***6/16: Royals vs. Cards (and the GREATEST FANS ON EARTH)***
 

Chen vs. Kelly

Gordon
Getz
Hosmer
Frenchy
Moose
Pena
Escobar
Dyson
Chen (Come on!)

Gonna be a hot one today. Going easy on the Boulevards.

What do you guys expect from Chen?

Need to step up the arrogance if we want to win this series.

Lets get it on on.

I expecting his screaming 85 mph fastball to nibble at teh corners.

It goes one of two ways with him - he'll make it four+ innings of getting kicked around then yanked, or he'll go seven strong, leaving the Cards hitters wondering why in the blue **** they weren't mashing his meatball pitches to every corner of Busch Stadium.

C'MON CHEN /obligatory

If the umpire allows him to expand the zone a little bit, he can be very effective, though his stuff is less than impressive. If the zone is tight, look out.

****ing hot outside.

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Gordon's looking like the Gordon of last year lately...

"You're not going to ask Hosmer to bunt them over"

Well no kidding, Rex.

Interesting note that has nothing to do with this game specifically, but I thought you might find amusing.

If you go to baseballreference.com (or profootballreference.com, for that matter) to search for a players' stats, and you misspell a players' name (say you are looking for Billy Butler, as I did, and you mispell it "Bily Butler), you come up with a page that says there is no match for that name.

If, however, you want to search Billy Butler, and you enter Country Breakfast in the search field, it goes directly to Billy Butler's page.

I expect complete and utter DOMINATECHEN!!!!!!!

WTF is that??? RYAN IS PISSED

Uh, WTF?