Against my better judgement, I'm heading out to Guaranteed Rape this afternoon. I'm wearing my Nique Wilkins windmill dunk socks in the land of Jordan in memory of Dave Owen.

Found it - Royalsreview stated we would be first since 1915 As to lose 109 theee seasons after winning it all. Kinda lame criteria there. Suffice it to say, few teams have 100 losses so soon. That's undeniable, how bad we crashed.

Um, so did we. Cain, Hosmer, Moose, Davis, Herrera, all those guys are gone because we couldn't afford to keep them. Maybe we aren't a WS team anymore with all those guys, but they wouldn't be a 100 loss team either.

In losing cycles PB becomes PB Prime. Just roll with it - he's one of the more underrated trolling guys out there.

He's PB Zeus in the KU Football threads

The WS team capitalized on incredible seasons from Chris Young and Ed Volquez. Duffy and Hochevar were also effective bullpen pieces that kind of showed up out of nowhere. Madsen was also a gift. They had just enough luck to get by with a sturdy set of starters and got even BETTER long relief bullpen pieces.

It's lucky when you hit those pieces at the right time, but so many of them were short timers or guys who would crash back to reality. Throw in the fact that we had to get rid of the meat of our starters, and that's why this crash took place.

The only way to prevent it was to go through the sell-off much sooner and more aggressively. That's what some of us wanted but the Royals chose differently. Oh well. Too bad.

Who cares if our bottoming out was 90 losses or 110 losses? It was going to happen. Bitching about the degree of the bottom out is kind of... well... stupid

The White Sox today have foolishly tested the arms of Alex Gordon and Brett Phillips.

Bitching is a bit of an overstatement. But it's fair to ask why this team is losing so many games. I've argued they should be winning more based on their talent. That's debateable but it's what I think.


Consider how awful this division is. All the teams suck. Cleveland even sucks. An ugly -6 under .500 against non division). If we were in the West or the AL Beast, holy hell we'd be challenging 119 losses. I

The difference between winning and losing is a thin line. Y'all laugh at my opinion that it's entirely possible this is a competitive club as early as next year, but things like Phillips' arm in center and the increase in team speed across the board with the trades-those things are what can make the difference. I'm not saying they're a play-off team in 2019, but I would not be shocked to be within shouting distance of .500 IF any of the young pitchers work out.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Per our Statcast, that Brett Phillips throw from center came in hot at 100.1 mph -- third-hardest outfield assist in MLB this season. It&#39;s also the hardest outfielder throw ever by a Royal since Statcast launched in 2015.</p>&mdash; Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) <a href="https://twitter.com/FlannyMLB/status/1025103851224014849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Whit pinch hit 3-run homer in the 8th!

Royals up 3-2.

Whitley, OH MY

First Royals pinch-hit homer since Aug. 18, 2014

And the bullpen just gave up a homer.

Game tied.

Well that lead didn't last long.