2009 Kansas City Royals Repository.

[WilliamTheIrish]

All Royals All The Time!

After consultation with others who peruse the game threads we decided to create this as a repository for all things Royals. Minor league news, AL (ahem) Central (thanks Vonne) news and anything Royals can be found here.

alnorth will continue the game threads as usual. But if you locate something of interest.. ANYTHING.. deals on apparel, best ways in/out of the stadium, giveaways, great stories from this season or from seasons gone by, rumors, trades, anything.... feel free to post it here.

If a big story breaks, you can still start a thread about it. There is merely an all inclusive thread that will make a easy for us all to keep up with all things Royals.


Welcome! "Grab a Brew... don't cost nuthin"...[spills beer on feet]


Courtesy of ari:

Hey William... add this link to the opening post, if you want.

here. Free MLB radio... acts like you are a Holiday Inn customer... then you sign in with your MLB login

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http://guest.ichotelsgroup.com/in_ro...Language=en-US

[Demonpenz]

Grienke sent in to strike out tornado's

[Demonpenz]

Help sent for midwest tornado's (atchison Times)


In a move that stunned most people and babies. Zack Grienke has been sent out to tornado hunt, in hopes to ruin their shit before they get started. With his 4 pitches he hopes to confuse, destroy, possibly even make love, to f4 and f5 tornado's. Mayor Mayerson from atchison ks issued this statement

"Zack Grienke will be sent out to stomp a mother ****ing hole in those tornado's asses"

It is unsure if Catcher Miguel Olivo will be sent out with him, due to the fact his swings and misses maybe the actual cause of the tornado's


*Stock footage of Olivo striking out, then stock footage of miguel signing autographs, and more stock footage of olivo in watermelon eating contest"


Fans from across the state have lined up to see Zack in action

WHOOOO HOOO ZACK BABY WHOO HOOO one fan yelled
WHOO HOO I WANT TO **** YOU...
Sick dude wtf some other fans exjaculated

[teedubya]

I heard on Jim Rome... he was talking about Greinke... said, there were no adjectives to describe him that were good enough... said a major leaguer told him, that Greinke has "**** You Stuff"... sick.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Hochevar was stellar in Omaha again last night. Hi line:

8 innings - 5 hits - 0 runs - 0 earned runs - 0 BB - 9 K's

He got a no decision because the pen coughed up the lead. The back end of the rotation from davies on down needs to be pitching with Hochevar's picture in their locker.

Cause he's taking somebodys job.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Shit, repost. Ari beat me to it.

[Sure-Oz]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Hochevar was stellar in Omaha again last night. Hi line:




He got a no decision because the pen coughed up the lead. The back end of the rotation from davies on down needs to be pitching with Hochevar's picture in their locker.

Cause he's taking somebodys job.

It's great to see him continue it, i know the highest pitch count he's had has been 80 or so. Know how many he threw last night?

He is the Zack Grienke of the minors, his era is down to 0.90

[Great Expectations]

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[Jenson71]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Hochevar was stellar in Omaha again last night. Hi line:




He got a no decision because the pen coughed up the lead. The back end of the rotation from davies on down needs to be pitching with Hochevar's picture in their locker.

Cause he's taking somebodys job.

I want his big ears to grace Kauffman so badly.

[WilliamTheIrish]

http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/mlb...ex.jsp?c_id=kc

...former top pick Luke Hochevar struck out nine in eight scoreless frames before Omaha fell to Memphis, 3-2

[WilliamTheIrish]

Nice write up for Matt Palmer, tonight starter for the Angels. Former Missouri State grad.

http://losangeles.angels.mlb.com/new...=.jsp&c_id=ana

ANAHEIM -- As he surveyed the baseball landscape, a graduate of Missouri State University with a degree in horticulture, Matt Palmer always figured he could find a place in the sun and make a career flower with sufficient care and nurturing.

He'd planted seeds, starting in 2002, in places such as Salem-Keizer, Ore.; Hagerstown, Md.; Norwich, Conn., Fresno, Calif. He entertained visions of creating something long and lasting on the mound, whether as a closer or a starter. It just never seemed to take root.

And now, remarkably -- four years after he had all but abandoned hope -- Matt Palmer has blossomed at age 30.

