Exactly.

Adam Jones had a bad series. And the guy who REALLY killed them was Steve Pearce. That guy stranded the population of Papua New Guinea in that series.

If the Royals had lost this series, it would have been on Cain/Hosmer/Moustakas for not performing (and still might).

They'll get McHugh again on Wednesday, and I think KC beats the shit out of him. I imagine Houston will also be willing to go to Keuchel for 3-4 innings, but hopefully KC can jump to a big lead early and not let Keuchel be the deciding factor.

And if he is? Well, goddamn. Bully for him.

Yeah, I do hate their stadium, but wouldn't care if they made it to the World Series. :shrug:



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I got home 2 hours after it started and luckily my dumbass friends have learned not to text me. I was able to avoid knowing anything and watched the game completely through.

What an amazing game!

Does someone have video of the Gore call?

Yup, I don't blame other teams when we lose, it's usually on our guys.


Did you meet your new child yet?!?!?

Agreed...
And that SHIT UMP behind the plate completely missed Strike 3 on Correa right before the homer.....

Yeah exactly. I was going to post "great series - you guys completely outplayed us" - in the thread on another forum that's about 2/3 Astros fans.

Now the Blue Jays OTOH. I really don't like them.

Wait. What??

You'd rather have Tiny Tim than Madson? :eek:

Watching the last 2 innings again, drinking progressively more...

hate to break it to you

but the Cubs, with their lineup and bench depth, and Arrieta/Lester is FAR scarier than the Cards ... and FAR scarier than the Dodgers (no lineup).

I personally want a Cubs/Royals WS ... but ideally we face the Cardinals, as, IMHO, they are the least talented team left in the playoffs

No video, but this might help:

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Just so yall know, i started watching in the top of thr 6th inning

I really feel like our guys grew up a lot in this series. Even though they struggled against Kuechel - they pushed him to 130 pitches in what 7 innings? When have we EVER done that? It seemed like they were much more selective, every AB was a "professional at bat".

And they continued that today - it just took until the 8th inning for the floodgates to finally open. Even Moose's strikeout was an incredibly tough AB. If they keep that same focus Wednesday I think they romp.

Imagine how good we can be with a little more plate discipline? Even Salvy has looked much better this offseason. I think we're a much better team right now than last year at this time - when let's be honest, pretty much everything went our way until the WS.

the Gore call was embarrassingly bad ... how in the world can they overturn that?

and they really need to make a rule against the defender being able to force a base runner off the base like that ...

I assumed he was kidding ... or he doesn't watch the Royals

Exactly. He popped up quickly to avoid landing on the defender's arm and because he already slid into the guy's leg. The play should basically be dead once the runner touches the base safely and the defender has the ball but is continuing being over the bag. It's essentially the defender forcing the runner off by holding a tag and it's happened more than once this year.

Watching the last two innings again, still all good.

Go here:

http://thebiglead.com/2015/10/12/mlb...s-royals-game/

Yeah basically instant replay demands zero margin for error on the base runner, whereas umps aren't going to see or call a fielder's nudging the runner off the base unless it's blatantly obvious. The scales are really tipped to the fielder right now.

And even then - I saw nothing but wrist hit Gore's butt.

Great lesson got Gore, next time the asshole puts his foot on that side of the bag, do your thing...

I pretty much conceded to an Astros fan I worked with. I felt no resentment I just felt like they beat us. Then the tide turned.

On the Madson thing. I'm good with Madson I'm just personally more comfortable with Herrera for some reason. It's not a big gap. Obviously, Wade Davis is the only one that truly puts me at ease these days.

O's fans are so bitter they riot at a drop of a hat. Whoop too soon?

I agree. I've seen it a few times this year where it's bothered me before today.

Gloating (WE'RE GOING TO THE ALCS. CRUSH CITY. BLAH BLAH) and offering to fight a fan wednesday in KC. Clearly he's been nothing but respectful.

I think they thought after so many years of taking a back seat to the Yanks, Red Sox and even Rays - that last year was finally their year. They had just won with a bunch of dramatic comebacks vs. Detroit's LOLpen, had home field in a best of 7 and clearly thought they had the best team. They never counted on the Royals pushing their shit in.

Apparently people from Baltimore don't respond well to Surprise Buttsecks.

Dammit - the 3rd time watching and Moose's liner still goes foul. Just a millisecond later on the swing and that's in the corner and Dyson is flying around the bases.

It was a shitty attempt at over-exaggerration to make my point.

I still don't like Madson, though. I'd definitely prefer that we do everything we can to have him not pitch in a tight situation tomorrow.

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Those were the best Royals to me. Cain would have caught that though. THAT was a fun time. Trying to bust through the Yankees. And I always loved Billy Martin.

No ejections. LMAO

I love love love when Brett just jumps up swinging.

Brew Dutera - greatest walk in Royals' history?

It looks like Castro had a chance on the Butera dribbler to grab it before it went foul, but chose not to for some reason. Bad choice.

Also lol @ the dumbass announcers saying the walk was good because it sets up the double play. This after bemoaning that Correa got an error. Just piss poor.

That Gore slide was bulshit, if I'm a base runner and I see the player block the base like he did I'm sliding spikes first as hard as I can into his leg with intent to break it. Then he pushes Gore off with the tag absolute horse shit.

I suspect that in some late night MLB exec conference call they're talking about the beast they just created. Between the broken leg and calls like this, the players might react less nicely than they might hope.

Brett didn't get tossed.


That's awesome.

Yea, not sure how but baseball must have been different then!

Ah the good old days. You old bastards are so lucky.

And I assume there was zero (or very little) chance of suspension for that kind of stuff back then?

