Oh **** off with this shit.

I will agree with this it is very hypocritical of Moore with all of his holier than thou religious and porn bullshit.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We’re taking you into the future on June 30! Here are the uniforms we’ll be wearing as we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Turn Ahead the Clock Night in Seattle. <a href="https://t.co/ozv6yrVslm">pic.twitter.com/ozv6yrVslm</a></p>&mdash; Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals/status/999735891017990144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I'm not so sure about those

Gross.

I laughed

Shouldn't the crown be gold and the negative space on the helmet be blue?

Not the first time the Royals and Mariners have done "turn ahead the clock" night:

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Does every team do this? I did a search and found some for most teams. Few looked like they should've been worn

The idea is that in the future we develop greater technology but somehow lose our sense of taste.

Who here is old enough to remember this?
http://lavieenrobe.typepad.com/.a/6a...00603df970c-pi
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They need to use that hat without the logo and put the KC on it. It would look sweet.

I'm fine with the silver jumpsuit. I'm just not sure that they'll be able to play baseball in them

Shorts? What were they thinking?

So far, the 2038 Royals can hit.

Love this shit^


GBrett makes an appearance. Age 23

King Felix is, uh, hmm.

Me

Only so many IP a human arm can take

(Not with PEDs - Rocket Clemens)

4-3 Mariners now... I dig these uniforms.

I don't dig the Royals lack of ability.

Good perspective on Heimlich and why Moore’s statements about him are careless and dangerous:

https://medium.com/@JulieDiCaro/luke...s-6c3a9ed25876

Also, not only is this team boring, they also have no fight in them.

This article actually changed my mind completely.. I don't want him in this organization.

This is rather suspicious. Families tend to know more about the situation than strangers.

That, and wouldn't it be a big issue for him wherever he tries to go. I can't imagine most the fellow players being too tolerant of the guy. Even to the point where he's harassed and possibly to the point of a beating. He'll just be a distraction. I can't see any pro team being serious about this or anything good coming out of signing him as he's lucky his family had the money to keep him out of prison

Mercury's bullpen is terrible. They keep blowing leads. If Dayton was patient he could have traded Herrera to them.

Prison? At age 15?

But to be fair, that's kinda expected of a WNBA team.

Weird and random baseball thing of the week....the Reds have a relief pitcher who has homered in his last 3 at bats, including 2 pinch hit homers(1 granny). Kinda cool

I read so many articles on the subject that I forgot that he was only fifteen. So prison jr. then for minors who commit heinous offenses. Not sure that it really matters much which one a pederass goes to or not. I can't imagine that he'd last long in any level in any correctional facility. Many of his fellow inmates would have younger sisters and younger nieces and know how to shank someone

Moore needs to be fired

It’s not suspicious. Our society has a tendency to blame female victims of sexual assaults. It’s normal. Especially when the accused is a good athlete. It’s a disgusting output of the patriarchal society in which we live.

The child’s father, Heimlich’s brother, filed the charges and refuses to have contact with him to this day. That can’t be obscured.

Did you get to the part of the piece where the author talks about what has to happen for charges to be filed?

It’s easy to chalk this up as a he-said, she-said, but that’s not how it actually works. There’s a lot more that has to be present for charges to file.

There is a lot of conflicting information. I thought his uncle/girls dad wanted to speak with him, but he was refusing.

His brother, you mean?

I saw that as well, but it was from an article written from Heimlich’s perspective, I think.

Prosecutors typically don’t file felony sex charges on accusations. In Southwest Missouri, law enforcement uses Kids Harbor to eliminate false testimony pretty quickly. While not unheard of, children under the age of 10 don’t have the imagination to present a sexual accusation that is both accurate and believable. Even the most coached kids are always weeded out by (in our case) Kids Harbor. Prosecutors rely heavily on those professional resources.

