Kansas City Royals @ Detroit Tigers Game Thread (4/23)
 

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<tr> <td>Postponed</td> <td> 1 </td> <td> 2 </td><td> 3 </td><td> 4 </td><td> 5 </td><td> 6 </td><td> 7 </td><td> 8 </td><td> 9 </td><td> R </td><td> H </td><td> E </td></tr>
<tr> <td> KC (10-7) </td> <td> </td> <td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td></tr>
<tr> <td> DET (9-9) </td> <td> </td> <td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td></tr>
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AL Central

Final, game 1: MIA 3, MIN 4
Final, game 2: MIA 8, MIN 5
postponed: CLE @ CWS

Go get 'em Royals!

Tonight's Forecast:
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, then occasional showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 7pm. Low around 38. South southeast wind 7 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Think it'll be postponed?

We may get lucky, and the bulk of the rain will remain west of Detroit leading up to and during the game. Fingers crossed

Hopefully.

our time to come to play!!!

go blue!!!

Hopefully we can keep their offense silent.

Royals are +154 with a +1.5 run line. It opened at +163.

Im not sure why but im nervous about this one! Lets do this!

Please, God. Let us DESTROY these ****s.

In. Hoping we don't get rained out.

Peter Gammons ‏@pgammo 4h
Red Sox players' description of Salvador Perez:"The Beast." Majority opinion:no AL catcher with better hands or arm. Star.

Gotta love Salvador Perez. I don't recall watching a better catching prospect ever.

Hey just play another double header. You guys swept the last one ROFL

Being rained out in Detroit would Suuuuuuuck.
Nothing to do there. Culture void.

I think your use of the laughing emoticon is ridiculous.

Exactly what I was thinking. Glad I'm not the only one.

Maybe it's cause Max Schwerzer is really good.

Getting swept in a double header is funny.

6 pm. Let the battle for first place rage. A sweep would help us out a lot.

IN! Hope it doesn't get PPD

It's 59 and sunny in Detroit right now. Supposed to rain later tonight, then get colder tomorrow. They're going to get our KC weather late tonight and tomorrow.

What is it with this metric shit? This is 'Murica, dammit!

Whoops forgot to mention that LMAO

They're right. Best catcher I've ever seen behind the plate.

If they get rained out, they could skip Mendoza in the rotation right?

Could be that i had a bad feeling about boston and we pulled it together so **** my gut feeling!

He got skipped once already so I am not sure they would want to do that. But yes they could.

Assuming rain doesn't develop ahead of that batch around Chicago, it's be 6-7 hrs before the heavy stuff makes it to Motown.

Shit, man. Storms form out of nowhere over the great lakes. I would hate to be a weather man in that region.

I think this smilie should appear :bang:when Perez's name is typed in because he does have a hollister (sp?) for an arm.

Hes ok, doesnt provide the leadership like Jason Kendall though.....

lots better than the American Eagle that we used to have behind there.

At least Frenchy has an Aeropostale out there in right. Saves a ton of runs.

Looks like the rain won't start until 8:30. Under might be a good bet here.

Our best chance to win was likely going to be scoring runs off their porous pen.

Moose has nice little umbro shirt over at 3rd as well.

I prefer Hos's hyper color

Cain is certainly an upgrade over Harold Pener.

Lineups are out. Same old lineup for us today.

Funny thing about Salvy is that he wasn't even a highly ranked prospect. Just came out of the blue.

I can't say that...I saw Johnny Bench.

I like Hosmer at fourth for now. Though I would switch Salvy and Moose.

I didn't.

Definitely the best I've seen in nowadays baseball.

Rain looks to be ~ 90 min. away. Once is starts it looks like it will go on for a whiile.

http://images.intellicast.com/WxImag..._None_anim.gif

Mother of ****.

Glad I'm back in South Carolina and not in Toledo, OH. I used to be 45 minutes from Detroit. Weather sucks there.

Yeah I don't think this game is happening. That's a really wide band of rain and it's almost there already.

Man this is bullshit. Get a dome you ****ing douche bags. Just more reason for me to hate the Tigers. If you play in the North, get a God damned cover for your stadium so that your'e not 8 games behind by May. ****ing pillowbiters.

Weather.com's hour by hour still showing hope, radar from weather.com is showing no hope.

weird

This shows rain as well

http://www.findlocalweather.com/hour...rica+park.html

Oh well, looks like the team will have to hop over the bridge and go chase some Canadian Tail. Canadian women are hot and beautiful.

Plus they have OTC pain-killers.

How long before they call it? Maybe they can just delay it by 2 or 3 hours? Would they do that or just cancel it? This sucks.......for the first time in years, im actually looking forward to Royals games.

If it looks like the rain will subside within a reasonable amount of time, they'll start the game at 8 or 9 if they have to.

No. It's ****ing baseball. Play outdoors. You got weather issues in a lot of cities.

Not that I am keeping score mind you but if you are correct that would make the scoreboard...

Royals - 10
Opponents - 7
Bad guys - 1
Mommy Nature - 1

How dare you.

As opposed to Phoenix...where it never rains. YET THEY HAVE A ****ING ROOF BECAUSE IT'S HOT ENOUGH TO CAUSE POSTPONED GAMES. If you live in a rainforest during the month of April...build your stadium accordingly.

I am off tomorrow. Let's play two tomorrow.

After all they're undefeated in doubleheaders. :)

True but the city of Detroit's a mess man. Constant construction. They'd be ****ed if they tried to add a roof to that stadium.

Bro. I'm talking about tarps. Tarps.

Salvy reminds me a lot of Sandy Alomar, Jr. I think the best catchers defensively were Bench, Pudge Rodriguez and Tony Pena. Best with the bat were Bench, Munson, Freehan, Tenace, and Fisk.

Kevin Costner was pretty good in Bull Durham.

**** Munson. That is all

Tim Robbins pitched like Rick Ankiel :)

No love for John Wathan?

Wathan was the fastest catcher, best at stealing bases. But he didn't have the arm or bat of these guys mentioned.

Darrell Porter was probably the best catcher prior to Salvy, although Sundberg was very good too.

Hourly forecast from weather.com indicates 0%, 15%, and 20% chance of rain for 7,8 and 9 o'clock respectively.

Wathan was really fast, for a catcher. /Fever

Detroit weather in motion seems to indicate a band of precipitation will hit after 9.

http://wxug.us/13gof

can't believe its about 70 in Detroit. We're barely above 40 in north Texas. I *****ing HATE rain delays and postponements.

Good. Let's have these shit bags beaten by then.

I'm heading home from the office. I'll be back on when the beatdown commences.

What about Sweeney? Although, I don't remember seeing him catch much?

based on what I'm seeing, it will be raining by first pitch.

Rainout?

They are scared!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Tarp going on the field here in Detroit. Not a great sign.</p>&mdash; Bob Dutton (@Royals_Report) <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals_Report/status/326828224581599233">April 23, 2013</a></blockquote>
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