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Last night's game...
Published on 2011-10-28 11:46:00
Reactions from Viva El Birdos and Lone Star Ball:9th inning:...10th inning:...11th inning:...So, Rangers fans ... feeling good about today?Dallas Morning News
A simple thought that has been running through my mind again and again
Published on 2010-03-24 03:43:00
You know, even at a far remove -- geographically at least -- from my hometown baseball team, it's not very hard to feel the positive vibes coming out of camp. I feel very, very good things about this season, and if I'm proven wrong, well, that doesn't change the reality of these feelings at this present moment, when all teams are 0-0 and anything seems possible.
Fake Dayton Moore
Published on 2010-01-26 10:30:00
http://twitter.com/fakedaytonmoore makes me want to come back. Ah, Twitter. Alas, I think this blog has hit its logical end point. I just g-chatted to a friend these series of messages:you konwi'm kind of thinking to myself this lineup isn't baddejesus, pod, butler, jacobs, gordon ankielguillen, buck, shortstopthrow callaspo in there!not guillen, sorryjacobs would be dh obviouslythat's NOT a bad lineupI know, I know...I'm living in the past, and not even some distant past where the Royals were g
Viva El Birdos, indeed
Published on 2009-10-09 02:31:00
If you're in need of a chuckle today, go check out SB Nation's Cardinals blog, like these comments. But don't linger too long, you might start feeling an odd combination of sadness, bemusement and sympathy.
An amazing statistic via Joe Posnanski
Published on 2009-09-10 01:01:00
In the book Jitterbug Perfume, which is the sort of book that so poignantly asks all the universe's most important questions (e.g., life, death) that even if you hate Tom Robbins, you'll appreciate and respect this work, the caprine god Pan slowly dematerializes as fewer and fewer people believe in him. It's how gods "die," as he puts it.Our coverage of these Royals is kind of like that: slowly disappearing, soon incomplete sentences and broken links.But this is too good to not share: Joe Poz, n
Catching up, kind of
Published on 2009-07-16 21:14:00
In the context of recent Royals events, my last two posts could not have been more off the mark. I understand this, trust me. They were deliberately -- and I'm just throwing out a few words here -- mild-tempered, light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek, non-Royals-related. On the other hand, as far as I can tell, the prevailing attitude among bloggers and commentators falls somewhere between exasperation and resignation, or, on a slightly different axis, rage and despair. The fallout to the Yuniesky Beta
Zack Greinke wins the All-Star game
Published on 2009-07-15 09:08:00
Roy Halladay really sucked, huh? Compared to Greinke at least.Z Greinke1.000002010-80.00And look: wit!JAYSON STARK: Yeah, not to suggest it's been a while since the American League lost an All-Star Game or anything, but after the AL had ripped yet another All-Star triumph off its relentless July assembly line Tuesday night, we couldn't find a single member of this year's AL All-Stars who could correctly answer the following straightforward trivia question:Do you even remember the last time the N
"If I had a good curveball I wouldn't be president"
Published on 2009-07-15 07:48:00
From Jeff Caple, ESPN -- Ichiro's come a long way since "two rats screwing in a wool sock," hasn't he?"My idea, when I saw him, was to say, 'What's up?' to him,'' Ichiro said through the Mariners team interpreter. "But I got nervous. You know, he has that kind of aura about him. So I got nervous and I didn't say that to him. I was a little disappointed about that. But I realized after seeing him today that presidents wear jeans, too. So my hope is that our skipper, Don Wakamatsu, was watching th
The reason Twitter was invented
Published on 2009-05-11 10:13:00
Matt Wieters Doesn't Take Pitches...He Shows Them Mercy.Albert Pujols’ Mother Drafted Matt Wieters First Overall In Her Fantasy League.Matt Wieters Can Switch-hit From All Five Sides Of The Plate.In the First Jurassic Park Movie, The Tyrannosaurus Wasn't Chasing The Jeep. Matt Wieters was Chasing The Tyrannosaurus.Matt Wieters Facts.We checked www.ZackGreinkeFacts.com. URL not taken, surprisingly.Zack Greinke Is The Reason The Suicide Rate Is 95 Percent Among Americans Named Zach.POSTSCRIPT: R
Poor A-Rod
Published on 2009-05-08 21:29:00
Watching Gilgameche against the Angels, and in the bottom of the 1st we got this classic exchange about Alex Rodriguez:Angels announcer 1 (paraphrasing): That says a lot, with all the distractions and the pressure, to step up and hit a home run in your first time up.Angels announcer 2, without missing a beat: Somebody probably tipped him to what was coming.And that's only one of the reasons I'm enjoying this telecast. Another: Meche is much better than Matt Palmer.UPDATE, minutes later: I hate M