For those who have grown up in the world of suspensions and what not, that's a good example of why the stupid bench clearing argument shit happens these days... they've removed all of the fighting (when was the last time someone actually charged the mound?), but everyone still goes through the motions like shit's about to go down.

The strikeout the ump didn't call on Butera was about 6" lower than the one he did call on Esky. Makeup call obv.

Best part was Brett's punch directly nailed Nettles right on the top of his head!!!!

Right, as usual.

Lol again dumbass announcers calling Holland going down a loss. Best thing that happened to us.

Can you imagine today's game with a one run lead and Holland pitching the 9th? I would literally have pulled a Fred Sanford and be dead on my floor.

Yeah, I'm surprised he hasn't been fined by the network or something. He was on there name-calling and talking about people's moms and stuff.

I'm not sure I'd wanna face the Cubs or the Mets right now either.

Aces don't matter.

I was appalled by the decision to overturn the Gore slide ...

but imagine if they overturned the Utley play against the Royals

I don't know what I would have done ... something I probably would have regretted

If Ned won't yell Moose will!

I agree and would look at Hoch.

Never mind, let's keep the formula going.

The Wade Davis strikeouts looking to Rasmus and Tucker are just so nasty. We are in the presence of greatness.

I'll meet them on Wednesday. Pretty excited.

Provoked by being called names and offered to have a beer in KC and if wanted to take it further he was game. I notice a lot of people here like to talk shit to posters from behind a keyboard. No harm calling there bluff.

Oh, I'm sooooooo glad u broke that out today. So glad.

Yeah, enjoy it while it lasts. There will be other closers down the line, they probably won't be pitching like this. The last two years our closer had a 1.21 and 1.44 ERA, which is ridiculous... and we replaced him with a guy who has a 0.94 ERA this year.

ROFL This should be ****ing immortalized. It is this board to a T. Every time a KC sports team plays.

I'd give him an extension right now.

Mellinger is really coming into his own. http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt...e38891583.html

We may have been spoiled with Posnanski and Whitlock (before he went full reerun) for so many years. But I still remember the Gib Twyman/Jonathan Rand times. Here let me reiterate the obvious in a really bland way. Dark dark days those were.

Wade Davis is in the Mariano Rivera category. On another level.

Even with two innings left and a 1 run lead, who here didn't think we were going to win?

You seem nice.

I just went back and read from post 700 to around 1550. This thread is one of the best ever on this site, and you're all awesome. LMAO

I drove to Springfield and back today. Anybody that saw me on the road during the eighth and ninth innings might have thought I was a legitimate madman driving down the road, lol.

My girlfriend is a die-hard As fan. I think she's still mad from last year but to her credit he doesn't bitch (except for us "taking a break" for one day after the WC game last year). However my celebrating this year seems to have induced some sort of PTSD.

Good thing I'm heading back to KC for game 5 and won't see her for over a week!

I'll take good care of her.

Last year you should have PIIHB to make her feel better

You don't know how true this statement is. And yes I did :D

Awesome.

Zobrist made a point about Butera's AB. What a badass moment that was. Pure props to that guy. Zobrist said it right ... that was a PROFESSIONAL AB.

My 13 year old son said that... he was on the school bus home, and he couldn't believe that Butera got 10 pitches thrown at him. I couldn't either. I was like damn, that was a MLB at-bat, right there.

Good shit. This is the kind of game that could propel them like last year.

You and I apparently both made the same reply to Matt Davis on twitter tonight.

Knowing what you think of Butera's ability with the bat, that's saying a lot.

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What

Try driving around in a patrol car. Everyone is always staring and I fist pumped a lot during the comeback. I'm sure citizens thought I was jerking and driving.

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I'll own mine. It was over. O. V. E. R.

I'm still in shock that we pulled that off. I'll never doubt this group of guys again.

Once again though, it goes far beyond normal the regular "oh noes!".... I'm still trying to process HTF that happened.

-- They were dead at the plate. I would have predicted a WC comeback before what happened yesterday.

-- The worst possible thing happened the previous inning with Rios, who had struck out twice on 6 total pitches. He should have been the final out, but had to lead off again. So, he singles and walks in the same inning.

-- Had I guessed how the Royals could have possible comeback, I would have guessed home runs + craziness... maybe a walk or two, a couple errors, stolen bases... maybe a run or two in both remaining innings. Not so much tripling their number of hits in one inning (or whatever it was) with the merry-go-round of players with 5 straight hits... all with Rios leading off, Butera walking, and some craziness mixed in with the error.

That's cool. But there's a different headline on the paper version in KC.

From Gloom

To BOOM!!

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Still my favorite quote from yesterdays thread. This little bauble of funniness inside a thread of madness. Just money:clap:

Of course C3HIEF3S is always one of the better posters in Royals threads, but still, the timing of that post made me :deevee: in laughter.

What a dipshit. Not because you were discouraged by what seemed to be probable outcome of the game.

It's dipshittery because you took th long awaited chance to blame this game on the "entitlement" of the team, on the "I don't give a shit attitude" of the manager,

Pete, you should get up in the morning and do the exact opposite of whatever the little hamster on the wheel that powers your brain tells you what to do.

Try it.

Captain Hindsight. Next you'll tell us all how you knew we would win. You have a very unhealthy and disturbing obsession with me. Seek help.

Anyone who is bashing participants in the GDT for calling it game over after the Astros teed off on Madson need to get a grip ... Find me one post of optimism about the series after the end of the 7th inning.

Hell, I was as optimistic as anyone and even I had tipped my cap to the Astros after that.

Dude, I committed Harakiri after Correa's shot in the 6th. I bled out and was brought back to life in the 8th inning.:D