Kansas City Royals @ Minnesota Twins Game Thread (5/2)
 

Game 2 of 3 game series.

Bannister vs. LHP Glen Perkins

6:10pm CST Fox Sports KC

We SUCK in Minnesota for some reason, but hopefully "Banny" gets it together...

Would you fockers please let alnorth do his thing!!

Why do I gots to be a focker? You Focker!

This is my first Royals game thread, so eat a dick, Joe. :-P

All you fockers just keep quiet. There's serious banter going on in here.

If they lose it best be your last :D

:hmmm:

Yeah if you read his first few posts he seems to have dick on his mind

They said we were something like 5-43 in MINN the last few years or something ASSININE like that...

So, Im helping Alnorth keep his streak going! heh

heh, ya bastard! Im so not flushing next time I come up to your place.

I'm still waiting the day we get rid of Ponson and Farnsworth.

This shit of "well he didn't have his stuff tonite" has happened about 8 times already.

KC should be about 15-6 now.

agreed. every sensible person in america knew from the start that ponson and farnsworthless were terrible signings. i don't know why the royals organization thought any differently.

Most teams have shitty 5th starters, and Ponson is just keeping the spot warm until Hochevar comes up.

By keeping Hochevar in the minors through the first month, we get to keep him an extra year. I'll take a few spots from Ponson for that.

The two of them account for our 7 of our 11 losses... hopefully we dump them soon.

Kid hasn't done anything yet to make the "keep him another year" thing make any sense. If the organization was worried about this, a better approach would be to sign him to an extension, since it's likely that he'll never be cheaper.

Not all of Ponson's starts have been terrible, but if the team really sacrificed four games for the bottom line, I can't think of anything more chickenshit. That's old school Royals bullshit there.

I think Ponson has been better than expected, certainly not Scott Elarton bad. Going into last night he was a fine 5th starter, now his numbers look bad. He's had three decent starts and two bad ones.

The trouble is we can't afford to just keep losing everytime our 5th guy comes to the mound, or late in the game when the game is close and its time for our worthless set up man to come out and serve up meat balls to the other team. We cant bat ourselves Wins. We need to pitch extremely well and play small ball. We have very limited consistant power from just a few players at most.

If we want to seriously become contenders (yes I said it) we need to make the move that makes the most sense........get rid of Farnsworth and Ponson. I cant even imagine what the Royals team ERA would be without those 2 clowns.



I dunno, I just ****in hate Farnsworth, my other half as a Cubs fan, I ****ing hated this guy when he was in Chicago. I almost had to pull my car over when I listed to 610 the day we signed this piece of shit and for how much we signed him for. I can't believe that the "baseball minds" we have in the front office would even think of signing this guy when avg Joe baseball fan knows that he's a complete train wreck as a pitcher. Jesus.
What a complete waste of a signing.

I'm too hard on Ponson, he's had some good and some really terrible outings, but thats the thing .....hes terribly inconsistant. Always has been. Everywhere he goes, doesn't matter. In NYY he had a 5+ ERA. I dont care if its a 5th starter or a 8th starter in little league thats just ****ing terrible. The only reason why I'm not too pissed about it is because of the little money he's making. He's on a minor league contract, which means that A: No one else wanted his ass, because he agreed to sign with one of the worse clubs in MLB for a min deal.

Hochevar needs to be brought up......period.

The guy who was signed to be our ace bad. :shake:

Prior to the last couple of years, this ****ing franchise...

Not sure what you're trying to say with the first part. I think it's common sense to trade one month of Hochevar at 24 years old for an extra year when he's in his prime in his late twenties. He hasn't done nearly enough to warrant an extension; hell, we just gave Greinke an extension after a year with a sub 4 ERA.

There's just no reason to push him up here right now. Just let him continue to improve and gain confidence, and hopefully he'll be ready to contribute meaningfully this summer. It's not focusing on the bottom line - it's being patient with players and not rushing them. THAT is old school Royals bullshit.

