Someone needs to kneecap Kendall. I'm sick of seeing him starting every ****ing game. He is 1-26 in his last 26 AB's. Meanwhile Pena's last AB he hit a double. And we need to get Betemit some playing time as well. That guy can hit, or so it seems. 4-8 with 2 doubles and 2 HR's.

Check out Rany's latest update. He discusses the Kendall situation.

The descent of Kendall to the Berroa meter is continuing....as I expected. Yuni's descent will start soon.

Splitt in the booth all three games against the Astros. He sounds good so far in the pregame.

That was a good article. Especially the part about DDJ. I really, really don't see the need for this team to trade him. He is a person this team can use to build on. If you trade away your best player you just start all over again, imo. He is more than deserving of the higher contracts we have shelled out for lesser players, so there should be no issues about paying him. And as Rany says, if we did trade DDJ it would more than likely hurt the team. That tells me trading him is stupid.

First game I get to watch this year. The Astros announcers kind of blow (worse the LeFevre believe it or not). I watch them every once in while because I need to get my baseball fix. They have been playing some ugly baseball this season... not like I'm not used to that, though.

He does sound better than his last time out but it still hurts to hear him like this

1st inning
 

Top 1st

Bourn walks
Keppinger grounds into a 5-4-3 double play, Bourn out at second
Berkman grounds out to pitcher

0 runs, 0 hits

Bottom 1st

Podsednik hits an infield single to shortstop
Kendall flies out to center
DeJesus singles to center, Podsednik to second
Butler singles to left, DeJesus to second, Podsednik scores
Guillen strikes out (swinging)
Callaspo flies out to left

1 run, 3 hits

Well, this is odd and worrying.

Mike Montgomery is done today after 3 2/3 innings. Only 56 pitches, 1 walk, 2 hits and 1 run given up, seemed to be doing fine in a tie game. No idea why he got pulled so early, hopefully he's OK.

DDJ future Royal HOF'er?

I hate watching Kendall bat 2nd...

Way to go Butler!

NW_Ark_Naturals

Mike Montgomery working on a limited pitch count goes 3.2 IP, 2 H, R, BB, 3 K on 56 pitches

cool.

I might lag behind a bit on the updates, gotta finish laundry. Hopefully the 2nd inning is dull with nothing interesting to miss.

edit: looks like its not ready yet, so 3rd or 4th inning.

I agree with Rany, DDJ is rather underrated. I'd guess primarily due to his past injuries. But the guy is a good, solid baseball player and we need to keep him on this team. If we are truly trying to build a team that can compete why would you trade him and what would you trade him for? And more over, how could you trade him without hurting the team?

I do not want to see him traded for guys we hope will be ready 3-5 years from now. That would just be stupid.

why the hell did the royals give out Piss colored T-Shirts

How old is DDJ?