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]


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[DeezNutz]

Gordon is going to be a "nice" ML player.

He's DDJ with more power and less smiles.

[CoMoChief]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

Gordon is going to be one of the many Royals 1st rd busts over the years.

FYP

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

FYP

He's going to be a disappointment, most likely, since the expectations were so high.

But he's a competent ML player, and we need those, too.

[Sure-Oz]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

Gordon is going to be a "nice" ML player.

He's DDJ with more power and less smiles.

Gordon never smiles, he needs some zimbalta or something

maybe if he'd smile more he'd hit HR's

[Sure-Oz]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

He's going to be a disappointment, most likely, since the expectations were so high.

But he's a competent ML player, and we need those, too.

They really should've been high considering how highly touted he was and his minor league #'s were pretty damn good

I think he definetly has the talent but for once id love to see a guy just rake ryan braun/evan longoria style when they are brought up.

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by Sure-Oz

Gordon never smiles, he needs some zimbalta or something

maybe if he'd smile more he'd hit HR's

That's what Joel Goldberg should have asked Gordon's wife about.

Blond chick, why doesn't your husband ever smile? Do you allow him to walk around with consistently dry balls?

I blame Gordon's lack of production on his old lady.

[Sure-Oz]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

That's what Joel Goldberg should have asked Gordon's wife about.

Blond chick, why doesn't your husband ever smile? Do you allow him to walk around with consistently dry balls?

I blame Gordon's lack of production on his old lady.

He's probably got a really bad itch, probably in pain alot because she won't help him

I feel bad for alex, jose lima was always smiling and he gave his wife herpes!

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by Sure-Oz

I feel bad for alex, jose lima was always smiling and he gave his wife herpes!

That's a kind woman.

[sedated]

Originally Posted by CaliforniaChief

I'd love to see him make it up as a SS...

the only thing I heard about Moose is that the royals never thought he would be a SS, and only played him there his first year because it was in his contract, and they moved him the F out of there as soon as they could.

[CoMoChief]

Originally Posted by Sure-Oz

They really should've been high considering how highly touted he was and his minor league #'s were pretty damn good

I think he definetly has the talent but for once id love to see a guy just rake ryan braun/evan longoria style when they are brought up.

Yeah well to be fair, those players also have hitting surrounding them as well. We have........well........Jac..........Dej.......Guil................well no one really.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

Yeah well to be fair, those players also have hitting surrounding them as well. We have........well........Jac..........Dej.......Guil................well no one really.

You have the fine reverse Midas touch of Pete. You could weave a sows ear out of a silk purse.

Jacobs hits a laser beam HR. Teahan HR. DDJ game tying 3b. You should be Pete's monkey.

[WilliamTheIrish]

My favorite minor league Royals player gave up his first base on balls this week

Blaine Hardy Burlington Bees (A) Midwest League:

36.2 inning pitched 40K's gave up his first two BB on May 15th. Had two again last night in a 3 inning appearance.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

Moosetacos' manager on with Petro.

Moose currently playing 3B. Manager thinks he's athletic enough to play SS, but believes Tacos will be an exceptional 3B. Dude thinks Moose will be a hitting star. Has the mentality not to let stuff bother him, good or bad. Off to a good start this season and looks very comfortable at the plate.

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/n...=.jsp&sid=t426

Six different Blue Rocks enjoyed a multi-hit night. Mike Moustakas set a new team-high by extending his hitting streak to 10 with a 3-for-5 night. Paulo Orlando also went 3-for-5, tripling and scoring twice.

[alnorth]

new hilarious bit from the Disco Hayes blog (KC Royals prospect currently pitching in AA, with a blog on MLBlogs.com)

He's become a cult favorite, and on Friday he answers fan mail. Here's two of them:

From It's All Greek to Me--"My calves are really the one and only attribute of my body people might look at in a body catalog and want to order for themselves. My ankles are skinny and athletic-looking and my calves are well defined. Analysts typically wear long pants, so I'm still able to pull off the look without problems, but from the knee down I'm pretty proud of my body. On to examine the masterpiece ... "

Well, can we see the goods?
Liz G., Sucre, Bolivia



Do you have any pet peeves?
Nancy, R. Luxembourg, Luxembourg


Thanks for asking this Nancy. I'm so glad you asked actually. There's one pet peeve that was absolutely driving me nuts tonight. Ah, I'm so glad you asked. In fact, I'm so glad, I actually made you up and asked this question of myself in order to be able to vent about this on Fanmail Friday.

