/Michael Cole

BILLLAAAHHHAYYY

Billy let the ball hit your gut so we can get baserunners. Just stop sucking in.

Petite is ****ing 47 and we're making him look like a Cy Young candidate.

You popped it up, Billlllaay.

this offense is truly pathetic.

Jacobs, our greatest hope!!!

If I could I would and this game is ova!

Jacobs patiently awaits his opportunity to strike out.

When I see Jacobs, I think a young, stronger Eddie Murray.

That swing took some airplanes down.

FYP.

Sometimes you just have to be bold.

Jacobs is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

I'm reasonably sure that I would be able to lay off that pitch.

They probably make some device you could purchase to make it happen.

Jacobs with the rare strikeout. Can't hit a homer everytime I guess.

Our Cialis offense continues to impress.

No no that's for the other team when they hit the ball at him.

leo nunez is much better than mike jacobs.

he can probably hit better too.

What do you mean?

I'm prepared to pinch hit Greinke.

Our only run came on a fluke play lol

We got Olivio and Callapso up next inning so we're sitting pretty good still.

Let's go Farnsworth. Keep redeeming!!

No more Farnsworth? :( Alright, Wright's excellent as well.

Sounds expensive.

Our pitching is pretty straight. We need George Brett to come back. Or Ken Harvey.

We look like total ass-stink at the plate.

he's a nick-namer.... straight up george bush style

Quote of the thread.

If we had an offense, we'd be a 120 win team.

You could go old fashioned and just use a funnel.

I told you Wright was excellent! We'll help him out!

Impressive.

But, unfortunately, this means we have to bat.

I've never noticed.

I predict a 3 up and 3 down for the royals

Ok. Let's get the lead-off man on.

Must get base runners.

Olivo not the best approach.

base hit or ball 4, right here.

Edit: same shit.

Oh God it's John Cena's theme...

aw **** this shit

The Royals are awesomely bad. Yay.

ROFL

Now Playing: Amorphis -- "The Night is Over"

Our offense is pitiful.

and KC's luck they'll get to see the real Sabathia tomorrow

This is like the Tyler Thigpen of baseball offense.

Nah. The Tyler Thigpen of baseball offense would score like 4 to five runs in the first 4 innings by way of slap singles and fly balls to no-man's land that OF can't get to. But then it would do nothing but strike out in innings 5-9.

no worse, its more like Brodie Croyle

Greinke would have thrown a perfect game today with this strike zone.

man this umpire sucks.

Inspired offensive effort.

These guys have played Sabathia pretty good in recent history. Hopefully the bats will awaken tomorrow. Lord knows they'll need them with HoRam on the mound.

So what is that 7 runs in 4 games?

Yeah, that'll be a loss.

correct.

ROFL johnny damon just called this game a pitcher's duel.

The good news is that tomorrow we have Horatio pitching against Sabathia.

ROFL

Well that was a suckfest. Way to erase any good feelings this city had about the team Dayton Moore.

So who wants to take bets on how long HoRam lasts? Who wants the over on 2innings? Because I got the under.

We're gonna have a top-notch pitching staff and this organization is gonna spoil it with this pony-league line-up...

No.

You thought that was a good game? While Dayton Moore is busy running out 7 has beens/never will be's is a good thing? I hope he can get out from under Alex Gordon/Billy Butler ASAP.

1 down 2 to go. If the Royals make Andy P look that good, then I can't even imagine how they will make CC look tomorrow. Looking forward to it. And that ump was TERRIBLE.

Well, no it wasn't a good game. It wasn't an atrocious game, either. Its not the kind of game to make me lose all confidence in Dayton Moore. I'm also not about to say that Gordon and Butler can't progress this season based on the 1st four games of the season in chilly weather.

As the great oft defender of all things Royals I have to ask....... how can everyone on this planet and a few others know exactly what is going to happen when you parade Sidney Ponson/Kyle Farnsworth to the mound, except team management? No really, how? I'd like to know.

Yes they pitched "well enough" to technically keep us in the game... but did anyone really believe we were going to get to Petitte/Rivera once it was 4-1... or even 2-0? As cold as the bats have started after a very hot hitting spring training... did ANYONE really think a comeback was happening? Did anyone really think the Yankee scoring might be over at 4 with our chosen pitchers?

At least we (you) didn't dedicate millions of dollars of your own hard earned money to renovations that have made the K absolutley incredible, just to have team management almost seem to go out of their way to trot a couple of the leagues worst pitchers out against the powerful Yankees to re-open it. No, that would have been a shame.

Well, Farnsworth was excellent today pitching in the role he's best suited for.

Good. It was meant as more of a blanket statement about him in general but I am glad he pitched well today. I would love for him to shut us all up. No one wants the Royals to win more than I do.

I'll gladly take the over on that..

I hope we can score more than 2 runs in a game this year. That would be AWESOME!

Be my luck he goes three innings.

Im starting to think this franchise will never develop a BIG BAT guy ever again.....

and thats the only way this franchise will ever be able to compete for anything.

Moustakas and Hosmer have the most power of any Royals prospect in a loooooong time.

They're busy trying to develop Mark Teahen man.

I unfortunately have plunked down the dollars. Ohh well another season another losing record.

Honestly its too early to worry about it, and say the seasons over. Tomorrow or next week we could start putting up 12 runs a game. I do know that the pitching seems to be solid enough to stave it off for a little while (exceptions being Farnsworth on Opening Day, and HoRam in the Rotation). Spring Training showed a lot of positives offensively. Jacobs showed some power, and several people (Teahan) had high averages.

They have big bat potential in Gordon and Butler... Jacobs did hit 32 homers last year, he'll get it going. The players who have the ability just have to get it done. I'm more concerned about rounding out the starting rotation with a couple good pitchers than I am about the offense. A lot of teams have started weakly in the cold so far. I think the bats will be ok, hopefully sooner rather than later.

Four games in and we're 2-2 without bats... patience.

i mentioned earlier than there are not many teams in the league with superior 4 and 5 starters anymore. The game is just not played that way anymore.

All in all, Ponson gave the Royals about all they could ask for today.

The BATS are whats wrong with this team.

Thats why I'm worried... I don't know if the bats will ever show up for this team.

So far... but in the long run I'm going with the end of the rotation.