Earlier I found myself compelled to write a FanPost over at Royals Review after a conversation about Brian Cashman died off. If you feel so compelled and haven’t already read it, it is here. Seeing as though I’ve already written one 1,300+ word baseball piece today (I’ve been writing all of these on Sunday night), I don’t anticipate this entry being especially long.
On Thursday afternoon, the Royals signed Pedro Feliz …

Astros fans*.
*After trying to think of ideas for entries today, this is what I kept coming back to. Everyone is writing about the Royals Minor League system right now. Hell, it seemed like it was Kansas City Royals Week on ESPN (dot) com. I know I needed a change of pace, so I elected to look at this
For as shitty an experience as being a Royals fan has been …

Luckily I do not find myself having to write about the news coming out of FanFest this weekend regarding what most of us had assumed was going to happen anyway: Wil Myers will officially be moving from behind the dish to the outfield. Luck plays into this two ways. First, I don’t have to write about a development that already seemed inevitable. Second, the other news is much more interesting.
Saturday, …

Episode #041 – In this hastily put together podcast, I have all of the audio from the interviews I was a part of at the FanFest digital digest.  Dayton Moore, Ned Yost, Billy Butler and Jeff Francoeur all make appearances and I briefly discuss the event.
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Music used in this podcast:
Super Furry Animals – It’s Not The End Of The World?

Talking Heads – …

In this space, I have ranted at length (most specifically here) about the abuse and misuse of Gil Meche by the broken-hooked Trey Hillman. I shall refrain from doing this again today.
For roughly two-and-a-half seasons, watching Gil Meche pitch brought me joy. Over the course of his first 82 starts as a Royal, Meche managed a 3.74 ERA with 406/166 K/BB over 510.2 IP. His BABIP of .303 over this …

After giving me nothing to write about last week (which coincided with having all of my sports-energy drained by that other Kansas City team), Dayton Moore went out and addressed the most gaping hole on the roster: the starting rotation.* *Little known fact: Townes Van Zandt wrote this song because he would have been such a Jeff Francis fan. The selection of this song for this post is in no …

Episode #040 – I discuss being selected for the Royals Digital Digest and covering the FanFest next weekend.  I also discuss the age of the upcoming roster and the starting rotation.  Adam Foster of Project Prospect talks Royals prospects with me including Tim Mehlville, Wil Myers, Alcides Escobar, Lorenzo Cain, Jake Odorizzi and Johnny Giavotella.
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Follow Adam on Twitter @adamwfoster and check out …

I do not think many of us thought the Chiefs were going to win on Sunday, but that does not make the brutal loss any less soul-crushing.  After playing a solid if uninspiring first half, the Chiefs were awful in the second half.  The refs didn’t help, but the Chiefs were awful and would/should not have won anyway.
I was in the seventh grade when the Kansas City Chiefs last …

Dayton Moore signed former Detroit Tigers’ righty Zach Miner to a minor league deal last week.  He went under the knife toward the end of May of 2010 to have Tommy John surgery, which kind of makes me wonder what the point of this signing was.  After all, the Royals are reportedly looking at him as a possible starter–he has been both a starter and a middle reliever over the …

Episode #039 – In this episode, Nick and Adam re-visit their preseason predictions from Spring Training,  and discuss how to spend the off-season.  We clearly need some real baseball to begin.

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Music used in this podcast:
The Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
Phish – Slave To The Traffic Light

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As David Gobielewski pointed out earlier this week over at FanGraphs, the Royals’ rotation heading into the 2011 season is looking pretty dicey.  ZiPS is not particularly kind to any of the projected rotation with the best ERA+ projection being Luke Hochevar‘s 91*.  Luke’s 6.4 K/9 is also the best rate amongst projections for the potential 2011 rotation.
*Gil Meche is also listed at 91, but I have yet to …

Episode #038 – What else are we going to discuss?  Of course we discuss the Zack Greinke trade in detail.  I have Larry Granillo of Wezen-Ball on to discuss the Brewers perspective.  In this star-studded, two-guest podcast, I also have Craig Brown my co-writer at Royals Authority on to break down the trade in detail and how it impacts the team now and into the future.  …

My weekly post (and in all fairness, it’s been slightly more than that lately) comes a day early this week, and this is all thanks to the fact that news of Zack Greinke being traded to the Brewers leaked a day earlier than they had planned to make the official announcement.  So, despite the fact that most of the internet dies on the weekend, here we Royals fans are, searching …

Episode #037 – Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus joins me to discuss Royals prospects, Starcraft in Korea, Kane County Cougars and other baseball related issues.  I also touch on the Melky Cabrera and Jeffy Lockerroom signings.
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Pardon the excessive question marking in the title.  I rather dislike the usage of multiple question marks and exclamation points, but seriously.
It seems like many people dismissed the rumors of there being a mystery team involved in the Cliff Lee bidding war as being baseless and/or a negotiating ploy from the Cliff Lee camp.  It would appear that these skeptics (myself included) were dead wrong. Cliff Lee signed a …

The Melkman cometh, and I feel really dirty.
Having gotten that obligatory pun out of the way, last week Dayton Moore clearly decided that he was going to acquire only the shittiest outfielders on the free agent market.  First, there was Francoeur, and all twelve Royals fans were up in arms.  We knew it was coming–we’d known for years–but that didn’t make the reality of the signing any easier to deal …

Although the year has come to a close for the Kansas City Royals, our jobs as baseball bloggers and members of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance is not complete.
The BBA, comprised of nearly 250 baseball blogs, will be releasing post season awards throughout the MLB playoffs.

I guess I should have been careful what I said late last night (I ‘wrote’ that last post at 4:00 A.M.).  
Goddammit.

If ever an SI cover got it right, it’s this one…

Since Dayton Moore took the job with the Royals, it has seemed inevitable that Jeff Francoeur had a stop in Kansas City in his future.  It is finally happening, as the Frenchman and the Royals have agreed to …

So much seems to be happening all day long, yet it feels like for all the jibber-jabber and the whispering, nothing…  is…  happening…  Stasis.
Just do something.
Anything.
We all know that Frenchman is going to be a Royal.  Just give him the $18 million per contract that you’ve been wanting to, Dayton.  Get it over with.
Argh.  I give up.
It was fun, Zack.