This one isn’t baseball, but it’s silly – A literal video of Total Eclipse of the Heart. Awesome. Rob White continues his streak of really, really excellent player profiles as he answers the question, “What is Brian Buchanan still doing in Omaha?” I had heard before that the team offered him a coaching job. Buch …

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Here’s an interesting profile of Omaha starter Lenny DiNardo from yesterday’s Omaha World Herald. The story talks about how the callouses DiNardo developed from playing guitar solved a problem he used to have with finger blisters. I was already a Lenny DiNardo fan, but his experiences with the Dropkick Murphys (one of my all-time favorite …

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Not much to add here – Lee attended tonight’s ORoyals game, and focused on the always-patient Kila Ka’aihue. The post also includes a video of Kila’s homer tonight.

The Omaha Royals are struggling. Possibly even drowning. There really is no nice way to put it, no sugary coating that would make the last few weeks sting less. Today’s loss was the team’s 6th straight, and they’ve won just three of their last 15 games. As much as I enjoyed having Sacramento come and …

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Given that I am a somewhat normal* college girl, I send and receive many, many text messages every day. Many of them, as you could probably guess, are about the Royals or baseball in general. And sometimes, my phone’s auto-complete feature comes up with some pretty hysterical stuff instead of the things I actually want …

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Today, as you may have read, is George Brett’s birthday. It is also Greinkeday, and hopefully the beginning of some winning for our suddenly-struggling Royals. Twitter-er jgsteeler asked earlier today, “Is it even possible for the Royals to lose on Mr. Brett’s Birthday!?” Naturally, because the seconds are dragging by until Grienke’s first pitch tonight, …

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