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SPchief · 05-24-2011, 05:03 PM

Duffy on the mound

Al Bundy · 05-24-2011, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Sure-Oz

Robert Ford of Royals postgame defends soria as usual...blame betimit and horrible pitch selection.

Sorry 10 walks in 18 ip and 12 ks isnt working, oh and now a 5+ era

Robert Ford is a ****wad... he isn't a Royals person at all.

**Reaper16** · 05-24-2011, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by GloryDayz

Tell soria he's done before he gets in the shower!! And Betemit too. Let the locker room see them pack their bags on the way out, then tell them who wants to be the next to pack his stuff. Nobody's looking at them right now, so you might as well punch your ticket here (in hopes of a trade), but if you F-up, you'll never be seen by the other teams unless they buy 4-dollar AA tickets a LOT.. They're all expendable...

Good grief.

milkman · 05-24-2011, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Reaper16

Good grief.

I guess he's taking it calmly.

GloryDayz · 05-24-2011, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Reaper16

Good grief.

Got a better idea (that hasn't been proven to not work yet)?

**DeezNutz** · 05-24-2011, 08:33 PM

Disappointing to see Betemit not knock the ball down, even though it was extremely well struck.

That said, Soria has to be hurt. Once again, this is why 100-loss teams don't pretend that closers, even exceptional ones, are unmovable. Soria has been great, but he also should have been traded in '10.

GloryDayz · 05-24-2011, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by milkman

I guess he's taking it calmly.

Just taking a business-like approach to it. It's a game for us, a career for them; they need to treat it like a career and not a game. I'm just sayin...

BillSelfsTrophycase · 05-24-2011, 08:34 PM

I doubt he's done, but he's a far sight from a ML closer at this point

Send him to the DL, then give him a rehab assignment...He'll either figure it out or he won't

DJ's left nut · 05-24-2011, 08:34 PM

Soria is very very broken.

I meant to mention it after the Cardinals game on Sunday, but I got drunk at the ballgame and then came home to downed trees in my neighborhood and flat forgot. I was at that Sunday game and in the AB before the double play that bailed him out, I saw what absolutely convinced me he was fried.

1-1 count and he throws some kind of breaking ball. As he delivered it, his top half completely ran away from his bottom half, his shoulder flew open and his entire body slowed down. He couldn't have done more to telegraph a breaking ball had he yelled it before he threw it. It took me a second to realize that time hadn't been called or something, that's how completely out of sorts he looked. He just looked like an unfolding lawn chair up there.

When guys lose their mechanics like that on a breaker, it's because they're hiding an injury. He's trying to get some break on his offspeed pitches but it hurts to do it, so he's trying to coax one up there. Worse still, I hear he's working on a cutter. Ask Cardinals fans what happens when a power reliever with a hammer curve starts featuring a cutter. Jason Isringhausen ruined 1 season and damn near ruined another one before his arm finally exploded. By the 2nd season he'd pretty much abandoned throwing his fastball for that cutter and his curveball, previously dominant, was replaced by some slurve thing. All of it came because his arm hurt when he tried to throw a 4 seamer or a curveball.

Soria isn't coming back around this year. I've seen this movie and the ending isn't pretty. That single pitch he threw against STL was as ugly and telling as anything you'll see from him.

**SAUTO** · 05-24-2011, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by GloryDayz

Tell soria he's done before he gets in the shower!! And Betemit too. Let the locker room see them pack their bags on the way out, then tell them who wants to be the next to pack his stuff. Nobody's looking at them right now, so you might as well punch your ticket here (in hopes of a trade), but if you F-up, you'll never be seen by the other teams unless they buy 4-dollar AA tickets a LOT.. They're all expendable...

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GloryDayz · 05-24-2011, 08:37 PM

"He's just struggling right now". Yeah, that's right... It's a good thing none of us could figure that out with our limited knowledge of the game of baseball... I'll bet he knows three strikes are an out too.. Nice coach!! Keep your bags close, you might be gone soon too...

milkman · 05-24-2011, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by GloryDayz

Just taking a business-like approach to it. It's a game for us, a career for them; they need to treat it like a career and not a game. I'm just sayin...

Betemit has been the most cosistent player on this team this year.

He had a bad inning.

milkman · 05-24-2011, 08:40 PM

And that first ball off his glove was not an easy play.

Sure-Oz · 05-24-2011, 08:40 PM

Pretty sure Soria goes on a longterm DL, they better have Andrews check out his arm

1 TJ surgery already.

Montero would look nice in our minors (hindsight obvious)

GloryDayz · 05-24-2011, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by milkman

Betemit has been the most cosistent player on this team this year.

He had a bad inning.

He sure did have a bad inning... The whole "ole" thing was a great thing for every non-Royals fan to see... It gave them a whole new layer of laughing to help get through the rough days.

**DeezNutz** · 05-24-2011, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Sure-Oz

Pretty sure Soria goes on a longterm DL, they better have Andrews check out his arm

1 TJ surgery already.

Montero would look nice in our minors (hindsight obvious)

You don't trade closers for a player who won't stick at catcher!!!! Forget the fact that he projects as an elite bat. We don't need those.

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