What a much needed win!!

LOL Nah, we're just realistic. We want a real contender. No reason to fault the pessimists/realists. We don't get a turn at the dish, nor do we have a blown save to our names. We don't even want to be right. We're just honest.

That's only the second time in 31 games this year that Clay Holmes has given up an ER in a game. That's a great comeback.

Right how? You're all just ****ing dumb.

Nice win.

Or just being dumbasses. The Royals are the seventh best team in all of baseball and after this weekend, have an extremely easy next 50 games.

The Royals will finish 132-30 and win the World Series after sweeping through the playoffs! BOOKMARK THIS POST!!!!

They keep finding ways!

They're just miserable ****ing idiots. ThIs TEam isNT A CoNTEnder! As if they're not a ****ing wild card leader and just happened to go through a rough stretch.

I've got to a point where I'm just gonna enjoy the ride...if they suck, oh well what else is new and football is on the horizon and if they continue to be really good...**** yeah.

The season Maikel Garcia has put together so far is pretty overlooked and under appreciated.

Maikel is one piece worthy of longterm inclusion in our rebuild plan. Beyond the trio of BWJ, Garcia, and Ragans, who else is deserving? Massey has potential.

Yeah but are you really? This team just played the 3 AL division leaders back to back and went 4-5 with two of the best comebacks of the season in that mix. And if they had some better arms in the bullpen they might be 6-3 in this stretch.

They score a lot of runs and there's talent in the rotation. You add a couple bullpen arms and there's no reason to think team can't make a run at the wild card. Even in these tough last couple weeks almost every single time they're behind they fight and claw their way back into games. They look exactly like a team who is competitive but needs a boost.

"Being honest" to you means "being a douche" to everyone else.

I'm not a baseball expert but get some bullpen help and an OF and we should be in it for the playoffs. Do we have anything we can trade though?

Singer, Pasquantino

Marsh has looked damn good so far. Fermin has looked really good.

LOL You guys are the emotional ones. Listen to yourselves.

Nothing but love, fellas. Pls don't kill me. I'd rather grouphug it out at the George Brett Statue, but if you insist we can have a pissing contest. o:-)

I was seconds away from saying I needed to take a few days off from the royals.

now let's go win the series against the team with the dumbest fanbase in all of baseball!

WE OWN THE YANKEES ASS!!!

Nice! 1-3 feels so much better than a sweep it’s not even funny

Next time I need a douche translator, I'll be sure to remember you speak it.

The realists want the Royals to be good. The sunshine pumpers seem to want the Royals to be off limits to criticism, and their emotional outbursts are quite telling. Not a look I prefer for myself, but every message board will have them.

Enjoy the victory today. I am.

Yankee SS might have had the ball before putting his foot between Witt and the base.

The wording of the rule needs to be changed to say that you cannot intentionally obstruct the base runner in order to get a tagout you would not get without the obstruction.

Now that replays are strictly reviewed and now that breaking up DPs and running over catchers is severely limited. That was bullshit for the Yankee SS to risk injury to Witt's hand, and having the ball already really does not make the blocking off the base okay.

Good Lord, did they need that

Most excited about Marsh

Legit found command this year

Whoever fixed him needs a raise.

You all keep saying the same shit, but it makes absolutely no sense. Explain to me how this team isn't a contender? They have the 4th highest run differential in the AL and the 6th/7th highest in the MLB. They have the 4th best record in the AL and the 7th best in the ML. They're 5th in the entire ML in runs scored and 11th in runs allowed. They are 25-14 at home and 15-16 on the road.

So how the **** is this team not a contender?

You know as well as I do the bullpen is a liability. And as good as the starting pitching was to start the season, where they stand at the end of the season will require guys like Brady Singer to not regress to previous, dreadful levels of performance. Yes, the run differential is impressive and undeniable. But I’m not convinced it will be a lasting trend. I know you won’t like that answer, but it is hard to put faith in a roster with as many below replacement level guys as this one features. Do you really have legitimate faith in our supporting cast? Does our featured cast even have enough players to justify unwavering optimism?

