My God.... the Royals......

I've gotten tired of trying to get my point across on the Royals in 140 characters on Twitter. So I'm coming here to voice my opinion.

I love baseball. I played baseball in college, I was a coach in college (albeit for a short time period) and I was an All-American in college.  Long story short: I know baseball. But the thing the Royals are trying to do is NOT baseball. At least not Major League Baseball as it's being played in 2012.

First things first: Why the fuck is Jarrod Dyson leading off all the God damn time?? HEY YOST: DYSON HAS A CAREER OBP OF .297. THAT ISN'T GOOD. QUIT LEADING HIM OFF. In case you didn't know, you don't put a guy in the lead-off spot that is LUCKY to hit the ball in the outfield. Plus, he sucks in the outfield. Why in the world you guys sent down Bourgeois without giving him a chance is just idiotic. The guy hit .292 last year for the shitty ass Houston Astros, but you go with Jarrod Dyson? WHAT ARE YOU THINKING.


Trying to win games with a slew of long relievers, inning eaters and 4th and 5th starters as your rotation isn't going to cut it, even if you have the 1927 Yankees lineup. Don't agree? Then name one World Series champ in the past 20 years that didn't have an ace (a pitcher that dominated that season) on their pitching staff.....

I'd wait longer for you to scour baseball reference to find one, but you're not going to because one doesn't exist. This isn't the movie Major League. You can't put together a bunch of crap players and expect them to all have career years at the same time and "hope for the best" because you promised to take the clothes off the owner after each win. This is MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. Where pitching is everything. Give me a team with 5 ace pitchers and a bunch of Jarrod Dyson/Chris Getz clones as hitters and I'll win you a division. I'll scrap across 3 runs a game, maybe 4 if one of them gets lucky and hits an inside the parker, and I'll win 90+ games easy. Why? Because my pitchers will give up 3 or less 90% of the time. Not 3 one game, then 9 the next. I don't want to lose the chance at a win in the first 2 innings. Because when you keep getting down 6, 7, even 8 runs in the first 3 innings every 3-4 games your position players start to get frustrated and eventually pissed off. They were pissed off tonight. You could see it in their faces and body language. They knew the game was over in the 3rd inning. They just wanted to get it over with and get on to the next game.

More later.......