****OFFICIAL Royals at Blue Jays GDT 08/02****

[RealSNR]

Time to take a catheter and shove it up their Dickey!

Game start: 12:07 central

KC: Volquez (10-5, 3.21)
TOR: Dickey (5-10, 4.27)

Go Royals!


Royals
Escobar
Zobrist
Cain
Hosmer
Morales
Perez
Rios
Cuthbert
Infante

Blue Jays
Tulowitzki
Donaldson
Bautista
Encarnacion
Colabello
Martin
Pillar
Goins
Revere

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by lewdog

Moose being out isn't a conflict? Tell that to the royals players dumbass.

Moustakas being out is an injury, not a conflict.

[tk13]

Originally Posted by tk13

That was for Moose, I'd imagine.

Just quoting myself to show that I'm not full of crap. I said that right after it happened.

[RollChiefsRoll]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Moustakas being out is an injury, not a conflict.

Brilliant semantics-parsing there. You should go into politics.

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Moustakas being out is an injury, not a conflict.

You don't think some of the players think your 3b should wear one when our 3b is out because of one? Jesus, do you watch this sport?

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by RollChiefsRoll

You should watch more baseball.

Huh? Players get hit all the time unintentionally without teams throwing beanballs in some kind of hilarious attempt at retribution. If it was actually the way you're talking about, why are beanballs like this a rarity and not a regularity?

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by lewdog

You don't think some of the players think your 3b should wear one when our 3b is out because of one? Jesus, do you watch this sport?

I think that's a pretty hilarious rationalization for an intentional beanball, yes. Explains quite a bit why the Royals find themselves in these scenarios.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by RollChiefsRoll

Brilliant semantics-parsing there. You should go into politics.

So you're saying an unintentional HBP the day before is a good reason to hit somebody intentionally and start a conflict like this? Seriously?

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

I think that's a pretty hilarious rationalization for an intentional beanball, yes. Explains quite a bit why the Royals find themselves in these scenarios.

This happens all the time. I'm not sure how you don't get that. Many not as obvious beanballs as today but HBP nonetheless.

[RollChiefsRoll]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

I think that's a pretty hilarious rationalization for an intentional beanball, yes. Explains quite a bit why the Royals find themselves in these scenarios.

I think the more likely explanation is that Samardzija, Lawrie, and Donaldson still need therapy for their PTSD from last year.

[tk13]

Originally Posted by Rams Fan

Aside from the Diamondbacks, please name one team that retaliates consistently after someone gets hit. Maybe the Pirates after McCutchen gets beaned?

They all do. You are surely not that naive. They may not do it right away, but it happens. Someone made a reference to Curt Schilling, who said most all of his HBP were on purpose for one reason or another.

There was a story about Ed Farmer after that dust up a few weeks ago, and granted Ed Farmer is nuts... but there was a story about how once he waited two years to nail a guy for something he did wrong.

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

I know that these threads had ten percent the posts in them last year. Hell, you're one of the five people in the KC metro who knew what baseball was in August, so you should be able to see how a pattern of asshattery keeps following the Royals, but I guess you can't pick all the low hanging fruit.

Orchard jobs a'plenty, I see.

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

So you're saying an unintentional HBP the day before is a good reason to hit somebody intentionally and start a conflict like this? Seriously?

Had moose not been hurt than maybe nothing. Missing a game then yes, the chances of an opponent wearing one increase based on game circumstances.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by RollChiefsRoll

Well as long as you'll admit that Donaldson's tantrum and walk outside the batter's box after Madson buzzed him was just a mixture of roid rage and I-can't-believe-I-let-that-ball-go-by-in-the-2014-wild-card-game butthurtedness, then I'd say we've reached a détente.

Donaldson got emotional today (understandable considering he was thrown at and hit for no good reason and wanted his own retribution), but I do love how much he's gotten under the skin of you guys.

[Rudy tossed tigger's salad]

Originally Posted by lewdog

You don't think some of the players think your 3b should wear one when our 3b is out because of one? Jesus, do you watch this sport?

I guess the Astros owe the Royals an injured OF for 6-8 weeks

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by lewdog

Had moose not been hurt than maybe nothing. Missing a game then yes, the chances of an opponent wearing one increase based on game circumstances.

So you only hit guys intentionally unprovoked when your player has to sit out a game because of the previous unintentional HBP? Is that the rule we're making up to explain this away now?