Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 11638000)

Don't ask me, ask Harold Reynolds or the folks on ESPN.

Are you that insulated that you really didn't see the national media ripping the Royals in late April/Early May?

Yes, they embarrassed themselves with that crap. Like I said, if you want to wear the black hat, wear it and wear it proud, but you don't then get to yell at the Blue Jays and tell them they should just get over it.

The Royals and their fans never would.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 11637975)

I've said this a dozen times but the stupid ****er just keeps repeating his narrative. It's why you are better served to ignore him wherever he goes.

I liked LaRussa; always did. The guy is probably the best tactical manager in modern baseball history and despite some questionable people skills, he was an exceptional leader (just not the 'players coach' type). Shit, I liked YOST before this pack of bandwagon assclowns started professing their admiration for him. I said it when they hired him as a bench coach (I believe to Deez, no less) that the Royals had their next manager on the bench and that he's a damn good baseball guy. I thought the dude got absolutely jobbed in Milwaukee.

But because I think Mike Matheny is a shit for brains (something that Duncan has also backed on occasion), I must just hate all managers. Whatever - Hootie's a circus clown but here he has people on his side of the argument so he'll get his dander up a bit.

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins (Post 11637759)

You all have a case of envious butthurt by which all other butthurt should be measured. It’s the Muta Scale.

#1) No Cardinal fan brought up the Cardinals in this thread without some bitchmade Royal fan bringing them up. You know why? Because the Cardinals aren’t relevant to the discussion. Rather, we are dispassionate about your team. When we say that you all are acting like a bunch of ****ing punks, it’s not the word of God because we’re Cardinal fans, it’s the opinion of the rest of baseball. You all just want it to be an example of Cardinal fans acting superior because you’re so goddamned jealous of them, when the reality is that the Royals are just being assholes. You all have convinced yourselves that Cardinals fans are something they’re not because you need to invent a narrative to hate them beyond the fact that they are simply a better franchise than the Royals. Thus, you nitpick on the fans, because you can’t do it on the on-field results. And now, like Vanderbilt fans, you’re talking about the success of the AL in interleague, as if that somehow means your team wasn’t a pile of shit for three decades, and that there is no way that the Cardinals could have been successful in the AL.

#2) Don’t worry, I’m sure that you all are just being persecuted because you had one successful year in a morass of ineptitude. That must be why the Texas Rangers started getting in fights with everyone in 2011 and why the Pirates threw down five times in 2014. Oh, wait—that didn’t happen? Hmm. Wonder why? And in a feeble and stupid attempt to discredit the Cardinals, you end up dragging up examples stretching across several years (some of them completely invented, like our supposed dustups with the Pirates). Did you ever think that if you need to go back three Congresses to find enough paired examples as your team has had in four months that maybe you all are the ones with a ****ing problem?
“You know John, that woman is 65 years old, she’s slept with 20 men over the course of her life. That’s the same as the 16 year old who has slept with 20, right?”

#3) Let’s just say that the HBP numbers are meaningful (they aren’t). Why have you had more dustups than anyone else in baseball this year, including teams #1 and #2 in said standings?

#4) A few weeks ago I was standing in line in the grocery store. Behind me were two guys with less than fifteen teeth combined, talking about how stupid people with college degrees were. I thought to myself, “well, if I’m so stupid compared to you, why have I mastered oral hygiene while you’re gumming corn on the cob?” You ****s sound exactly like those two dumbasses when talking about us showing our ass in this thread. It doesn’t have to be based in truth; it’s true because you can make a baseless claim and have it bounce about the echo chamber, where you’re right because you’re right and no amount of evidence means anything. Perhaps you all should set up a Royals Holocaust museum, where your years of persecution can be compared to the greatest crimes in human history. It should fit in perfectly inside an annex in the Creationism Museum, both even have the same amount of proof.

#5) If watching the games means so much, how can so many of you be so consistently wrong about so much? Too many of you have been infected by Hootie strains of dumb****ery: invent a narrative, cherry pick stats, ignore any evidence to the contrary.

A lot of you are better than this.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 11638000)

Don't ask me, ask Harold Reynolds or the folks on ESPN.

Are you that insulated that you really didn't see the national media ripping the Royals in late April/Early May?

Yes, they embarrassed themselves with that crap. Like I said, if you want to wear the black hat, wear it and wear it proud, but you don't then get to yell at the Blue Jays and tell them they should just get over it.

The Royals and their fans never would.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 11638000)

Don't ask me, ask Harold Reynolds or the folks on ESPN.

Are you that insulated that you really didn't see the national media ripping the Royals in late April/Early May?

Yes, they embarrassed themselves with that crap. Like I said, if you want to wear the black hat, wear it and wear it proud, but you don't then get to yell at the Blue Jays and tell them they should just get over it.

The Royals and their fans never would.

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho (Post 11638008)

Matheny is one of the worst managers in the game, surpassed in dumbassery only by Robin Ventura and perhaps Brad Ausmus.

Originally Posted by Reaper16 (Post 11637999)

94

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho (Post 11638008)

Matheny is one of the worst managers in the game, surpassed in dumbassery only by Robin Ventura and perhaps Brad Ausmus.

Originally Posted by KC_Connection (Post 11638023)

http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfxVB/...=82&league=mlb

Volquez averaged 94.4 MPH on his FB Sunday and threw several in the 95-96 range (http://www.fangraphs.com/pitchfxo.as...ion=P&pitch=FA).

It's good to finally get this pointless tangent out of the way.

Originally Posted by Reaper16 (Post 11638029)

The beanball was 94.

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0 (Post 11638012)

and Mr. Cardinals fan, if you paid attention to the Ventura/White Sox crap, you'd know many of us (myself included) were appalled by his behavior.

...what that has to do with Josh Donaldson being the biggest drama queen bitch I've ever seen over the course of an entire game Sunday is simply baffling to me

...but you didn't watch the game, certainly do not understand the context, so I guess I have no idea what I should expect

anyone who watched that game and thought, "gee, Donaldson is acting very rational here!" ...is a ****ing idiot

there is a reason Wolf didn't eject Volquez after Volquez lost control of a changeup (the same change he threw effectively all day and threw to Donaldson about 9 times in a row) ... because he's not a ****ing moron, and he knew it wasn't intentional

WHEREAS dipshit (Donaldson) acted like it was the end of the ****ing world because he's a huge ****ing baby.

...and that's not even mentioning the Madson pitch later in the game where Donaldson turned the game into a three ring circus by walking back to the dugout yelling at the umpire and turning baseball into an episode of the ****ing Kardashian's ...

but thanks for your input on the matter ... Mr. Didn't Watch the Game

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 11638037)

I did, in fact, watch that game. I didn't catch all of it because I rarely catch all of a Sunday game but I watched most of it. It started before the Cardinals game so I put it on. The Cardinals game was 5 innings of pretty much unwatchable mess so I'd flip over to the Cards game for a few batters, get bored as shit and then go back over to the Royals game.

I watched almost the entire Zobrist game as well.

I'm a baseball fan, not just a Cardinals fan. As a baseball fan I've actually expressed admiration for the Royals style of play on several occasions, again, on this board no less. Great defensive teams with aggressive baserunning are fun throw back teams to watch. I'll watch great matchups and the matchup of the Royals speed/defense vs. the Jays power was easily the most fascinating matchup of the weekend.

With the DVR, I wasn't at risk of missing anything in the Cards game. When my phone chirped, I switched over to see how a run scored and then went back to watching the more entertaining game.

So try again skippy. I got plenty of context in that game and I still can't see what the hell has the Royals so spun up.