Go Royals!!!!!!

There is a "Take The Crown" TV special on KCTV 5 today at 5:30 central time. Just an FYI

Here's our wild card game roster

No. Pitchers (9)

17 Wade Davis
41 Danny Duffy
27 Brandon Finnegan
54 Jason Frasor
11 Jeremy Guthrie
40 Kelvin Herrera
56 Greg Holland
33 James Shields
30 Yordano Ventura

No. Catchers (2)

19 Erik Kratz
13 Salvador Perez

No. Infielders (7)

16 Billy Butler
24 Christian Colon
2 Alcides Escobar
35 Eric Hosmer
14 Omar Infante
8 Mike Moustakas
12 Jayson Nix

No. Outfielders (7)

23 Nori Aoki
6 Lorenzo Cain
1 Jarrod Dyson
4 Alex Gordon
0 Terrance Gore
18 Raul Ibanez
7 Josh Willingham

I understand we probably wanted at least 8 pitchers, but why 9? I know we need options for if its a close game vs if we are winning a hilarious blowout, and we need arms in case its a long extra innings game, and options if Shields got hurt early, but why do we need Duffy, Ventura, and Guthrie?

I would have gone with 8 and added Giavotella.

We have to win this game to night guys this means so much to all of the fans but this game is the most important in 29 years.

We have to win this game.

Lineups are out for KC. Going with standard fare of recent games.

Escober, Aoki, Cain, Hosmer, Butler, Gordon, Salvy, Infante, Moose.

Guthrie to go long for potential extras. Duffy and Ventura in relief only.

Pretty cool road to the post season Royals piece on MLB Network just now.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>If I&#39;m the Royals, the first batter to reach first base is taking a huge lead. Jon Lester has not attempted a pickoff in 2014. Not once.</p>&mdash; Jon Roegele (@MLBPlayerAnalys) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBPlayerAnalys/status/516973643109105664">September 30, 2014</a></blockquote>
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I would switch Hos and Gordo

Not a baseball fan really but have to say Go Royals.

From Joe Posnanski's Facebook:

-- Once asked Dan Quisenberry if he missed the cheers. He said, 'Nah, I just go to the ballpark, listen to the cheers and I pretend they're for me."

-- Once heard George Brett explain that the only way to hit a home run is to try not to hit one. Royals zen!

-- Once heard John Mayberry explain his strategy for catching those tricky foul pop-ups. He would look up at the sky, gather himself, and yell at the top of his lungs, "FRANK! FRANK! FRANK!" Then Frank White would catch them.

-- Once heard Jim Sundberg say what it was like catching a young Bret Saberhagen. He said, "It was like holding up the canvas for Picasso."

-- Once heard pitcher Al Fitzmorris recount a mound conversation he had with John Mayberry on one of those impossibly hot Kansas City days, when the air was 100 degrees and the turf 120 and the players would soak their feet (spikes and all) in ice buckets between innings. Fitzmorris got in some trouble, and Mayberry wandered over from first base to settle him down. "If you don't throw strikes," Mayberry said as sweat poured off his face. "I'm going to kill you."

-- Once heard Hal McRae's response when the Yankees Cliff Johnson challenge him to a fight before a Yankees-Royals playoff game. The teams despised each other, and the series had been one collision after another, and before the game McRae and Johnson got into an argument, and finally Johnson said, "Let's settle this under the stands." McRae said: "Cliff, I don't fight extra men."

-- Once heard Brett's words to Texas' ferocious Willie Horton when, during a brawl, Brett had unwittingly torn Horton's jacket off. Horton turned to see Brett holding the tattered remains of the jacket, and Brett saw the fire in this big man's eyes, and he said, simply, "Here's your jacket Mr. Horton."

"Next thing," Brett said. "I was looking up at the sky."

-- Once heard Frank White define the best Royals teams this way: "Ninth inning, two outs, game on the line, you had eight fielders on the team and every one of them was thinking the same thing: Hit it to me."

The Kansas City Royals in the playoffs for the first time since 1985. Enjoy this moment Kansas City. And, yes, hope for more.

Holy shit. I just realized it. Today has been 16 years since the Quiz passed.

damn!

Only problem is, you have to get on base to run on his ass....