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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/john_donovan/04/11/powerranks.one/index.html Wow.  That one seems a little different from most power rankings though; I don't look at SI that much, but it seems like he didn't do his first rankings until after the season started, based on what happened ...

Sounds like the football coach who didn't like the forward pass since it could be intercepted or incomplete. Poor analogy.  While the forward pass is one of only two means available to advance the ball on offense, the stolen base is but one of many ways to advance on the basepaths.  It would be imp...

Royals are getting some love on Baseball Tonight.  They did a segment on base stealing and talked about how the teams that have jumped out to fast starts are doing it with the stolen base, and they talked a lot about Joey Gathright in particular.  I'll respectfully disagree about the wisdom of steal...

6-2 and the second shutout of the season already, including eight shutout innings out of Greinke.  Hard to find much fault with him tonight, though I'd like to see a few more strikeouts (particularly since he's on my fantasy team).  Frankly I'm pretty surprised they completed the game, but good to s...

So Gathright is caught stealing and it costs the Royals a run when Jose Guillen finally manages a base hit.  They did say that he's got a green light and probably made that decision himself, so I wouldn't necessarily blame Hillman for it, but it's a perfect example of why steals just aren't really w...

I've come to the conclusion that Billy Butler is a monster.  Its been awhile since I've been this excited about a royals hitter. Butler's great, but I haven't gotten as excited about him yet as I was about Mark Teahen back in 2006.  I think part of it's just that I expect Butler to hit, but I had b...

There has been some discussion on some blogs about moving Teahen to first so that Gathright can play center and DeJesus can play left, so there's a compromise that'll keep them both in the game.  It's not without its own problems, of course.  Gload, while he lacks the power you'd like to see out of ...

Let's not go crazy here with Gathright.  He's batting .231/.276/.269/.545 so far.  His speed is nice, but it doesn't do any good unless he gets on base -- which he managed to do twice today, but it was the first time since Friday.  Last season was by far his best, and his OPS was still only .713, fo...

So the $36 million man is the only Royal who didn't make it on base today.  Buck and Pena also hitless, but drew walks; everyone else had two hits each.  Five stolen bases on the day, three by Gathright.  Hindsight being what it is, you can point at those as good decisions after all, but I'm a littl...

Yeah, Bannister is looking pretty awful so far, but he did finally manage a strikeout to end the inning with the bases loaded.  Damage could have been much worse, I suppose.  Still, he was up 0-2 on Posada with no one on and two outs and gave up a single, walk, single, walk, walk, scoring two runs i...

Is that all it takes, the people in the state agreeing to it?  I do not know.  Other states would not be so happy about it because of the gains in the senate the former single state would experience as two states.  If it was so easy, all the states in a particular region could just basically agree ...

And on the topic of Soria again, he was the subject of Buster Olney's blog today .  I believe it's only available on ESPN Insider, but he quotes John Buck a few times and both of them (that is, both Buck and Olney) compare Soria to Mariano Rivera.  Olney compares their athleticism, with Rivera shagg...

My biggest concern is a lack of patience at the plate and on the bases.  8 walks, 32 SO in six games is by far the worst in the majors.  I have also been pretty disappointed in our baserunning.  This has to be driving Trey absolutely crazy.  I like the aggressiveness of trying to turn a single into...

The offense is definitely troubling, but Jose Guillen and Alex Gordon are both off to slow starts (.167/.231/.208/.439 and .280/.280/.560/.840, respectively -- but Alex came into today batting .227/.227/.500/.727, so clearly it's a little ridiculous to be referring to these statlines right now, but ...

mean wrote: I was in the P&L to see the game on Friday, and was told they wouldn't put the sound on because the GM is a Yankees fan. WTF? 

So basically what you're saying is that a child is in charge?

Meche today, 5.2 IP and 6 ER.  Not great.  Mahay and Yabuta finally got onto the field though and combined for 2.1 IP 1 H 0 BB 1 K.  There were some questions about this bullpen coming into the season, given all the turnover that took place in the offseason, but so far the only run allowed is the ho...

As has been noted before, KC has about 300K in 65 sq. mi., and probably 350K in 80 sq mi. KC's core IS comparable in terms of population density to most other midwestern mid-sized cities, i.e., STL, Minny, Cincy, Pittsburgh, etc. No doubt, KC has some density in its core, but so much of the city fe...

I would love to see KC's density go up significantly. Kansas City is currently both too big and too small, in my opinion. Definitely.  KC could certainly stand to increase its density a few times over, and doing so wouldn't reduce us to third world squalor.  You look around at other cities, Minneap...

If the Royals can win 2 more game in thier next 13, they would be off to a better start than the Chiefs! If the Royals win at least 41 games, they'll have a better season than the Chiefs.  The bar is so low that they could step over it. Also, with the Indians loss today... http://img.photobucket.co...

Great game.  I'm always kind of on the edge of my seat when Greinke's pitching, never quite sure if we're gonna see Good Zack or Evil Zack, but seven innings, six hits, one run, not bad at all.  I'd like to see him get more than three strikeouts (especially since he's on my fantasy team), but I'll t...