A police officer, prosecuting attorney, and judge all found at some point or another that there was probable cause that Heimlich molested a child. Probable cause requires facts or evidence that would lead a reasonable person to believe that a suspect has committed a crime. An initial accusation may be grounds for reasonable suspicion, but not probable cause. And in response to that, Heimlich plead guilty.

If the Royals sign him, I’m done. The Royals have been such an important part of my life for 26 years, but that’s where I draw the line.

I'm curious how everyone would instead feel if the kid admitted doing it and seemed to showed a ton of sincere remorse?

I think I'd be a lot more sympathetic. At 13-14 your brain isn't close to formed yet. You're not the same person you're going to be as an adult by a long shot. Not that I'd ever let him near kids again. But I'd tend to want to give him a second chance at life.

After his loss last night, Jason Hammel finished the month of June tied with the most losses in MLB at 5 losses. He is tied with Jake Junis.

Yeah I figured. Just giving you shit.

Bahahaha.

Also had this turd...
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I think people deserve a 2nd chance generally, but I really hesitate to keep that feeling if they won't even recognize what they had done was wrong and have zero ambitions to right it.

That's why I didn't really like Tyreek, as his draft interview with radio didn't have really any responsibility taken. Fortunately everything looks good on that front, but what a really bad first impression.

From what I've seen with this case, it's articles trying to whitewash something that was completely reprehensible and wonderful Mecca posts trying to pin the blame on a 5 year old.

This is where I'm at. Take responsibility or have real proof you got a raw deal on something like this. I will say that I know that every day people are sent to jail for crap they didn't do, but this doesn't 100% feel like that.

Well then.

Who is projecting as the top overall prospect for pitchers and power hitters in 2019? Because it looks like one of those will be coming to KC if this trend continues.

My daughter wouldn't be able to keep a surprise gift for my wife a secret, much less keep character in a totally fabricated story.

Kids are honest, even to a fault.

Bobby Witt Jr is the consensus too guy at the moment. 5-tool SS, whose dad was a 16-year big leaguer.

Former Texas Ranger.

Is he projecting as a SS in the bigs, or will he make a move somewhere else? I can just see them ****ing with Modessi and his positions again, and he never ends up figuring it out.

Mondesi needs to worry about Nicky Lopez before anyone we haven't even drafted yet. The way Lopez is playing it won't be long before he's up here. I'm guessing one will end up at 2B and the other at SS.

Haven't some big league teams figured out that 2B doesn't require perfect defense so you'd put the second best defender at 3B or perhaps outfield?

Well he hasn't. It's true that from 12 to 23 what the mind and body go through. And basically going through at least one phase that can last a few years where the average person is actually insane. This act isn't forgivable. And he probably does it again. People who do that sort of thing don't usually stop after doing it once. It's probably who he is

It's the sickest addiction in a way. Two lives were ruined. There's no restitution in a case like this. They're both f**ked in the head now, and should both be put down. He's never gonna be right. She's never gonna be right

If there's one line that needs to be drawn in the sand as a society this has to be it. F**k him. F**k Oregon St. for letting him play. F**k his parents or family for not turning their backs on him so that he could go to prison where he belongs until someone Dahmer's him. And f**k any team that brings him in

I guess so, but valuing defense is usually the last thing you have to worry about with the Royals. I can't imagine anyone would question their commitment to putting an elite defense on the field.

Now you're getting a little ridiculous. **** his parents for not turning their back on their 15 year old son?

Maybe so. But I haven't done anything as ridiculous as what he's done. Several years ago my friend's brother got into similar trouble. He opened up a photography studio in a small town south of KC with a friend of his. They were the only one in town. And obviously technology wasn't anywhere near what it is today

So most of the people in town that wanted professional photography went there if they didn't want to drive closer to the metro. A lot of business from high school students went his way. I'm not sure exactly how many 14 to 17 year old girls he took naked pics of. He was busted by taking a disc of all of the nudes that he had done to someone who he thought could get them either work as models for the ones who would do it, or was trying to sell the pics. However it was the guy asked for a copy of if he could have the disc to show someone to get a deal done. The guy immediately took the illegal material to the police

