*** Kansas City Royals @ Cleveland Indians Game Thread (4/21) ***

[Mama Hip Rockets]

Originally Posted by SPchief

Salvy desperately needs a day off

Yeah. He is useless right now.

[C3HIEF3S]

Get em tomorrow.

[blake1771]

Royals play out of this world defense. Indians make 3 errors and, yet, we lose, because the majority of our team is just hopelessly lost at the plate.

[petegz28]

Originally Posted by blake1771

Royals play out of this world defense. Indians make 3 errors and we lose, because the majority of our team is just hopelessly lost at the plate.

No power....none

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by petegz28

No power....none

yeah.

We're an American League team. Hits are fine, but if we can't hit home runs, we're toast.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by blake1771

Royals play out of this world defense. Indians make 3 errors and, yet, we lose, because the majority of our team is just hopelessly lost at the plate.

We have a lineup full of Punch and Judy hitters - Including our muscular dystrophy laden DH.

[BWillie]

Everyone's boy Salvador Perez now batting .227, no homers. 1 for his last 21. But ZOMG ZOMG when Billy went 1-19. Planet explodes.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Everyone's boy Salvador Perez now batting .227, no homers. 1 for his last 21. But ZOMG ZOMG when Billy went 1-19. Planet explodes.

I don't know, maybe because he's also a ****ing AWESOME catcher, while Billy is a worthless slug?

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Everyone's boy Salvador Perez now batting .227, no homers. 1 for his last 21. But ZOMG ZOMG when Billy went 1-19. Planet explodes.

You're kidding, right? Billy has one job on this team. ONE (!!!) and he can't do it very well. He's a DH that no opposing team fears - and that's a problem. He'll find his grove just about the time we're talking about "next year" and other teams are putting their scrubs in to face us (to save their aces) - so he gets junk-time production.

So yeah, let SP start dropping more balls than not per game, allowing 10-15 passed-balls per game, and then you might have a decent Salvy-Fatty comparison going on.

To many people mistake Billy's all-too-familiar grimace of anguish as passion for the game instead of an act. He fat, dumpy, lumpy, bull-headed, and no longer very good at the ONE THING he's paid to do. He should be sent down.

[C3HIEF3S]

Yeah, the lack of power on this team is beyond bad.
If we were an exceptional doubles hitting team with great speed then I can see a bit of an exception, but we're not.
We aren't even a team that threatens to run into a homer every once in a while.

The Angels have 29 ****ing home runs already, we probably won't reach that until the middle of July at this rate.

[KCBOSS1]

Bring George back in... we need another boost

[alnorth]

Detroit tried to rally, but lost

[alnorth]

KC played crazy defense and created a run with a bunt and Dyson's speed. CLE hit two balls over the fence with a man on. I wonder who won.

— Rany Jazayerli (@jazayerli) April 22, 2014

[C3HIEF3S]

Originally Posted by alnorth

KC played crazy defense and created a run with a bunt and Dyson's speed. CLE hit two balls over the fence with a man on. I wonder who won.

— Rany Jazayerli (@jazayerli) April 22, 2014

Spot on.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by alnorth

KC played crazy defense and created a run with a bunt and Dyson's speed. CLE hit two balls over the fence with a man on. I wonder who won.

— Rany Jazayerli (@jazayerli) April 22, 2014

Yeah, the all-elusive long ball... That's where the fatty is supposed to step up, but it's not a buffet, so he's clueless! But he'll give you that disingenuous pained look with each at-the-plate **** up, so Ned's sure he has passion.