*** Official Kansas City Royals @ Chicago White Sox Game Thread (4/24) ***

[alnorth]

	Suspended - resume 4/26, 1:10 pm	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
	KC	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0		2	8	2
	CWS	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0		2	7	0

Danny Duffy 5⅓IP 1R 0ER 1BB 3K
Jason Frasor 0IP 0R 0ER 1BB 0K
Blown Save, (1) Franklin Morales 1IP 1R 1ER 0BB 0K
Chris Young 1⅔IP 0R 0ER 1BB 3K

VS.



Jose Quintana 7IP 2R 2ER 1BB 5K
Zach Putnam 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K

Home Runs

none

AL Central

Final: CLE 13, DET 1
Final: MIN 0, SEA 2

KC

1. Alcides Escobar, SS
2. Mike Moustakas, 3B
3. Lorenzo Cain, CF
4. Eric Hosmer, 1B
5. Kendrys Morales, DH
6. Alex Gordon, LF
7. Salvador Perez, C
8. Paulo Orlando, RF
9. Omar Infante, 2B

CWS

1. Adam Eaton, CF
2. Melky Cabrera, LF
3. Jose Abreu, 1B
4. Avisail Garcia, RF
5. Alexei Ramirez, SS
6. Adam LaRoche, DH
7. Gordon Beckham, 3B
8. Tyler Flowers, C
8. J.B. Shuck, ph
8. Geovany Soto, ph/C
9. Micah Johnson, 2B
9. Emilio Bonifacio, ph/2B

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by wazu

I share the frustration, but I don't think it's that dire. I think it comes down to one player who is gonna have to turn the other cheek and refuse to be baited/trolled. If Ace can be Mr. Chill, everything else will fall in line. This is not a team of hotheads.

we hit their guy in the forearm ... barely

They hit our guy in the face

I would tend to be pissed too.


We've been hit like 16 times(?) in 16 games.

Just take a second and think about that. We have a better "hit batter average" than many players have batting average.

[tk13]

I wonder if they'll just issue warnings to both teams before the game and be done with it.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by tk13

I wonder if they'll just issue warnings to both teams before the game and be done with it.

fine with me

nobody gets hit on either side

sounds good

but that won't happen


It will be ...

Chicago will hit a Royal AND THEN the warning so again the Royals get hit with no retaliation without ejection

or

The Royals will hit someone and get ejected immediately, no warning at all

[Great Expectations]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

fine with me

nobody gets hit on either side

sounds good

but that won't happen


It will be ...

Chicago will hit a Royal AND THEN the warning so again the Royals get hit with no retaliation without ejection

or

The Royals with hit someone and get ejected immediately, no warning at all

Unfortunately I think this is probably right. After the extra inning game yesterday a pregame warning might work today, but it will carry over to the next game with the Sox. I think we've squashed it. We probably have to turn our tail one time.

[beer bacon]

Originally Posted by wazu

I share the frustration, but I don't think it's that dire. I think it comes down to one player who is gonna have to turn the other cheek and refuse to be baited/trolled. If Ace can be Mr. Chill, everything else will fall in line. This is not a team of hotheads.

So like when Moose got hit in the face and took first like a pro?

[beer bacon]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

fine with me

nobody gets hit on either side

sounds good

but that won't happen


It will be ...

Chicago will hit a Royal AND THEN the warning so again the Royals get hit with no retaliation without ejection

or

The Royals with hit someone and get ejected immediately, no warning at all

Or there is a pregame warning. The Sox bean Cain in the first anyways. We get multiple players/coaches ejected, but the pitcher that hit our guy stays in the game.

[Iowanian]

I haven't been able to watch much so far this year, because the games haven't been on in Iowania.....but the truth is, I kind of like the team pissed off and feeling like everyone is out to get them. I can't think of a better way to keep them focused and not getting too big of heads based on last years success.

[wazu]

Originally Posted by beer bacon

So like when Moose got hit in the face and took first like a pro?

Yes.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

I haven't been able to watch much so far this year, because the games haven't been on in Iowania.....but the truth is, I kind of like the team pissed off and feeling like everyone is out to get them. I can't think of a better way to keep them focused and not getting too big of heads based on last years success.

If you have Mediacom, I think they are on somewhere. They are definitely on in DSM. You have to flip through all the regional FSN channels because the TV listings are sometimes incorrectly saying that they are showing a different game.

[cmh6476]

Let's kick some ass

[Halfcan]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

I haven't been able to watch much so far this year, because the games haven't been on in Iowania.....but the truth is, I kind of like the team pissed off and feeling like everyone is out to get them. I can't think of a better way to keep them focused and not getting too big of heads based on last years success.

It really seems like teams Are out to hurt them. I don't remember seeing anything like this before-except maybe in the late 70's-but that was against the Yankees-not the entire MLB.

[tk13]

Originally Posted by beer bacon

Or there is a pregame warning. The Sox bean Cain in the first anyways. We get multiple players/coaches ejected, but the pitcher that hit our guy stays in the game.

That would probably be the one advantage to a pregame warning. If they hit a Royal, the pitcher will be tossed pretty much no matter what. If they don't issue a warning they can hit us first and then get the warning.

That's the drawback to a pregame warning, it can scare pitchers from going inside because if they hit somebody they're probably getting tossed no matter what.

[kcfanXIII]

They liked us as a doormat.
They liked us as a cinderella.
They hate as defending league champs.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by Halfcan

It really seems like teams Are out to hurt them. I don't remember seeing anything like this before-except maybe in the late 70's-but that was against the Yankees-not the entire MLB.

I haven't every seen anything like this except maybe the Royals/Yankees in the 70's/80's.

Even then it was just 2 teams, this is several.

[PunkinDrublic]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

i've pretty much concluded that the Royals are going to be considered 'Wrong' no matter what happens.

1. other team hits our batter first

Royals shouldn't retaliate because it's just baseball

2. Royals hit their batter first

Other team is free to retaliate because it's just baseball

If the Royals get spiked,hit,talked shit to,shot with a handgun ... just take it because that's baseball.

even some of our own fans will rationalize it so that the Royals are in a no-win situation


I'm not sure the Royals can survive an entire season with this kind of abuse. By the end of the year they are going to be so beat up that they won't have much left.

Harold Reynolds made a good point last night. He said a lot of public opinion has turned against Yordano Ventura because he talked shit to league golden boy Mike Trout.