Tommy Pham… ya done good.

That fly out from Isbel is gonna bake into my brain overnight

Certainly thinking whoever plays NY has a great shot to take them out. That’s not an exceptionally better team than anybody left. Biggest wallet, sure.

And then my favorite part - not sending guys on the team who can steal bases.

He's just like Vladimir Guerrero, Sr., that's his approach and it's never going to change. It works for him.

But I don't see how Perez's lack of plate discipline has any impact on the other players. Good baseball players come in all shapes and sizes. It's the front office's job to surround Perez with more OBP guys.

Yep, it's hard to get a walk when they swing at everything in and out of the strike zone. (That is, everybody but Garcia who chooses not to swing at all.)

Agreed on both counts. Isbel’s fly ball will be a haunting aspect. The Yankees pitched exceptionally well. No taking that away. But, until Stanton righted himself, it was anybody’s series to take.

People started heading to their cars in the 9th before the game was over. We're better than that. Great year, but you can't leave because you want to beat traffic in that situation.

:(

The first half of the season Salvy looked more disciplined at the plate than ever. Second half he seemed to fall apart. The radio talking heads said his bat speed isn’t there which forced him to start his swing early which sounds very possible.

Will be interesting to see what the Royals do with Salvy. Might be time to give him the Lebron game management treatment. Split his time equally between C, 1B, DH with more full off days sprinkled in.

I'm lazy and haven't looked it up so I'm hoping someone can explain the playoff seeding.

1, 2 get byes
3 plays 6 and 4 plays 5 - makes sense

1 plays 5 and 2 plays 6 - why not 1 plays 6 and 2 plays 5?

Shouldn't the top seed play the bottom? Was there something about the way the teams finished that caused this?

Just curious as to the seeding of the teams.

They set brackets at the beginning and don’t re-seed

They don't reseed after the Wild Card round.

No. 1 plays the winner of 4 and 5 no matter what.

No. 2 plays the winner of 3 and 6 no matter what.

Tiufvtwaf

Yeah, that sucks. They deserved to have a full stadium for the entire game. That said, the crowd knew what was going to happen. We were just too predictable at the plate. We chased everything out of the zone in the last two games. It was just crazy how bad and undisciplined we were at the plate. And look, the Yankees pitching at the K was outstanding, but we helped them out in both games. It’s why we lost the series…and amazingly, the 27 walks we surrendered somehow weren’t really the story.

I think an important thing to remember is that we made it further than the cards this post season cause **** St. Louis!

Thanks... I suppose the expected outcome is 1v4 and 2v3.

Haha that would be amazing though

That kind of sucks, one of the underrated things about the WS game 7 loss to the Giants was the ovation at the end of the game. Of course, nobody was leaving that one, but the stadium didn't fall into dead silence and some tried to start a 'thank you, Royals' chant'.

Not the biggest reason to stay until the end, but still.

Tonight was different than last night. I think most of us were still hungover.

And that whole series would have ended way differently with robo umps calling balls and strikes too. Not bumgardner getting a strike zone 6” outside the box and our strike zone being 6” inside it. And then having Joe Buck spend the whole series talking about how great of a pitcher he is.

I agree, but a little perspective - the Royals proved last night there is NO plan for parking for a crowd this big. It took me an hour to even get a few feet from the spot I parked in. Complete pandemonium. Now myself, there's no way I'm leaving before the last out in a 2-run playoff game. But I know a lot of people have a much lower threshold. Maybe would've been nice for the Royals to hire some of the Chiefs people to handle parking.

Hey, it was a "Good Year" , we shocked everybody's expectations. NOBODY had us pegged to win the games we did plus make the playoffs!

I was close when I said we could go 81-81 & miss the playoffs. ALMOST everybody would have taken that record after our 23' season.

Our bats just let us down many times this year for long stretches.

Well, on to 25! We made great strides in 1 year.

Bob Costas needs some Jeff porcaro bug spray

I've been sitting in my car and haven't moved since I typed that. Flaky just put it in park.

