Third tier upper deck. When it's going our way it's going our way.!!


That is what "****ing A" looks like.

This guy should be batting every single day!!!!

Hahaha. That's what I was thinking. If the dude's going to give up a couple runs this year, he picked the right time to do it.

"HERRERA SUCKS. HE JUST THREW A BALL." - CP

Maybe two...

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Herrera has a 1.58 ERA

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe he's been in the lineup every day since we acquired him.

Herrera here?

Wrong. We benched him one game for Ibanez

That's a darn shame. Yeah, Willingham needs to be an every day guy until proven otherwise.

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Willingham looks like he misses the Twins. I get it, I'm just saying he doesn't look like he's immediately melded into this team quite yet. Hardly unexpected.

Was it a less-than-happy departure from the Twins?

Good game Guts, good game kiddos. :thumb:

Good game....good game

Nice win

Winner

I think Bruiser should start moar game threads. Good work sir.

Up 2 games now?

1.5 games up on August 17. This is actually happening.

I'M ACCEPTING POSITIVE REP

Good game JGuts

Oh

In his interview with the Minneapolis Times he said he was filled with mixed emotions. He said he was excited for the opportunity to potentially be a part of his first ever playoff team, but that it was difficult to say goodbye to the friends he had made over the last three years.

It sounded more than fair to be.

You disabled your rep you asshole!

Oh yea, I'm sure he's really pissed because he got traded to a 1st place team

Did you laugh at your own comment in a second comment?

LMAO

That's cool. He'll come around and make friends here, especially if he we get into, and have some success in, the playoffs..

We got a few whiteys in the dugout he will fit in

Quoted the wrong post by mistake....these things, they happen and what not

Ah, got it.

To my understanding the trade also came out of the blue for him, but hey, it's clear it hasn't impacted his performance. Willingham has been nails so far.

came out of the blue pun intended?

He doesn't show a lot of emotions.

OK, here it is 47 - 19

Gotta keep it going!

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I attempted to improve upon that picture, but it didn't turn out quite as nice as I attempted :(. Worth an effort though.

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You succeeded. That's cool, man.

That's illogical since he's #2 in innings. There's no such thing as "5 starter" or any number system outside the playoffs.

It's not positioning in rotation or innings, it's about quality. He's now the fifth best starter on the staff, thanks to the emergence of Ventura and Duffy.

Just saw the video of the Willingham homerun.

It moved.

If it wasn't for the 3rd deck, I think it just might be coming back from orbit about right now.

That sucker was a lunar shot!

You're right that he's our worst starter, but he has been all season. So he really didn't slide down any ladder on quality either.


It's a bit concerning our worst starter has eaten so many IP.

It just landed in North Dakota.

Must you always find something to bitch about?

It was first reported as an meteorite!

He started bitching the day his mother gave birth to him from her asshole.

Nice!

OK, my attempt at a KCCO image... I need a decent slogan to finish it off. "The royals are in 1st place" doesn't flow and it doesn't rhyme... so... yeah, we need a different one.

Binford promoted:

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/mlb...le1243180.html

A's swept by the Braves tonight. They've lost 5 in a row. They're now technically in 2nd place by percentage points.

The Royals are now 4.5 games behind the Angels/A's for best record in the AL.

And ......... WIN

Not necessary. That means the pen isn't taxed.

Sure, there's value in him gobbling up IP. But only if they're good IP. He's got a 4.50 ERA which is below league avg so is he creating much value doing that? Maybe, maybe not. Hard to argue either way mathematically

That's just insane.

He's No. 2 in innings because Vargas missed a month with a fluke medical DL stint. But, regardless, he's still 5th in the rotation in terms of the starts they would want to give him.

I don't know why you're hammering on the concept of 1-5 starters recently, but it is thing front offices look at as they construct a team. There are some starters you look at as back-end guys you just want to eat innings and keep you in games. You go into the season planning to limit the role of those guys in favor of your other, better starters. You shuffle the rotation when possible to get your better starters MORE starts at the expense of those 4 and 5 starters.

Personally, I tend to think of guys more as Aces (or top of rotation/true 1s), good starters (mid-rotation/2-3) and back end starters (4/5 guys that you want to eat innings and keep you in games). But the roster/team construction concept is still the same.

End of the day, Guthrie was the Royals 3rd-best/3rd most important starter last season at this time (you could argue it was Duffy, I guess, but he was just a few starts away from being shut down). This season, he is their 5th best/5th most important guy.

I think he's going to end up giving the Royals 200 basically league average innings (considering he's just a tick below that currently and traditionally struggled in July before having better August and Septembers). Which is actually pretty impressive, considering how bad his July was this year.

I'm hammering an illogical fallacy, and I know you agree that it's such. Guthrie hasn't missed a start so he should end up with ~210 IP and that'll guarantee him 2nd most On the team. "He's now a 5th" is something old school baseba fans say and I know you're new school. If people like me existed in 1993 Appier wins the CyYoung (still pissed about that robbery)

Yeah, I just want to win the division and get in... but technically speaking they're also only 2.5 behind Baltimore for the number 2 seed too.

Long way to go though. But it's cool to see they haven't just passed the Tigers, now the entire AL is looking more wide open. Didn't look that way a month or two ago when Oakland was running away with it.

And guess who won the all-star game? Yeah, that could matter to us. Drink it in.

Where would that Willingham shot have landed in (or near) the K?

Based on this, probably hits the Hall of Fame.

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OK GANG I'M HERE