Shower Knob Syndrome (SKS) is an issue that has driven me nuts from the time I was old enough to shower on my own. The showers in the locker room at our home ballpark are the nicest looking showers in the league. The bathroom is completely automated and new and clean and big; the showers have nice pressure and are spacious and private. The entire facility is incredibly nice. But it means nothing to me because the shower knobs suffer from SKS.

In case you are unfamiliar, in order to explain SKS, I will provide a sample of what a typical showering experience for myself or any of my teammates on a given night goes like (try to stay calm ladies, we're talking SKS here, this is serious). For this exercise, please keep in mind according to WikiAnswers.com, a comfortable showering temperature is 105 degrees.

Enter shower.
Shower knob at 6:00 on a clock (pointing straight down), shower off.
Turn knob counter clockwise up to 12:00, shower on, temperature near 130 degrees.
Turn knob to 2:00, temperature 70 degrees.
Knob to 1:00, temperature to 125.
Knob 1:30, temperature 124. 2:00, 70 again.
1:50, 80--too cold.
1:40, 119--too hot.
1:45, 116--too hot.
1:50, 80 ice.
1:48, 98.
1:46, 114. Sigh disgustedly.
1:47, 99. Now we're getting close.
1:46:20, 114.
1:46:50, 99. SOB.
1:46:30, 113. Debate going home sans shower, smelling like a ski lodge.
1:46:35, 112. Fingers getting pruny.
1:46:48, 101.
1:46:05, crap! 120 degrees.
1:46:44, 103.
1:46:42, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, finally 105.

And then...someone flushes the toilet. As you hear the first signs of the flush, your water immediately turns either to scalding or freezing and you have singed skin or body parts running for cover. Repeat process, this time with shampoo in your eyes.

So, yes, Nancy I do have a pet peeve and it's stupid shower knobs that require such precise placement to get a comfortable shower. In the Olympics when the Chinese balance beam-er goes through her routine absolutely flawlessly with grace, athleticism and control and sticks the landing, she gets a 9.82 out of 10. Then the girl from Russia goes and falls off twice, cries for a stanza of her song, and then slowly slides off the beam one foot at a time and weeps at the judges, only to receive a 9.26 out of 10. Why have the scale theoretically go from 0 to 10 when you are only going to give people between a 9.2 and a 9.85 anyway? The shower knob is the same thing. If you're going to have a knob that rotates 180 degrees, why make the desired temperature range one tenth of one percent of a degree. It's probably more complicated than I'm making it and isn't that easy of a fix, so Joe the Plumber, please write in and explain to me why. I haven't seen you on TV for a while, you're probably missing the lime light.

My son and I were big fans of yours in Burlington, Iowa. We loved to see you pitch and you always so kind and friendly to talk to. What are your favorite memories of pitching in Burlington and the Midwest League?
Tom and Will, Burlington, IA


Hey Tom and Will, hope you guys enjoyed the championship run last year! For me, after two tours of duty in Burlington and countless bullpen shenanigans, this was tough to narrow down...

A personal favorite of mine, though, was when the team would rally and a sound effect of bees buzzing would play over the loud speakers (we were the Burlington Bees for those of you who aren't die hard Midwest League fans). In the bullpen in 2006, we started to pretend like we were being swarmed by bees. The Bees (capital B) would hit a run scoring double, the sound effect would play and in the bullpen we would all take our hats off and start swatting and running around in the bullpen like idiots being chased by bees. The sound guy at the field must have started to notice and enjoy the ploy and over the course of the year it became a tradition. By the time 2007 rolled around, it was a hit with the fans, too. When we'd score a run or get the bases loaded, the sound would play and everyone would look down at the bullpen and have a laugh.

We eventually realized we had a captive audience when the sound would play (though only for 5 seconds or so) so we got the idea to, instead of waving our hats and acting like we were being swarmed, perform a short skit for the fans. In the bullpen you have an abundance of free time, so one day in the early innings we planned out all the skits for the late inning rallies. It was a crowded game, which made it a prime opportunity. The first time our team got some momentum at the plate, we lined up like a doubles tennis match and played a point using our hats as rackets. We had two ball boys and a line judge, it was beautiful. The second time it went off, we did a "team lift" where one of us bench pressed his hat, the other squatted his hat, the next one was doing curls with his hat and yet another was doing bent over rows. We did a conga line, ran sprints to the foul line and back to the bench twice, and then ended it with duck duck goose.

In hindsight it probably went completely unnoticed by the fans, but we were having a blast and were giggling like we were back in T-Ball. Can't beat fun at the old ballpark, I guess.

[teedubya]

Tonights loss is painful... bases loaded... 1 out... and don't get ANY runs home in a one run game. Redonkulous.