I was at the game and in no position to see the strike zone, but the biggest annoyance was playing small ball in Bum's first inning... hated wasting an out in that inning and putting it all on one guy to knock home a run.

What a season. Looking forward to next year. LMFG!!!

Salvy has had a great career, which I would assume is probably over, but he chased stuff out of the zone in both series. Batting clean up that sure did hurt.

Not sending BWJ late yesterday was huge.

Was the wind really blowing in that hard? I have been out a lot today and didn't really notice the wind being too strong. Do I trust Costas and if so we missed two homers tonight?

They ran on Salvy he must have been worn down. I think I'd played Freddy at the plate and DH'ed Sal or put him at 1st. Vinny I believe was rushed back.

Really need a little more pop in the lineup. MJ needs to be replaced in LF and Isbel is good glove but just not much offense. Old man Pham was pretty good but really not a guy you bring back.

Q as a manager I appreciate the job he did but damn pull these guys that cant find the plate. To keep pitching to Stanton lost this series for you. There were plenty of opportunities to pitch around him. Hope he learns from this.

TSC has always been about making your own road going cross country and making the other guy believe you're willing to take out a fender.

Get aggressive its only going to get worse when they move to downtown.

No it won't. Leaving will get better downtown because a 1/3 of the crowd won't be leaving right after the game.

Agree to disagree. Royals are a completely different animal than Chiefs fans. Royals are more family oriented and head home after the game instead of partying downtown.

Looking forward to next season.

Thank you Royals for an exciting and somewhat unexpected season. Dang if they didn't get cold at the wrong time.

I know they won't read this, it just helps me put it in perspective.

Now, if they can just get the tee vee contract resolved...

Oh yeah, I still dislike the Yankees and their entitled fans.

My helpful answers looks like I was doing lines with Costas last night.



https://i.imgur.com/p8IY7L0.jpeg

enough wind to keep two in.

the SBs werent on Salvy - was on pitchers not holding runners and slow delivery.

And yeah, we MIGHT have been better with freddy in the DH, but who knows.

We lost 3 games by a total of 4 runs to a team with 3x the payroll as us (after losing 106 last year).

No shame at all.

And yeah, the city of Boston gets one thing right: Their hatred for the yankees and their fans.

Their a different type of reeruns than dodger fans, but reeruns nonetheless.

There wasn't a WHOLE bunch of people leaving in the 9th... but some in the lower sections, which probably made it look like it was more people.

We had ONE thing to really cheer about... Pasquatch sighting after he drove in the one run. The stadium was electric and just ready to blow up.

Fun time at the park. Shit outcome to see the Yanks celebrating on our field.

Since the New York Yankees' last World Series win in 2009, their collective payrolls and accumulated totals have been as follows:

Yearly Payrolls
2010: $215.1 million
2011: $196.9 million
2012: $229.7 million
2013: $228.0 million
2014: $203.1 million
2015: $199.9 million
2016: $200.0 million
2017: $198.7 million
2018: $164.4 million
2019: $203.9 million
2020: $243.8 million
2021: $211.5 million
2022: $259.5 million
2023: $292.0 million
2024: $325.0 million

The accumulated payroll for the New York Yankees since their last World Series win in 2009 is $3,371.5 billion.

Since the Kansas City Royals' last World Series win in 2015, their payroll salaries have been as follows:

Yearly Payrolls
2016: $128,892,314
2017: $152,148,299
2018: $114,779,170
2019: $105,816,031
2020: $105,316,895
2021: $157,407,477
2022: $97,303,989
2023: $119,930,000
2024: $120,351,954

The accumulated payroll for the Kansas City Royals since their last World Series win in 2015 is approximately $1,101,945,129.

Nearly precisely 3x the Yankees. Nice DJJasonp

No, the wind was very light.

Now compile revenue and compare payroll as a percentage.