My friend's brother was arrested. His business partner was lucky enough to prove that he had no idea of what was going on and didn't face any charges. I remember one time we were all having dinner while the trial was going on. I asked how he was doing in jail. The mood in the room shifted. There was silence for a few minutes

Then his dad told me that they didn't know as they did what any person should do in a situation such as that one, and turn their back. At the time and being a lot younger I was kinda pissed that they were so cold about it. The brother had gotten some girl that was still in high school pregnant. She was like 15, 16. They got married. Had a few more kids together

We all thought that it was a little odd. It made perfect sense once he was arrested how bad his issues were. Now that I'm older I understand where his family was coming from a lot better now. And what he did was obviously very wrong. Not to the degree as this ball player. So if a lesser crime gets a family, friends, and everyone else a guys knows to move on, then a much harsher crime deserves at least the same treatment

From WS champs to putting the Repository thread on ignore in less than 3 years.

Well, it's not like these threads have ever been great... at least when people cry now, they have something to cry about.

These threads and the Royals GDT were the best threads on this site for a few years. Pray 4 Mahomes to right the ship.

Keller with another great performance today. Looking legit.

I see our hitting frenzy continues

Keller outing > Royals loss

Also pretty sure that game was 2 hours on the dot.

Haven’t bothered to look, but is this on pace to be the worst run producing Royals team of all-time?

Yeah but I'm guessing that guy wasn't a kid himself when he opened the photography shop. Look, don't get me wrong, I'm on record here saying that I think it's very suspicious that he plead guilty to a crime he says he never committed. I tend to think he did something wrong. But I don't think a parent should ever(nor is it legal to, in most situations)turn their back on an adolescent child. You can discipline and make condemning statements about your disapproval of their actions, but you still need to shepherd them as best as possible into adulthood. Then do whatever you need to do.

Yes. The record for fewest runs during a non-strike season is 586 in 1969, their first year as a team. As of today they're on pace for 562 runs.

You want a really sad stat... that 562 would still be less than the 1994 Royals, who only played 115 games due to the strike.

That's brutal

Thanks, and double ouch!

No. We were all not too far removed from high school. And he was two or three years older than we were. He would've been in his middle to late twenties at the time. I also can't recall how long his studio was open. I also keep on forgetting that the guy in this case was still in high school

I'm not sure what the laws are. Or if they're different out there in Oregon. They can't make the parents hire an attorney. I also say that and it's just my opinion like you have your own that he became an adult regardless of age once this all came out. He was a teenager doing adult things with a child, unforgivable

If you were hoping for any chance of the Angels being in the mix for Moose, we might have done ourselves in this weekend. Mariners have now won 7 in a row, and the Angels are now 11 games behind the Mariners in the wild card.

There's suck, then there's ROYALS suck. They have it down to an art form. Nice of them to serve this up for their 50th Anniversary season. I knew when they rolled Sweeney out as their marketing spokesman this year we were doomed.

Well this is fun.

Dayton's done a bang up job

Amy chance those FL guys come up next year? We may have a young cheap rotation with Junis and Keller in the mix

Probably, there is so much speculation here.

But, like you I’d stay away.

I struggle with the word speculation.

He admitted guilt - meaning he was advised to due to a preponderance of evidence - and has actually done nothing over the last year to try to vacate that guilty plea.

Dayton loses all of my support (though I’m sure it matters oh so much to him), if he moves forward with this move.

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What's the MLB record for 162 game season?

Not 100% sure but I think it's the 1942 Phillies. They only played 151 games but they scored 394 runs. Even if they played 11 more games they wouldn't come close to 500, let alone 562.

The 1968 Dodgers played 162 games and only scored 470 runs. So there's been worse.

No

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Alcides

Cut him now !

Might see Singer or Kowar at the end of the year if they really buzz through the competition, but mid-season 2020 is more likely.