Nori, for comparison's sake, is checking in with a -.4 WAR.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Royals&amp;src=hash">#Royals</a> announce that tonight&#39;s game (Friday) is officially sold out. Tickets for Sat. and Sun. (1:10 games) start at $10. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BeRoyalKC&amp;src=hash">#BeRoyalKC</a></p>&mdash; Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals/statuses/480099241172291585">June 20, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Aoki seems to provide more comedic material.

PB is going to be pissed about that one.

Winning team= fans

Losing team= no fans

what a concept, I will never blame fans for not showing up if the product on the field does not warrant parking and ticket prices.
This city seems pumped for the Royals right now though.

Just need a Hosmer homer tonight and his head will blow.

While performing at -2.1 WAR in comparison to Dyson.

If comedy>wins, then shit- play aoki everyday and put him at the top of the order.

Wait a minute...

:bravo:

Alex Gordon the fifth best in MLB in WAR and second in MLB in Defensive WAR

And he's not even in the top 15 in votes for the All star game LMAO


The ASG is such a joke.

Cardinals and Yankees didn't sell out but the game against the Mariners did. Got to love winning.

Well its also buck night and the celebrity game with hometown heroes Sudeikis/Rudd/Riggle/Stonestreet. With a matchup of 2 aces, directly after the longest winning streak in 10 years ending with a beatdown of your division rival.

This is not exactly a random Tuesday night game in April.

Im really amazed it sold out quite honestly. In 2003 the team was in first as late as the end of July and they weren't selling out all Friday games I don't think.

Yeah, I was planning on walking up at the ticket office to get some tickets, but got an e-mail that said fans who have not bought any tickets for tonight's game, are encouraged NOT to come to tonight's game.

I can't stand having Infante in the 2 hole. I'd switch him and Cain, and then Gordon/Hosmer.

1-RF Dyson
2-CF Cain
3-LF Gordon
4-DH Butler
5-1B Hosmer
6-C Perez
7-2B Infante
8-3B Moustakas
9-SS Escobar

Did they have the Fireworks Fridays back then? Those Fireworks are a pretty decent draw even if the team is bad.

Good God

KC with 4 lefties in the lineup tonight. Royals righties 0x28 vs Iwakuma.

The @Royals are only @MLB team to have 3 players with at least 20 doubles - Eric Hosmer, Alex Gordon and Alcides Escobar.

Time to start a new streak, and get a W tonight !

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Erica Hosmer is such a pussy!!!

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Tonight's attendance: 38,475. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Royals&amp;src=hash">#Royals</a></p>&mdash; Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals/statuses/480178322022756354">June 21, 2014</a></blockquote>
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This is why if we end up getting into the wild card game I would not want james shields pitching. I know he is our ace and can go a lot of innings but he always seems to dig holes in the early innings and then levels off through the later innings. If we only have one game I think we have better chances with someone else. He especially does not seem to pitch well against Detroit or the AL Central.

What us wrong with big game James? He has been off for a while.

Yep, Shields is the issue that should be discussed. For his first couple of outings I was thinking he would just correct himself.. doesn't look that way.

He went in 8-3 with a 3.50 era. What do people want?

That was an annoying loss

Butler is raking

Mechanics, mechanics, and more mechanics. That's his #1 issue. It's not that his mechanics are bad, it's that they're inconsistent. If his shoulder rushes forward too fast, he has a tendency to leave the ball up. The changeup moves from side to side, rather than fading action down. You'll know when he's doing it if he's missing up in the zone.

It's the #1 reason for the big innings he gives up.

To not put us in deficits like the one today consistently.

I don't disagree to the fact that last season was way over Shields' career numbers. However, as a #1 he should be expected to give the Royals a chance and not force the offense to play catch up.

Thanks.

To start the game as if his mind is really into it, would be refreshing, to not start out in a deficit right off the bat? would be nice.

His numbers have been the same here as his career numbers, a 1/2 starter. But yes to your point he didn't get it done tonight. Of course neither did Holland

Shields has not been as sharp lately. It's amazing how far this team has come though. Two seasons ago Bruce Chen was this team's opening day starter. Now we're worried about a guy with a 3.70 ERA.

We've gotten spoiled, but that comes with expectations. Going into the season, I was hoping for Shields go give us between a 3.00 and 3.50 ERA. He's in the area, but he needs to get better. Even so, he's miles better than what we had years ago. Hell, our whole rotation is miles better.

Shields is a good player. Our team era is still fantastic. We lose games because our power spots at 1B, DH, and RF can't hit the ball with any power

At least you took your lithium, and your manic episode is over. Baby steps :thumb:

What makes it so frustrating is we've seen what happens when the offense and pitching are both clicking, and it's ****ing awesome.

Let's just all take a deep breath and come back tomorrow and kick some ass.
This loss ****ing sucked, but there is still a lot of baseball to be played. For as bad as this loss was, I guarantee there will be wins that will make us forget all about losses like these.

SEA up 1 game to 0

2 to go.

So you would rather be right than see us win?

Yeah, you can go **** yourself.