I want you to be right, believe it or not. But I’m not inclined to join the chorus of “The Royals have officially arrived, quit nitpicking!” posters. I don’t begrudge you. If you can circle back in October and shame me, I’ll be as thrilled as you that I’ll have to eat crow. You won’t even have to force feed me. I’m just not as optimistic as you. The franchise’s track record has quite a bit to do with that.

PBJ

**** the yankmees! The good guys win!

Nothing wrong with being realistic on both sides. The Royals so far are a much improved team who play an exciting brand of baseball. They have some excellent numbers thus far. One number that can't be ignored is that they are 3-7 vs the top 2 teams in the AL. So, are they a contender? Depends what you mean. For the playoffs? As of June 13th, absolutely. To win a pennant or beyond? Only in the sense that they Pittsburgh Steelers were a contender for the Super Bowl last year in that you have a greater than 0% chance if you make the tournament. But this current team as it's constructed doesn't have the horses to regularly beat the top teams (as evidenced by the 3-7 record). Great pitching (like the kind you face in the playoffs) can keep the Royals top guys at bay and destroy the MJ Melendez types. Great hitters (like the kind you face in the playoffs) will feast on the Nick Andersons types. Will the Royals make moves to improve those areas? We shall see. But it is becoming more and more clear that we will have an enjoyable summer of baseball and should finish over .500 That's good enough for me (and most reasonable fans) for a team that won 56 games last year.

Big win pepper big win

The Royals didn't win their 40th game until August 18th last year.

This is just a smidge better this year.

This team is significantly better in pretty much ever facet of the game excluding relief pitching. If that team could make the WS, then this team can. All it takes is one hot streak at the right time and anything could happen. If the Royals make the playoffs, then their chances of going all the way are significantly higher than the Steelers were. You can't even compare the two situations.

I dunno Zim. 70 games in and I think this team can compete for a WC. The roster has some warts, but they play hard and are expecting to win. To beat Holmes in that situation is a jewel in the crown.

Zim, I want you to take a close look at this ^^ post above. THIS is an emotional post by an emotional poster.

“Owned by horrific hitters at the bottom of the lineup”.

Let’s take a look at that. Overall the entire Yankee lineup was a sizzling 5/31. A blistering .161. The bottom of the Yankee lineup…**** that the Yankee lineup 3-9 was a solid and spectacular .130. So, not exactly sure what game this vulva was watching, but I saw a much different game.

Pretty solid post by a guy named VAG.

Yessir. Let's have a look.

https://i.postimg.cc/Zn5Sfc98/1f9d0.gif

This one was much more difficult to read in the Wilfred Brimley or Vin Scully voices in which I'm accustomed to reading your posts. I did give it a college try, though.

I do see your point here. But to MAG's credit, he certainly didn't lash out at other posters, nor use any profanity. Not as emotional as it was an embellishment. Or, if you insist, downright inaccurate.

Is anybody else attending the Cubs @ Royals game on Friday, July 26th? Patrick Mahomes Bobblehead Giveaway Night. I'm itching for some fisticuffs. A much better way for reasonable, grown men to sort out their grievances, rather than via emotional posting. You know where to find me.

https://i.postimg.cc/rmtnqRvB/george...e-tom-gort.jpg

I'd propose a sooner date to rumble, however I'm not exactly nearby. That trip will be only my 5th return visit home since moving away in 2017 (first to Austin for 5 years, then Deep South Texas). Two of those trips were for Chiefs games (January 2020 AFC Championship victory over the Titans, and November 2020 waxing of the Jets). After seeing hundreds of games at Kauffman Stadium prior to moving, thrilled to go back finally. Been waaaaaay too long. (In the meantime, we did catch the Royals on the road for games in Boston, Arlington, Houston, and Pittsburgh.)

They're getting clowned by 2 below .500 teams. They are falling apart.