They were involved in every brawl that went down all season.
I will wager any amount of money you want that this statement is not true. No ceiling. I'll bet my house on it.
Ventura/Trout incident is all on KC,
Yep. When Perez stepped in, it was to back Ventura away, telling him he was out of line. Ventura still has a lot of growing up to do as a pitcher, and even more as a person. The team even tried to send him down to AAA midseason over his maturity issues, but had the plane turn around when Vargas got hurt and another spot opened up in the rotation.
Ventura/Lawrie is all on KC,
Lawrie had a questionable slide out of the basepaths that took out Escobar pretty bad. I won't say Herrera's response was appropriate or proportional; slides like Lawrie's happen regularly in MLB. But had Lawrie slid directly into the base nothing else would have happened. A more mature pitcher doesn't escalate the situation, but it was an escalation.
brawl vs. Toronto is all on KC.
Disagree, but there are no words or video that would change your mind. So I'll just agree to disagree and move on.
Now you're just trolling us. You can't possibly. No. Trolling. Gotta be trolling. I suggest watching the video of the rally in its full context before commenting further about what happened there. Just like I would recommend that a person read the book, listen to the song, or see the movie before making up their mind about it.
They are a good team, but the advance scouting myth making is kind of hilarious (did anyone not know Lucas Duda and Jose Bautista don't field their positions well?)
I suggest reading the Verducci article about the ALCS. The Bautista report was much more specific than "he's bad". It was a specific reaction to specific situation that created the opportunity to score a runner from first without hitting a ball to the fence or starting the runner on the pitch. I think even you would agree scoring from first on a single is an unusual event.
That Verducci article also contains content explaining how the Royals decoded Price and made that big rally in Game 2.
I agree with you that reaction to Hosmer's run in the 9th was overblown. Because of what we had seen earlier, the assumption was the Royals had found an advantage to exploit. In the moment I know I had that thought "they must have scouted that!" and probably posted that here. But it turned out Hosmer was running on his own; Jirschele, normally a madman when it comes to sending runners to third or home, disagreed with Hosmer's read and wanted him to stay at third.
and the act like this roster was built around some great design... like Eric Hosmer was an uber prospect and now he's become Sean Casey but somehow that's all part of the plan and Hochevar was 1.01 and now he's a setup man and that was part of the whole design.
Cite this. Find anyone in the press or blogosphere claiming this with a straight face. This smells like straw. It will be very difficult to find someone who tracks the Royals closely and believes Dayton Moore knew what he was doing all along, much less had a master plan for the organization from top to bottom. They fell back-asswards into a lineup with a low K-rate. They weren't scouring the USA and Caribbean looking for guys who loved to swing at the first pitch.
They even fell backwards into their plus-plus defense. Gordon was a failed 3B who had to move to a corner outfield spot to save his career. There wasn't a whole lot of evidence to suggest he would be awesome at running down fly balls to left.
Plus, I think bandwagon BD is an ####### and they eliminated Toronto.
Most people on this board who think I'm an ####### exhibit a pattern of behavior centered around feeling entitled to their own set of facts or their own set of rules. I wouldn't expect you to be an exception.
Totally get not liking the team that eliminated your favorite team. No shortage of examples of that in any sport at any level.