{facepalm}

Do you not realize how hypocritical this is? Mike Moustakas got hit by a strike earlier this year and the dugout started barking.

The Royals take HBPs (and takeout slides) more personally than any team in baseball and any team I've seen since Dusty Baker allowed Kenny Lofton's bullshit to infect his clubhouse in Chicago. Every bit of contact with a Royal, be it in the batters box or on the bases, was clearly with a malevolent motive and has to be met with mean mugs, shouting and emptying onto the field.

Sometimes when you're positive that everyone in the world is an asshole, it's probably worth considering the possibility that they aren't the asshole.

You're right - sometimes guys get hit and often times the hitter contributes to his own HBP. That's something that you would be well served to remember the next time one of your guys leans into one and Eric Hosmer starts flailing about in the dugout.

Yeah we took it soooo personal that we have retaliated all of 2 times...

Once for taking out Esky
Once with Donaldson

But we are near the top of the league in HBP....

nice try

That's right - you're all just choir boys. I mean Cain barking at the mound after getting hit by a slider, Herrera getting suspended for whatever the hell bit of idiocy he had was, Ventura's constant staring, you guys have emptied the dugout what, 5 or 6 times already this season? On and on and on it goes - the Royals are constantly yapping about how they've been slighted.

The Royals take this shit personally. You're welcome to argue that it's with just cause, but you can't honestly sit there and say that these guys don't constantly have a chip on their shoulder about this crap. They do.

A Royals fan telling anybody to just brush it off is the height of hypocricy. Royals fans have been convinced that MLB is out to get them all friggen year (and you're pretty much the worst of them).

OMG!!! Not STARING!!!! That's it....Pitchers have to wear blinders from now on!

Yes, focus on the degree of indignation instead of the pattern of shit stirring that's come from your team this year, a pattern noted by every national media type that's taken time to speak to it.

This is the shit the Royals have been involved in ALL SEASON but I'm sure you're right Pete - the rest of MLB is just out to get you. It's Royal red ass that's causing this nonsense to occur at all.

How many times have we emptied the dugouts again?

Royals are thugs derp

How many times have royals been hit?
How many times have they hit someone?

Why did Donaldson throw a fit yesterday?

Royals success, upping Royals thread participation from new fans and Cards fans alike.

Donaldson was as pissed at the umpire as he was anyone else - he got hit (clearly intentionally) and then after warnings were issued a teammate got hit again and he got buzzed twice with no response from the ump. That's going to frustrate the guy.

Royals fans at the beginning of the year (and you just now) use cumulative HBP figures as justification for your ire and yet you ignore the fact that in game Donaldson had been beaned and then buzzed twice. That's going to piss you off - period. You can't very well say "well Gordo got hit 3 times last month so he's right to be angry" and then ignore Donaldson's frustration.

I understand why Donaldson would be pissed just as I understand why the Royals would be nonplussed. It's just friggen absurd that Royals fans that have been crying all season about being targeted are now going to tell anybody to brush it off.

The Royals and their fans damn sure haven't shown a willingness to do so.

:LOL:

Lots of bitching from non-Royals fans.

I guess success really does breed contempt . . .

The blue Jays and royals didn't play each other yesterday...

Mostly some of the board Cardinals fans. They seem to pop up out of nowhere and start shit on their high horse. Their baseball team means a lot to them and we're all dumb asses.