays pure class organization.
http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/b...owdowns-092716

Lol

As opposed to most home runs, which are hit off of perfectly located sliders, down and away.

Baseball is full of shit when they say the don't condone stuff like this. Happ should have been warned after the first pitch he intentionally threw at Headley and then tossed after he hit him.

BP fastball down the pipe. Terrence Gore would have hit that one out.

Hahah. Now that would arouse suspicions.

2015 Zobrist (with royals) vs Merrifield:


Zobrist: 264 PA 37r 7hr 23rbi 2sb 123wRC+ 0.1run 7.1 off -4.6 def 1.2fWAR
Whit. : 305 PA 42r 2hr 26rbi 8sb 90wRC+ 3.4run -0.1off 4.4 def 1.5fWAR

This would be amazing if the def WAR wasn't terrible.

That 123wRC+ is amazing!

Stuff gave me an allergic reaction.



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Yet another example of the Blue Jays being the crying little whiny bitches they are.

Donaldson gets nicked on the elbow pad with a pitch which clearly wasn't intentional. Response? Be a little bitch, cry about it, and have another one of your bitch players do your dirty work for you by intentionally throwing at a Yankee the following inning (twice), which he should have been ejected for.

So naturally, Yankees retaliate cause they're pissed (rightfully so) and they get tossed (does this scenario sound at all familiar?)

So apparently the MLB umpires have to protect the little Blue Jays from the Big Bad Yankees and Royals.


What sad, pathetic whiny little bitches that whole team has turned into . . . .

Connection should be back shortly with his 10 college degrees to explain why the Jays' postseason run this season beats winning the World Series last season.

Not to mention, Donaldson constantly crowds the plate. **** him.

Nothing wrong with crowding the plate. Everything wrong with your teamate being a bitch and retaliating for nothing.

2-0 count against one of the fastest players in the game, that pitch is going to be right down the pipe the majority of the time no matter the circumstances. Good thing he crushed it.

Dillon Gee shut down due to emboli in lung and arm.

Cain also shut down due to gimpy wrist.
I think this hurts our playoff chances.

If Baltimore and Toronto are in the WC game, I'll have no idea who to root for. I can't stand either one, and would then cheer for the winner to get swept in ALDS.

You root for a 30 inning game.

Murder suicide?

Like Manny Machado, if you crowd the plate, you better be willing to wear a few. Both of them are complete pussies. They both throw hissy fits every time they get hit, and they get hit because their body parts are up over the plate. F em.

With body armor

We're still alive!

The Royals basically need the Chiefs 2006 season-ending miracle. 5 times in a row.

Might be bigger than that.
Couldn't help myself and I looked at the schedules...not only do we need to win 5 and need Baltimore to lose 5,
Detroit can only win at most 1 of 5 ( 2 vs cle, 3 vs atl)
Sea can only win at most 2 of 5 (vs hou and 4 vs As)
Hou can only win at most 2 of 4 (vs sea and 3 vs LAA)
Sea or Hou is guaranteed 1 win since they play each other
NYY has to first lose at least 1 of 2 games vs. bos, then win their 3 vs Balt.

And if all that happens, KC would tie Balt for the #2 wildcard.
If some other stuff happens, there could be a be a 3, 4, 5 or 6-way tie for the final wildcard at 85 wins. LMAO

With or without KC, it seems a multiple-way tie for #2 WC is very possible.

I checked MLB, and they do have a procedure for a 4-way tie for the last WC spot, but none listed for 5 or 6 teams.

For 4 teams, they basically split the teams in pairs with the winners advancing to play the other winner.
For 5 or 6, I imagine the top 1 or 2 teams by tiebreaker formula would get a bye and play the prior winners, then those winners play each other.
No matter what, it would be a fun bunch of cluster**** chaos.

Regardless of KC's involvement... the butthurt over the necessity to have a wild card game to determine a wild card berth would fuel much discussion.

This team has given us so much since that failed run at the end of 2013. 2014 was amazing, and then last year we won it all. This year has been a bit of a disappointment, but only because our expectations have been raised. Basically, we have expectations now. Its frustrating knowing that we're probably in this thing if we don't get hit with injuries like we did and soria shitting the bed, but at least I can save some money on post season tickets and gear this year...

Go Royals!!!! 2017 is right around the corner.

THAT would be epic. I'm in!

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So you saying there's a chance!


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One game playoff to knock Baltimore out would be glorious.

If there is a 3 or 4-way tie, there would have to be 2 rounds to get the wild card representative (team 1 vs 2 & team 3 vs 4, then the winners play each other to determine the #2 WC team).

Adding that 2nd wild card obviously keeps more teams contending deep into the season, but they have been lucky there haven't been more tie situations.

The 2014 wild card game is obviously an amazing part of Royals history, but I still hate the idea of a 1-game playoff "round" for baseball.

Zero sympathy.

You have 162 games to put you ahead of the four other teams in your division.

Don't want to have your season come down to a 1 game playoff? Win your damn division.

I think a 6-way tie for the wildcard would be awesome.