.200 average the 2nd half of last season and hitting in the low .200 1st half of this season. Pretty pathetic right there on his part.

Nice job sitting there on the K teabags

DDJ ties the game 1-1 rbi single in the top 5th

I didn't say that the Cards knew something the rest of the league didn't; I said the Royals are extraordinarily stupid for NOT knowing something that the rest of the league didn't.

I repeat: They had a member of their organization LIVING WITH HIM. They had senior scouts watching him, they had guys within the organization who thought he was a good hitter but they were drafting for need (in the late rounds of the MLB baseball draft ?!?!?).

The fact that they didn't even take a flyer on him in the 10th is mind-boggling. Me saying that there's a difference in organizational aptitude is me stating that the Royals are the most poorly run franchise in the American league (fighting the Pirates for all of baseball). It's not saying that the Cardinals are full of sooth-sayers and talent scouting magicians.

Just got in


GO CARDS

Kyle Davies has been very solid this year. What's the deal with that?

Because he did not project into being a HOF type player..

NICE CATCH

Skip saves a run.

He struck your ass out

That was low

That was low, but he would have struck out anyway.

4321 Duncan

Nice Wiff duncan, you'd belong with the royals for sure....

nice outing by Davies

Bring Mather back up. Duncan is just completely !@#%# in the head right now.

Look what organization drafted him.

How about guillen, 2-3 dbl so far, batting .292 after that horrid start...

Nice little pitcher's dual....Or hitting futility....However you want to look at it I guess.

Braves right??

As bad as the respective lineups are today, the pitchers looked quite good as well.

Both guys were able to command their fastballs and work a pretty wide strikezone. They were both doing a pretty good job with their breaking stuff as well.

When you command your heat and have your breaking stuff going, you've got a quality start in the offing. When you're playing lineups as bad as STL and KC's are...you go 7 with only 1 earned.

Nice play by Aviles

Avilles goes yard!!!

Villone is his usual sharp self. HR Royals, now lead 2-1.

Uggh...villone

****!!!!

That guy sucks fucking balls. It's like LaRussa puts him in to deliberately give up a run. 4321

A sparkling ERA of close to 6 and nearly 1 walk per inning pitched yet because he's f'n lefthanded he gets a spot pitching close game in the MLB :mad:

Izzy warming up.

:deevee:

Good for you Royals fans

Oh great, so we get to here excuses from Al and Dan as to why he is struggling. My favorite is when he walks a couple guys and they say he is "pitching around them" even if it's some scrub.

Well, you can't blame Izzy for that one. Hit or error, that should have been an out.

Wild thing, you make my butt sting

No I actually posted that before the error...that should have been an out for sure.

Lets break this thing open

I originally questioned Daytons decision on the Dotel for Davies trade, but now...wow.

Now it's time to see what a real closer looks like.

Me too.

Time to get NASTY!!!!!

Well, he certainly could have done worse. Other than the hit batter, he was OK.

Love gload thinking he got that one haha

2-1 Royals, bottom of the 9th. Soria in.

Lets see of Soria can wrap this one up.

SIT THE **** DOWN!

2-1 Royals, bottom of the 9th. Filthy Mcnasty pitching.





sick strikeout there

Nasty! 1 out.

That was disgusting. No human being could hit that pitch.

Put Soria on the Yankees and he'd be considered no worse than Papelbon or K-Rod's equal.

This kid is nasty.

At least the shit sucking Cubs lost.

Game

GAME OVER! ROYALS WIN!

Nice!!

I picked a good time to turn the game on.

Aviles>pena jr/sr

Nice pitching effort Royals...good game.

Nice game.

post #122 pls.

Good lord, Remember when the royals website was bragging about the great young bullpen of Mcdougal/Sisco/Burgos.
Times have changed.

Aviles with the pie to the face during his post-game interview. Classic.

I like the Royals, too. It's always depressing for me to watch the Cards and Royals play since one of them has to lose. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, wins for the Cardinals mean more than wins for the Royals since St. Louis is in the division race and leading the NL wild card race. But if they have to lose, better to lose to KC.

i wonder who will represent the royals in the all-star game.....

probably guillen. but i think soria should get it.

Nice to see a middle infield with some pop on the bat...

I hope we trade Grudz sometime so we can get Callaspo regular duty

Plenty of time for him to go south, starting hot after a call-up isn't unusual, but this is really begging the question of why Davies wasn't in the rotation coming out of spring training. Although he did say in an interview that he got a lot of work done in the minors, so I guess it's all good.

ughhh... speak not of those names

i was just thinking of affeldt, runelvys, and denny bautista earlier today....

our staff is immensely better now

they said during the broadcast that he wasn't very good in ST...

davies himself admitted that he was too "amped up" during his starts last year and into ST..

they were attributing his new found success to having a sense of calm this time around

Send ya Duncan for him.

If he can be a solid starter with an era 4-4.50, ill take that in a heartbeat

Wouldn't mind that deal, we need POWER, even if he is sucking

I think it's a good thing the Royals obviously haven't done enough of. It's not just something fans complain about, it seems like management even has been too quick in calling prospects up and almost bypassing AAA. The team needs the help, so why not... you hear it every spring from all angles.... except maybe guys like Gordon, Butler, Greinke, Teahen, would've been better served to actually spend half a season just beating up on AAA teams.

I'd trade him for some bats at this point. 0-4 with a strike out. Useless one who sucks the penis.

You think he's sticking around because of whos son he is?

Duncan has reclaimed more pitching for us from the MLB trash heep that maybe they figure that they owe Duncan's boy more of a shot?

What about your boy Izzy? He did a pretty good job out there tonight.

It seems be be working for Butler to the tune of batting .391 since he's been down. Should work for Gordon as well if he starts slumping again.

They likely won't send Gordon down because of his defense at 3b, he'll have to work the kinks out here.

davies has been absolutely horrible in his major league career before this year.

i think it's time to bring butler back up. there is absolutely no reason why esteban german or tony pena jr. should be on the roster instead of him, with the way mike aviles is playing.

That was the thought last nite at Rookies as well.
Duncan is still here because of his dad.

Izzy, just doesn't have it anymore.

LaRue :Lin: we need somebody better as backup, bring up Gabe Johnson AAA Memphis. Jeez.

Tough to lose this game.