Bruce Dickinson
Footballguy
Let's have some fun out there.Good luck Royals fans.
Here's to a good series.
Let's have some fun out there.Good luck Royals fans.
Here's to a good series.
Did not see that one coming.They weren't using Gore much, so dropping him wasn't a loss. But damn. AA to the Series. I got a little nervous typing that.Raul Mondesi Jr., no pressure kid
A second backup IF gives the Royals a little more positional flexibility in case of an injury or marathon game but having a player like Zobrist on the roster makes the 25th man less likely to factor. A pinch runner like Gore would normally be the shark move but Dyson makes him a bit redundant.Did not see that one coming.They weren't using Gore much, so dropping him wasn't a loss. But damn. AA to the Series. I got a little nervous typing that.Raul Mondesi Jr., no pressure kid
Last year they used both with Dyson running for Aoki and then taking over in CF (Cain moving to RF), leaving Gore available to run for Butler.This season, Paulo Orlando took over Dyson's role as late-inning PR/defense sub for the right fielder. Orlando doesn't have 80 speed like Dyson and Gore, but he's plenty speedy. He also can hit a pitched ball, a skill neither Dyson nor Gore have mastered at the major league level. So Dyson got demoted to Gore's role of designated runner for the designated hitter. (I also suspect Yost wanted to keep Cain in CF for more innings to get him a Gold Glove.). So as fun as as to have T-Baby on the postseason roster, he was mostly decorative at this point.A second backup IF gives the Royals a little more positional flexibility in case of an injury or marathon game but having a player like Zobrist on the roster makes the 25th man less likely to factor. A pinch runner like Gore would normally be the shark move but Dyson makes him a bit redundant.Did not see that one coming.They weren't using Gore much, so dropping him wasn't a loss. But damn. AA to the Series. I got a little nervous typing that.Raul Mondesi Jr., no pressure kid
This is ####### unbelievable... There were Standing Room Only tickets in the $5's earlier, all gone, now SRO are in the $6's. Over 1500 tickets sold today, I don't think there will be any lower prices had for this one unless the Mets lose games 1 & 2.If prices come down a little, I might go Friday. $1k-$1200 is really my ceiling per ticket and I'm not paying that to sit in the upper deck in right field.If you want to sit behind the dugout, it's cheaper to fly to KC for the game than watching it here.Anyone gonna try to get a ticket to a game?
My wife's birthday is Friday....trying to come up with a way to get her and I tickets and somehow make it seem like it's something she would want.
Whoa whoa whoa stop the clock.He helped them avoid the Wild Card round
Absolutely. No matter what happens in the next week, you have to make the trade. The window for a small market team like KC is short and pennants fly forever. The Royals started Jeremy Guthrie in a game 7 last year and couldn't repeat that. The Royals' rotation needed help in late July and Cueto was the best pitching rental available. Vargas had just gotten hurt and Ventura was an injury away a trip to Omaha.Knowing what they did at the time, did the Royals do the right thing making that trade for Cueto?
ETA: point taken about the Royals division lead. I should have checked the standings on trade day before making that statement. I disagree with you about HFA, though: the home field was a huge advantage in Games 1 and 2. Changed the texture of the series.
I'd rather do SRO over more expensive nose bleeds.This is ####### unbelievable... There were Standing Room Only tickets in the $5's earlier, all gone, now SRO are in the $6's. Over 1500 tickets sold today, I don't think there will be any lower prices had for this one unless the Mets lose games 1 & 2.If prices come down a little, I might go Friday. $1k-$1200 is really my ceiling per ticket and I'm not paying that to sit in the upper deck in right field.If you want to sit behind the dugout, it's cheaper to fly to KC for the game than watching it here.Anyone gonna try to get a ticket to a game?
My wife's birthday is Friday....trying to come up with a way to get her and I tickets and somehow make it seem like it's something she would want.
I'm looking at left field - field level and they're prob about $2500 for two meh seats, hoping for a little cheaper. If it comes back to NY tied 1-1 or 2-0 Mets it might be even more.
Kind of a bummer.
Their WS probability pre- and post- trade were near-identical. If getting HFA was important for the Toronto series, Cueto doing an impression of a batting-practice machine in G4 certainly overshadowed it. Maybe his jovial nature and neat hair helped encourage the team to victory in games 5 and 6, or maybe he gave a cool speech or something. But his results to-date with KC have been pretty lousy. Which is one of the inherent risks of trading for any star player, I suppose.IMO the outcome of the ALDS is different without Cueto, but there's probably a lot of pitchers who could set down 19 straight in the deciding game of a playoff series.
The Royals have one of the worst local TV deals in MLB. Their recent success at the box office helps but there isn't a lot of growth opportunity in local media revenues. They can certainly increase their payroll beyond the $100M-ish they were at this year but I don't see them getting much above the average team payroll until their TV contract comes up for renewal.Their WS probability pre- and post- trade were near-identical. If getting HFA was important for the Toronto series, Cueto doing an impression of a batting-practice machine in G4 certainly overshadowed it. Maybe his jovial nature and neat hair helped encourage the team to victory in games 5 and 6, or maybe he gave a cool speech or something. But his results to-date with KC have been pretty lousy. Which is one of the inherent risks of trading for any star player, I suppose.IMO the outcome of the ALDS is different without Cueto, but there's probably a lot of pitchers who could set down 19 straight in the deciding game of a playoff series.
If KC is not going to spend money to stay competitive for the next few years and either re-sign Cueto, Zobrist, and Gordon (or similar players), then I guess it makes sense.#YOLO. But KC had the 16th highest opening-day payroll, and Eephus citing them as a "small market" team is, in 2015, almost completely irrelevant. Teams in the cities of New York, Houston, and Atlanta had lower opening day payrolls. It'd be more useful to think of teams as having "good cable deals" or "bad cable deals."
So, "no", then. Thanks.Their WS probability pre- and post- trade were near-identical. If getting HFA was important for the Toronto series, Cueto doing an impression of a batting-practice machine in G4 certainly overshadowed it. Maybe his jovial nature and neat hair helped encourage the team to victory in games 5 and 6, or maybe he gave a cool speech or something. But his results to-date with KC have been pretty lousy. Which is one of the inherent risks of trading for any star player, I suppose.IMO the outcome of the ALDS is different without Cueto, but there's probably a lot of pitchers who could set down 19 straight in the deciding game of a playoff series.
If KC is not going to spend money to stay competitive for the next few years and either re-sign Cueto, Zobrist, and Gordon (or similar players), then I guess it makes sense.#YOLO. But KC had the 16th highest opening-day payroll, and Eephus citing them as a "small market" team is, in 2015, almost completely irrelevant. Teams in the cities of New York, Houston, and Atlanta had lower opening day payrolls. It'd be more useful to think of teams as having "good cable deals" or "bad cable deals."
They were running the ball down and neither player got in position to make a catch?Can someone explain how that "HR" wasn't counted as an error?
And MLB is almost as bad as Fox.Fox is almost as bad as ESPN
Joe Buck=Wally Pipp?????So, no Joe Buck? I hope the ratings triple, then nosedive when he comes back on
Boo. We want Smoltz! We want Smoltz!
This will be the best 1-2 innings of World Series announcing I've seen in a long long time