This is an interesting infographic.

https://x.com/brooks_gate/status/181...O2tUt4SmxPFYbg

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">how much money each MLB team made last year, and how much of that is going towards their payroll this year <a href="https://t.co/yCeoc2fGP5">pic.twitter.com/yCeoc2fGP5</a></p>&mdash; BrooksGate (@Brooks_Gate) <a href="https://twitter.com/Brooks_Gate/status/1813226032066884039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This one is interesting too.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-theme="dark" data-cards="hidden"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Postseason?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Postseason</a><br>Umpire: Mark Carlson<br>Final: Yankees 3, Royals 1<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RepBX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RepBX</a> // <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WelcomeToTheCity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WelcomeToTheCity</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYYvsKC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NYYvsKC</a> // <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KCvsNYY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KCvsNYY</a><br><br>More stats for this game 👇<a href="https://t.co/4MwyYMObyx">https://t.co/4MwyYMObyx</a> <a href="https://t.co/KEW3yX08zE">pic.twitter.com/KEW3yX08zE</a></p>&mdash; Umpire Scorecards (@UmpScorecards) <a href="https://twitter.com/UmpScorecards/status/1844747653189447766?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Probably is that it uses luxury tax payrolls.

Which is akin to using a team's Salary Cap figure as a proxy for Cash Spending.

And for many (if not most) ballclubs, those aren't even reasonable proxies because a luxury tax payroll uses AAV whereas the actual payroll spent is cash spending.

Look at the Cardinals, for example. That infographic says they had a $212 million payroll. They weren't even CLOSE.

They were, on the high side of the range, around $180 million in payroll spending this year. On the lower side, you'll see figures at around $150 million when accounting for things like retained payments from other clubs.

I suspect the $180 million is the more accurate figure, but even using that figure, the figure they use is inflated by almost 20%.

The difference comes from backloaded deals and deferrals. A team like the Dodgers has a staggering $46 million 'tax payroll' for Ohtani but only paid him $2 million this year.

The Royals have an ever bigger gap because they get drilled for Witt's full AAV on their tax bill but only paid him $2.7 million this year. His luxury tax percentage, OTOH, was $26.2 million. So they get 'credit' for $24 million in spending they didn't actually do. So their 'luxury tax total' was a little over $160 million. Their adjusted payroll total was about $122 million. Then their cash total (because of signing bonuses) was about in the middle of that.

I'd probably say your best bet is to try to find your cash spending totals for most of these teams. That's gonna give you the best guess about the 'commitment level' each team has.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bobby Witt Jr. was alone watching the Yankees celebrate so Giancarlo Stanton went over to show him respect<br><br>(via <a href="https://twitter.com/SamMcDowell11?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SamMcDowell11</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/marioagomez_1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@marioagomez_1</a>) <a href="https://t.co/2xLwct1mP3">pic.twitter.com/2xLwct1mP3</a></p>&mdash; Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) <a href="https://twitter.com/JomboyMedia/status/1844773983620608420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Sort of like Brady going to the locker room to talk to Mahomes. Hopefully this has a similar outcome next year!

They said on the broadcast last night what a good guy he is, this exemplifies that.

Except Mahomes actually played like a star in the AFCCG game and fell just short, whereas Witt had an awful ALDS and didn't fall just short.

So a third of the money the Yanks spent in that time period and 3x the success (2 pennants and a trophy). 3 things the Yankers haven't seen since 2009.

Do you guys know how awkward it is to spit your drink out laughing at something on your phone in front of your wife and then have to explain what is so funny?

Happened with this post. Really hard to explain without seeming like I belong in an institution.

At this point when that happens my wife just looks at me and says “Let me guess, Chiefsplanet?”

*me watching midget porn*

“Yup, sure is!”

Yep she's desensitized to it at this point.

bill brought the heat with that one. He works in mysterious ways

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="art" dir="ltr">🤡🤡 <a href="https://t.co/3ZubrCv8z2">https://t.co/3ZubrCv8z2</a></p>&mdash; Maikel Garcia (@maikeljose06) <a href="https://twitter.com/maikeljose06/status/1844880562122809818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Great run for the royals. Hate NY.

Wonder if baseball is salivating at a Big Apple series?

I haven’t seen someone so obsessed with my penis since your wife the last time I was in town.