Aoki to the 15-Day DL. Maxwell back up

I don't get it. I love the pitching, and several regulars (Escobar Cain Gordon) are having all star caliber years. My rage is focused on a limited few and the data completely backs me on it.

i know we DFA ol maxy, glad he's back with the team. brings more pop that ah-oh-kee-doh-kee.

Dyson should be playing more, Aoki def has been a disappointment

His #'s keep falling year after year.

2012 he hit 38 doubles and had 10 HR's

last year 20 doubles and 8 HR's...

the OBP was .356 and .355 atleast those 2 years. Everything down 20-30 points more

He can take a 60 day break it he'd like.

Looks like Maxwell did pretty well in AAA, so maybe he found his swing?

It was this that drew my ire. Disgusting creatures? And you said something about Hosmer's "arrogant face." It's overly obsessive and borderline manic.

.899 OPS in AAA but still struck out a 1/3 of the time.

Should be good power off the bench atleast but not much more

If he can't provide power and extra base hits, he's pretty ****ing worthless to this team

vs. Mariners 6/21/14: Dyson 8, Hoz 3, Butler DH, Gordon 7, Perez 2, Maxwell 9, Moose 5, Escobar 6, Ciriaco 4, Vargas 1

Yep, like he was before he was DFA

Yeah, I really dislike negative WAR players who are arrogant assholes to boot. (This is a reference to an article posted here last month about a visiting journalist who they were pricks to. You may have missed it)

Ah, I didn't notice his strike outs. Not good.

No shit. I don't give a shit if he hits .250. We need some slugging.

Fair enough, man. Moose should be in AAA, and Hosmer needs to quit trying to pull every goddamn pitch into the seats.

I just assume professional athletes are arrogant until proven otherwise. But it's certainly harder to tolerate when they are underperforming.

By the way Rex was on Fox Sports Radio this morning. When he isn't trying to be his goofy self, he can be a really damn good announcer. He had a real good interview.

Did some quick math on the Royals ticket site, I estimate that there are roughly 14,000 tickets available. If that is true, then they have probably sold about 24,000, so they should get over 25,000 easily, but maybe not 30k unless there is a huge walkup.

edit: There are roughly 15,000 tickets available for Sunday, so about 23,000 sold for that.

edit2: For sunday's "bark at the park" promotion, the 6 sections that were reserved for dogs and their owners are all sold out. So for that game if its not full of people, we're at least going to be at the maximum allowable capacity for dogs.

With that lineup, we are going to need Vargy's A-Game. Sure wish Hos would start to come around. He's due for a torrid streak of hitting.

What did they pull for last nights game? Sellout?

Yep

Sell out, and a very unfortunate loss. Have to get it turned back around today. I don't want to think about getting swept at home against SEA, with 6 more games against LAD and LAA.

Yep sold it out last night.

yeah, it was something like 101.3% of capacity (with the extra 1.3% coing from SRO)

I wonder how big of a cluster **** the Sports Complex was last night.

Just imagine if this team could get those numbers on the regular. Damn, I am getting myself excited.

Probably not during the week, but the weekends sure if they stay in 1st.

I would be happy with high 20s for the year.

Weekday games - shooting for 20-24K per game should be the goal.

True, by on the regular I meant on weekends, probably should have clarified that.

The Royals even during the glory years only went over 30k average attendance once.

The only thing I loathe more than baseball is hearing about Cards baseball.

The Cards aren't in 1st and the Royals are (or were as of yesterday's paper.)

I haven't watched the Royals since Bo but if they can somehow manage to stay competitive and make Cards fans sweat I'll ****ing love it...

Where you live (just up the road from me) if the Royals are winning we will see a lot of Cardinal fans suddenly become Royals fans. Granted their is a lot of die hard, many generations Cardinal fans no doubting that for one second, but there is a lot of bandwagon jumpers as well.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>And with that home run, the Royals have now hit as many homers (21) in their last 21+ games as they had in the 52 games before that.</p>&mdash; Rany Jazayerli (@jazayerli) <a href="https://twitter.com/jazayerli/statuses/480431355331764224">June 21, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Pedro Grifol was the hitting coach for the first 52 games. Dale Sveum has been the hitting coach for the last 21+. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SultansOfSveum&amp;src=hash">#SultansOfSveum</a></p>&mdash; Rany Jazayerli (@jazayerli) <a href="https://twitter.com/jazayerli/statuses/480431489834692608">June 21, 2014</a></blockquote>
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We are surrounded by Card fans here of course they have a longer history & have been winning too. KRCG is definitely biased in their coverage.

I've seen more Royals shirts this month than I have the last 20 years.

Erica with a first pitch swinging weak-ass GIDP to end the game today. He's a miserable *#$#(#*@(#$*#@(#*&$#.

I'm joining this hate today too.

Lewdog all in!!!

**** YEAH.

ERICA NEEDS TO SHAVE HIS LONG, GIRLY HAIR!!!!

I really think Dayton is at his wits end with these two. I give him a lot of credit for building a stout pitching staff but they're killing his team. Vargas busted his ass in 90 degree humidity today and took a completely undeserved loss. He needs to give Erica a severe code red in the locker room.

"Severe code red" = surprise butt sex?

I think you might be on to something here. I won't say yes but I won't say no to your suggestion on what must be done.