His two starts have resulted in wins. He's been good and the Angels needed that after the Adenhart ordeal..
12.1 innings 9 hits 5 BB's 5 ER. .196 BAA.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Angels recently optioned Brandon Wood to Salt Lake. He kicked ass in 'Zona.

http://losangeles.angels.mlb.com/new...=.jsp&c_id=ana

[WilliamTheIrish]

Wish I could find more info on Blaine Hardy. He pitched again last night and gave up an ER plus an inherited run in one inning of work (2 run HR). He didn't walk anybody and didn't K anybody.

He has 28 K's and ZERO BB in 23.2 innings.

[WilliamTheIrish]

For those that haven't followed it, Chris Hayes is blogging during the season for AAA Omaha. It's pretty good. He did an interview with MiLB.com that I enjoyed.

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/n...milb&fext=.jsp

Here's a link to the blog itself.

http://discohayes.mlblogs.com/

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

For those that haven't followed it, Chris Hayes is blogging during the season for AAA Omaha. It's pretty good. He did an interview with MiLB.com that I enjoyed.

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/n...milb&fext=.jsp

Here's a link to the blog itself.

http://discohayes.mlblogs.com/

(edit: Just noticed you said he was at Omaha. He might get to Omaha later this year, but he's at AA NW Arkansas right now)

Chris "Disco" Hayes is a very interesting story, and he's become a bit of a cult favorite among hard-core Royals fans. (Now that Rowdy Hardy has kind of faded out) I'm really rooting for him to make it. He was given his nickname during an interview with Rany, who was the guy who originally called Soria the Mexicutioner.

Last year the Arizona Fall League asked him to write a guest blog, no topic just on whatever. His entry was so hilarious that he was immediately given his own blog and Rany did a two part interview of him for baseball prospectus. Rany's evaluation of him as a prospect after the interview was also hopeful.

Quick history: undrafted out of college, he pitched 1 year with an independent team, pitched in South America, then was invited to a couple tryouts. After failing to get signed in the first tryout he heard the Royals were having an open tryout for all comers, so he drove over to Surprise and was the only guy signed out of that open tryout. Since then, he's pitched well enough to get promoted to AA, but this year has been easily his best so far. He's throwing one of the best lines for NW Arkanses with a 3-0 record out of relief, 0.96 ERA, 1.07 WHIP in 18.2 IP. He's a submarine pitcher which means he doesnt get (and doesnt need) many strikeouts, because he has a rediculous groundball/fly ratio of 3.90

[alnorth]

The last two questions in that MiLB interview were so hilarious, they have to be reposted here

MiLB.com: Including yourself, there are seven individuals with the name "Chris Hayes" who have their own Wikipedia entries. Do you foresee a coming Chris Hayes revolution, in which more and more people with that name assume a place of prominence in American society?

Chris Hayes: First and foremost, I'm flattered you've typed my name in a Wikipedia search. Secondly, I just tried it and this is fun. We have an ex-NFL player, an ex-NHL player, Huey Lewis & The News' guitarist and backup vocalist, an Australian politician, a Canadian sky diver, and a journalist. You may say, "Wow, we'd make an outstanding team of superheroes that could attack via gridiron, ice, or through the air ... all while singing and lying our way past our enemies and then spreading the word of our work across the world." You'd be correct.

But here's the bad news I have to break -- all seven of those Chris Hayes' are me. You need proof? I'll just give you some coincidences that may just have you scratching your head.

The NFL-er and I both did not get drafted in 2005. Neither the NHL-er nor I are engraved on the Stanley Cup. With the publication of this article, both the musician and I are in The News. The politician and I come from down under. The baseball player and I are strikingly good-looking.

The journalist and I are both, well journalists ... and we were married in Chicago in 2007 ... though not to each other. So you see, it's not that there's a community of Chris Hayes' taking over the world, it's that I'm taking over the world and one Wikipedia article just can't handle me. I'm so big, I need seven articles.

What's that? I only mentioned six? OK, fine ... I wouldn't be caught dead jumping out of a plane.

MiLB.com: Finally -- have you ever spent time on an actual submarine? If not, then isn't a little disingenuous for you to have adopted such a style?

Chris Hayes: Has your tongue ever literally been in your cheek? A little hypocritical on your part here, eh?