***Your Hometown Team vs. the World Champs Game 2 official gameday thread***
 

Royals took Game 1 after their 6 run comeback against Jon Garland & co.

DeJesus will not play today because he strained a hammy (i think).

Costa will start in his place, though I'm not sure who will lead off.

Pitching Matchup is Javier Vasquez v. Denny Bautista.

Bautista is exciting, but needsto develop stamina and consistency.

1:10 first pitch on RSTN.

If you want to follow along, I'll be watching the whole thing.

Together we can.

I thought the game wasn't on RSTN, yesterday they said their next game was Tuesday....

I heard WGN from TK i believe....

Yeah, you're right. Thanks, I was getting pissed flipping through my channels.

What channel is WGN?

22 in Lawrence

15 in KCK-Time Warner

22 on Comcast-Overland Park

3 on Cox-topeka

How about on DirecTV, bitch?

Your official Denny Bautista homer, checking in. Tough lineup to face today.

Is anybody else getting the blackout message on their WGN?

Hmm, that sucks. We had that discussion yesterday, I didn't know if WGN blacked out the games or not.

Damn, what am I TV guide?

307 on Direct TV KCK.

BTW , sometimes "please" works better than "bitch"

307

My god, Kauffman's grass pattern is HORRID.

Why would they black out a game that we didn't sell out?

Isn't that usually when your own town doesn't sell out a game?

Is it being blacked out in Chi-town?

Bautista is on my AAA team on my MVP baseball franchise. He's got a heater.

well, I guess its Ryan and Denny for me. :(

That was some nice pitching on Thome there.

Threw too many pitches.

Nice! Made Piersynskzkzkzi look silly. Denny was a little wild but I thought he got squeezed a bit on Iguchi. Let's get some runs.

costa leading off?

Grudz should've done it.

Grudz with the double!

Reggie-Reggie!

Sweeney still on the schnide.

Crede clobbered that and it just died in LF.

Since I can't see, are the flags blowing straight in?

Errr, pretty close I think, at least in from left. That ball Crede hit really died in LF.

That's gotta be in our favor against a team that swings for the fences like the ChiSox.

Speedster Emil Brown burns Pierzynski! :)

Bautista

Sweeney

Wheels falling off.

Hahaha did anyone just hear that guy?

GOOOOOOOOOOOO WHITE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOX!

Bautista

Yeah, it sucks. Quite distracting on TV, as well.

I heard that.

The boos were pretty loud at that dude too.

0-1 Sox :(

SF by Crede.

GOOOOOOOOOO WHITE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOX!

Bautista's had a solid four innings...impressive.

Straight dealin' by Bautista.

Nasty. That was a nice piece of hitting by Crede to get the sac fly. We need to get some offense going.

Bautista

Bako isn't framing the pitches worth a damn. Many of Bautista's pitches that have been called balls seemingly could have been framed as strikes. :shake:

Bautista

A couple of his walks have definitely had some borderline pitches. He finally got one his way there to strike out Anderson though.

seemed like Bautista thought that he should've had that 3rd strike on Thome.

Turned a DP on Podsednik, nice.

Bautista is hot shit.

Nice inning from Bautista after the leadoff walk.

Watching the Springfield Cards, Anaheim has a really good looking SS, Brandon Wood. Would love to get him in the Royals system.

No TV here, Time Warner of KC.

Not having the picture sucks but I'd rather hear Denny and Ryan anyways :thumb:

IIRC, there were some trade rumors surrounding him last year but ANA wanted too much.

Berroa is hitting well right now and not playing badly in the field either. I'd like to see the team stick by and work with him.

But can you guys score?

If you'd listened to your resident Denny Bautista homer, you'd know this already!

weak grounder to second.

I can see why Anaheim wanted so much, good glove plus he hit 43 home runs last year.

weak pop to short.

123:shake:

Wood was listed in my Sporting News preview as the BEST prospect in the minors for 2007 opening day.

The Angels probably want to hang on to him.

wow too many leadoff BB's

hey there's that "Go white Sox" guy yelling again.

That was a heck of a throw.

You guys deserve to win today!

Bako guns the runner to end the inning!

I hate the White sux. I think the Injuns are going to be the team to beat this year.

They just missed it last year, I was really impressed by the way they handled the A's down the stretch last year.

Bako throws a strike to nail Iguchi. Nice throw.

I've been pimping Bautista for awhile, too. :harumph:

Wood is a HR MACHINE. Wow, does he hit for a lot of power. He and Billy Butler have a pretty equal bat, but Wood obviously knows how to play defense.

Really brave of y'all to pimp the guy with the best stuff on the starting staff. :p

Better than a 395 pound strikeout machine... :p

Yeah he is, he hit one the other night here in Springfield that was a monster shot with the wind blowing in.

whose had control issues.
But...
he's finally learned that if he lets up a bit on the velocity, he can control the pitch better, and he's still practically unhittable because his stuff darts and dances.

The Royals are trying to sabotage the game with a juiced rubber!

Laugh all you want, Rany J. still defends the move and he's smarter than you ... because he's a doctor and stuff.

I'm putting in the call right here.

C'mon, Sweeney. Earn your pay...

Well I guess Sweeney will be out for the next 4 weeks now.

He just took one on the elbow.

OK, well he got any base anyway. Way to take one for the team.

Heh, I will bet that Sweeney is going to leave the game with this injury.

Edit: Guess not, much to my surprise.

I can't hear or see the game; I'm working off of the ESPN Gamecast, which is like 3 pitches behind real time. :)

C'mon Sanders. Earn your pay...

HARDWOOD FLOORING FOR LESS!

Sanders doubles!

Royals take the lead, 2-1!