Rushing players was also part of the regular MO, so I also agree with your final sentence. Not sure if this was the case with Hoch, though. Of course, the reason players had to be rushed was that there were no viable alternatives at the ML level, primarily because Glass wasn't spending any money. So, it's a vicious cycle.

As a college pitcher with a year of semi-pro experience, Hochevar should have been ready to compete at the start of the season. Perhaps it will end up being the right move in the long term, but I have a hard time believing he didn't give the club the best chance to win.

Whatever, though. Water under the bridge, with the team still competitive and about to reap some practical value from the move. For the record, the team was late in getting that extension to Greinke, IMO.

winner.

i guess i don't have any common sense, cause i have no idea how keeping him in AAA gives him an extra year in his late twenties. please explain.

Not any more.

It has to do with his ML service time, and thus the club's ability to stretch out the time before he hits arbitration and FA.

thanks for the explanation.

that does not justify having sidney ponson in the major leagues, though.

considering that we are now talking about 1 week, maybe it does. Or at least we need to start someone other than Hochevar.

If we wanted to not care about service time, then he needed to start at the beginning of the season. At this point we are committed and would be stupid to bring him up before the magic date.

In poker tournament terms, this would be like if you had a middle pair of sevens on the flop, someone raised you, you re-raised 95% of what you got, and they called. Maybe you shouldnt have done that, but you cant fold now.

But you would certainly also have to consider the quality of the opponent; i.e., are you facing off against a championship-caliber player or are you taking on a 5-year old who has never played poker before? Also, is the dealer shifty-eyed and keeps winking at your opponent? And what exactly are the two cards in your hand? Are they the other two sevens or could they possibly be a couple of Pokemon character cards?

Hochevar starts today for Omaha.
Might be worth keeping an eye on his pitch count, just in case the Royals are thinking about giving him Wednesday's start in KC.

you shall never speak of his name again

Piss on the Twins. That is all.

ROFL

Ill miss most of the game, but im hoping Bannister can have another great performance tonight, that would be very encouraging.

why does ponson pitch so many games

because the royals are reeruned?

leadoff double by coco, as usual.

bloomy attempts to bunt; fails.

bloomy proceeds to hit a single to right field.

Small ball, foiled.

damnit butler

billy hits into double play. coco scores from third. 1-0 royals.

guillen is swinging the bat very well. hopefully this will last more than 2 days this time.

He went on a torrid stretch last year. Lasted about 2 weeks, IIRC.

we should have got more out of that inning

dammit, john suck sucks again.

true. then he went on a very untorrid stretch for about 4 months.

Yep. He defines "streak hitter."

Part of that is because I think he's a mental midget and too much affects his game. From fans, to everything in between.

I'm calling it now no-hitter by bannister

bloomy is so good at everything.

whats jimmy gobble up to these days

Yeah, great, great hitter.

jesus david you can't see the ball?

there is the royals' weekly popup misplay.

Need the DP ball.

callaspo should have been there though, infielder has to haul after it, and outfielder has priority to call him off

Beautiful.

and there is the double play, lets pretend nothing happened

**** yeah. strike em out, throw em out.

why is justin morneau pretending to be miguel olivo?

this is batting practice

Hillman can't wait to call for the bunt...

Callaspo with 10 doubles this year... that seems like a lot.

alberto callaspo continues to dominate.

callaspo next guy to hit .400

Callaspo has been a pleasant surprise so far this year

That's why you don't ****ing make that call in the 2nd inning.

Hard hit ball gets the job done, but gives you a chance to score.

2-0 whats the run rule?

Nice, Olivo with the single to CF. Scores the run.

MIGGY!

Who are these hitters in Royals uniforms?

All right.

1st and 2nd, 1 out. Coco at the plate.

they calling for their bullpen yet?

what a stupid outfield. the ball bounces like they are playing on concrete.

i'm sensing a double play ball, probably won't be coco though

Getting great swings on this dude.

olivo and aviles finally starting to swing the bat better. they are both hitting at least .200 now!

and there is the double play

WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS? :banghead:

haven't you come to expect it?

holy crap aviles

****ing Aviles with the bad throw.

hey looking good kc