Kansas City Royals at Oakland A's-April 11
 

Guess that alnorth not starting a thread today. If you have one al, I'll gladly cancel this one out

Is it an afternoon game, or is it another 9 pm start?

Starts in 20 minutes

2:35 Central

Let's go Roy-als! clap clap clap-clap-clap

"Everybody crap your pants!"

Indeed, need to finish up the road trip strong and come back to KC for the home opener with a winning record.

:hmmm: Just curious, but why root for the Royals if your a Twins fan?

How's the weather look as far as getting the game in? I know they were expecting more rain.

Blue Skies smiling at me
Nothing but Blue Skies do I see

Hudler is so annoying

Fantastic Crowd!! look at those filled seats

Lets score early and often again

That was a quick half inning.

At least we got 9 pitches in the top of the first.

Rex is getting quite tongue tied today

Long winded answer, but here goes. As a kid going up in Springfield, I was, like most of the population down there, a Cardinals fan (still am in the sense I cheer for them to win almost all the time). When we moved to KC, our family got season tickets for the Royals, we split them with a couple of other families, so I got to see the Royals a lot during the high water mark of their success (83-87), and become a fan of them as well.

The strike in 1994 made me forgo baseball altogether for a number of years. I was so pissed off that the Royals dismantled that team after the strike (dumping David Cone less the two seasons after making one of the biggest free agent signings in team history). Many folks seem to forget that when the 94 strike hit, the Royals had won like 18 of 20 games, and were either tied with the White Sox or just a game or so back of them in the standings. The Royals, as a team have never been the same since the 94 strike.

Fast forward to 2000. My wife is from MN and when I had the opportunity to take a good job up there, I did and we moved up there to be closer to her family. My wifes family are big into MN sports, and naturally, summertime focused on baseball, so I found myself down at the Metrodome on a number of occasions watching baseball...something I had not seen live since 94 in KC. The Twins were beginning to make their run of small market greatness, and I found myself caught up in the tide of fan resurgence up there, and found myself enjoying baseball again. So I have followed the Twins most closely in the last ten years or so, save for when the Cardinals have made their deep runs in the post season.

My loyalties to baseball teams are not nearly as set in stone as my devotion to the Chiefs or to Mizzou. When I asked BoneKrusher to make my sig bar, I debated between the Royals and the Twins, and went with the Twins, as much as they brought me back to baseball, but also as a reminder of my time in the Great North.

For what is it worth, I kind of feel like the Royals of this year are kind of like the Twins of 2000...a doormat team that has been down for a long, long, time, that is finally starting to awaken from its slumber. It took the Twins a couple of seasons after 2000 to make the playoffs, but they got it done. I think the Royals can do the same, and I hope that they do. My daughter wants to see the Royals live this year, and I have not been to Royals Stadium since 94 for a game, so I am thinking I will end my drought there this year and take her out to the park for a few games.

I am sure my explanation has now reached the tl;dr status, but there it is. :D

As they said on the broadcast the other night, "come on down to the ballpark fans, plenty of sections available!"

Is there a bigger crybaby then Mauer?

Jesus Butler

Shit

What the hell was that?

is rex jacked on cocaine today?

What a shitty throw from Pena

:doh!: :facepalm:

Gamecast shows Chen getting abused on balls and strikes calls. 5 strikes called balls, and no balls called strikes.

Jesus Pena that wasn't even close. Should have held onto it.

I have to admit that I was high on Pena a couple years ago but as of late not so much

Pena is just a bad catcher.

BP did make some big plays last season. But he owes us a a home run for today's shit

He half-listened to you

Does a double count?

Well if we score here I will pretend I didn't see that throw

A double is a nice start to making up for it.

i dont hate him as much now

Eff you Getz. You have no business being on this team.

Was the throw that bad? Lol

Chris Getz outs.

Jesus Alex, that's not a pitch to take

YES

Alex finally gets one.

Gordon is back!

ABOUT TIME!!

OK Gordon, get it crankin now

Gordon!

God Pena is so fa-

Wait, did Rex just say "Rib-eye?"

Way to go Gordon

Pena is a gutsy runner...in a couple of ways

Rex just broke down the "steak attached" meaning

Well the outside is not there at all

U guys are lucky to have wonderdog doing your games

Wonder why they aren't keeping the FoxTraxx up for all the pitches. I think they did last year

Isn't that guy a little old be to bringing a glove to a baseball game?

Nice rib at A's fans by Ryan

Hell I thought i was seeing something lol

never too old to dream

I still take a glove to the game and I'm in my 50's

Frenchy giving his crew some pizza

Frenchy is a cult hero

Keep makin bacon

The hell? why can't Frenchy send me some pizza.

I was Channeling my inner Jim Rome.

he's probably down by your rectum somewhere

Alex Gordon is trending on USA's twitter. NICE.

I swear rex will always have something to talk about he talks about nothing

Rex enlightens us with a definition of a sacrifice bunt.

Phew...

Rex throws out the Thesaurus... not that he knows what that is.

I think rex just came out of the closet

Nevermind, I'm backing to not liking Rex. He sucks.

Now Sexy Rexy is extolling the benefits of sunglasses.

Squinting wastes valuable resources

How old does one have to be to strike a match?

Rex trying to defy works for Chen it was all good till he reach "Foxy" even Ryan was confused

That was a swing

And the 10's of A's fans yell balk

Nice come back Chen

Chen works out of the mess. Nice job

Also, I for one am happy that Rex told me that there are different kinds of eye black.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-21_jyYvyZx...oreyouknow.jpg

Glad Chen got out of that