****Official Royals vs. Oakland Ass 7/5 Game Thread****
 

First game of the toughest series we've had so far

Davis (4-6 5.55 ERA) vs. Milone (7-7 4.17 ERA) on the mound

It's salute the A's night. Everybody raise your right hand and SALUTE!

I having my pals Gary and Brad come over for BBQ and to watch the game. Today I've been slow smoking ribs, chicken and turkey, beans with little bits of brisket in them, and all the other goodies that go along. We will drink many beers and curse the evil, worthless Oakland Asses.

C'mon Wade.

You piece of shit.

I can't wait until the Browns have their "salute the Ravens night."

It'll be a fun time.

A's suck ass. Pitch well, Wade. Please.

Bob Dutton ‏@Royals_Report 4m
Another positive sign: Alex Gordon is taking batting practice.

Yes. He passed concussion tests and is cleared to play.

http://fox4kc.com/2013/07/05/alex-go...ed-concussion/

I guess that means as soon as his hip is ready, he'll be back in the line-up. Perhaps he can even pinch hit?

That's fantastic news. That means he'd avoid the 15 day DL, even the 7 day DL for the concussion.

We can get by without Gordon for a game or two, but it CANNOT be prolonged. I know he got a lot of shit from us in the past, especially with the "Alice" stuff, but he sure as hell came a long way.

Get well soon Alex, we need you back healthy.

Here for the ass raping we are going to lay on the A's.

Well maybe not tonight with Davis pitching....but at least tomorrow and Sunday!

And something about the A's just makes me cringe.

Oh yea, they're from shitbag Oakland.

Gordon's available for this game.

And before that, they were from .....here.

I still have a soft spot in my heart for the A's. I shouldn't. But I do. If Charlie O. hadn't moved them after the 67 season imagine the teams/players/history we would be discussing. Three consecutive WS champions and some of the greatest players of that generation. And those ****ers had flair. The unis, the mustaches...they were awesome.

Strikes, dammit!

K.

Sit your ass down.

Great first inning for Davis!

Wow. Looks like we got the Dr. Jekyll version of Davis tonight.

That was a really fun inning to watch.

Great start for Wade. Hope he can keep it up.

Campy Campaneris was my first favorite baseball player. Davis looked good in the first

Escobar.... :facepalm:

Why is Esky still in the two hole? Goddammit ned yost you are a ****ing joke.

I wonder why they can't get Escobar to turn his wrists over when he swings. He's wide open every swing

Weeks on end getting more at bats than everyone but Gordon but just failing away. Just stupid!

Davis's velo is way up tonight. Hmm.

Nasty.

3 strikeouts so far.

DYSON!!!

Davis thought that was gone off the bat

Nice catch Dyson!!!

Hell, so did I.

Dyson with the great catch.

Wow great Defense Dyson.

Dyson when running into a wall, the preferred technique does not include stopping yourself with your head.

Alex Gordon/Bryce Harper does not approve of this message.

Nice. Last 10 games as a team.

.282 Batting Average.
16 Homeruns
5.6 Runs per Game.
.474 Slugging %
.344 OBP %

Detroit up 3-0 on the Indians in the 4th. What's the best scenario for that series? Split 2-2?

I would like the Indians to take the series 3 games to 1 assuming we can win two of the next three games. I personally fear the Tigers long term viability much more than I fear Clevelands.

Shitty inning there guys.

4 extra innings games

I'm sure the Royals would prefer that the Tigers keep the division lead, simply because they play them a few times more than the Indians.

Man, Sogard just looks like your typical coffeeshop hipster (from his gameday photo, anyways).

GD it.

Lough that was a pretty terrible throw.

Blah!

Didn't charge quite hard enough either. As an OF that shallow, if you see a guy just rounding the bag as you get to the ball....you pray he goes so you can gun him down.

Jeffy Frenchy snickers

Lough's D seems wildly inconsistent

Two outs, Johnny.

Francoeur's absence already killing this team.

GET ME SOME GRIT, STAT!

His lack of leadership is pretty evident on the present team.

He was off the charts on Dayton's "team chemistry" and "grit" metrics.

Davis's pace has slowed to a crawl. Pick it up.

GET SOME ****ING RUNS!

Lefty starters aren't exactly our offenses' specialty.

Game.

Okay, that American Taliban wanna-be is starting to piss me off....

Laugh all you want, but the stats back it up. Eat your heart out saberelectricians.

Grit+WAR - 2013
Chris Davis - 2.0
Miguel Cabrera - 3.2
Jeff Francoeur - 12.1

That's a pretty shitty effort there, Gia.

Wow, this was a slightly down year for Jeff. Getz was in the 15's before he was sent down.

WTF blue?

I wasn't expecting much out of our offense with hall of famer Milone on the mound.

ROFL

Is that fGWAR or bGWAR?

Slick play there Escobar.

Now about your batting......

Reddick, please take your Jihad somewhere else, thanks.

Base hit....one time?

I don't know what you guys really expect going against Milone. He has been owning all year.

Talk about slumping... I didn't realize Reddick was having such a down year. He had 32 HR last year. So far he's on pace for 6.

Billy needs a slump buster or something.

They should hire George Brett as hitting coach.

Hey bitch. I called it!

Since when is a plus four E.R.A sorted in the "owning" category?

We just can not hit lefty starters, especially when Billy is going through an off year.

That curveball is sick tonight.

GTFO hobo.

Call me, maybe?

I see you aren't in game threads much.

It is called sarcasm relating to multiple pitchers looking like HOF pitchers against us.

wow, the leadoff walk scores...go figure

wtf was that, just leisurely run after that ball.

Sigh. Nice meatball.

I eat my words with dignity.

well, Davis needs to go....dare I say bring Hoch back in? Or Will Smith even