A couple of thoughts from the last few days… 1) Ahhh, it feels good to win. We have spent SO much time this season feeling let down and in despair. Neither game on Saturday was a squeaker, and Sunday was a blowout, and I had sort of forgotten how those games feel. Like…the Royals can …
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Sep 10
Dear Trey Hillman: the Shealy edition
I wrote this a few days ago, when a lineup published prior to a game didn’t include Shealy. That reported lineup turned out to be wrong – Shealy was in that game – so I figured I didn’t need to use this. Lo and behold, I was wrong. I’m starting to think Trey Hillman is …
Sep 01
Ka’aihue up, apparently
SOURCE So much for all my speculating and caution earlier today. First base is gonna be crowded. Hat tip to Royals Retro: Devon Lowery up. Not a huge surprise, and he definitely deserves it. Labels: news, Omaha Royals, roster moves, Royals, rumor mill
Sep 01
Roster expansion musings
It is now September, the time of year when the Royals call up players from the Minors and then have them sit on the bench for a month! (OK, hopefully that practice is no longer in place, and was just a Buddy Bell thing. As much as I love to see guys rot in the …
Aug 31
Silver linings galore…?
Brett Bigler’s Mustache* just his first-ever professional home run to give Omaha a lead, right after I thought, “He has no power, hopefully he can just get on base here.” *the team is still using his old Wilmington picture on the website, but he is currently sporting a ratty ‘stache that looks like two caterpillars …
Aug 28
The coolest thing happened to me tonight
Boy it’s been a long time since I’ve posted, hasn’t it? Long story short, I did not have Internet in my dorm room (horror of horrors!), and then both of my computers conspired against me and gave me hard drive failure scares. Tonight was the last Omaha Royals home game until April 17, 2009. I’m …
Aug 23
A new low, in NSFW-rant form.
From Sam Mellinger’s blog today: Maybe my memory’s just short, and the 12-game losing streak is fading, but to me, because of the way they’ve lost these games, the stranglehold they now have on last place (again), the injury to Hochevar, the anemia of the offense, the struggles of Banny, this is about as bad …
Aug 18
Kip Wells….yep. Back to baseball!
I do love the Kansas City Star, and I am eternally grateful that it is available online for free. But two things bother me about it: 1) The comment section There’s not much the Star can do about the comment sections, but they are often filled with unrivaled idiocy and misguided vitrol by people who …
Aug 16
The most non-baseball post I can muster
Yep, another one of those “Other Things.” I’ll come back with some baseball stuff later. This weekend at my neighborhood theatre is one of my favorite events to experience, and something I think everyone should do at some point or another: the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I went last night amidst a huge crowd, and …