KCRag Forum

NDTeve wrote: "So this thing opens in 2009. Ummm, yeah, sure."

Who said that?

i said it. i will say it again. i doubt it opens this summer.

KCMax wrote: I think Berroa is being considered, but everything I have read says Cody Ransom will get the job unless the Yankees acquire someone.

a lot of people in the yanks system are not that excited about a thirty something with 183 unsuccessful MLB at bats starting at third base.

The overall economic impact on the city may be up for debate - but in terms of direct impact on the city budget, they are netting at least $4mil in positive gain.  so how about the hotel rooms the teams bring to the city each year? there is no debate there, you dont get that revenue without the spo...

LenexatoKCMO wrote: KMBC said $6 million a year in sales tax last night. 

oh wait, mean said economists said the teams bring nothing to the city, i am shocked.

He and all those economists are stupid. you mean all the ones paid off to tip a survey/study one way or the other? those economists? dont pull that economist shit on me, there are ones for every side of the debate. you dont have those sports teams, you lose thousands of hotel room nights annually. ...

but you'd be leaving blue springs, so that makes it a blue springs or jackson county problem. it is. they ponied up 500m within the county. now the city needs to continue to kick in the money to keep the stadiums up that they promised. shit, cut the funding for the marketing of the airport. does an...

Hell yesh, I would love to see someone actually own & operate WOF as if it wasn't just a feeder park for tem...(cash cow for the company to pork up Cedar Point).  We might actually get some quality rides, rather than this run-of-the-mill BS...not to mention getting back the parks identity. well...

I never said anything about the quality of pitching he faced in spring training, all I said is that he hits well.  Clearly he does it because the level of competition in spring training is not very good -- this is exactly the argument that you are presented with every time you declare that some has...

pretty much everything left in the west bottoms ( meaning, the buildings that are left that havent collapsed ) are in use now. there is very little vacant down there anymore, beyond small one story shitty buildings. all of the larger structures down there for the most part are in use, just not all g...

What did you do to help the downtown stadium effort? nothing. same thing he does for every dtkc effort. shit, i live 1,000 miles away and did more for the cause. its over, and no dt stadium is gonna get built for less than 500m ever in any city nowadays. any that opened in the past 4 years started ...

Berroa's spring training batting averages: 2002: .297 2003: .308 2004: .323 2005: .441 2006: .451 2007: .263 2008: .250 2009: .500 Sorry, Berroa had two mediocre springs to go with six excellent ones.  He does not hit well *every* spring.  I stand corrected. goddamn you have a lot of time on your h...

It will be gold according to these pictures from the "Around the Horn" blog on the team website: http://royals.mlblogs.com/ if you watched the video from the star, they showed it off in this stainless steel glory, saying, it wouldnt need painted, etc. they made it sound as though it would...

The Cardinals owners weren't behind any plan to pay 75% of their costs, either.   Their wishes weren't granted.   You following? no, i am not following. sure, st louis ownership group ( wealthier than glass, i am sure ) got tired of waiting, and just handled it. busch was not that great of a stadiu...

Shane Costa he has had numerous chances, he sucks, gload is a better hitter. Willie Bloomquist gload is a better hitter. bloomie can play more positions. i dont think bloomquist can do the OF that well though. Mark Teahen teahen is a better hitter and athlete in all capacities, no doubt. but mark t...

KCMax wrote: For another team.

who do you see that we have in our system that is a better utility OF and IF?? please name someone. thanks.

GRID wrote: Who would buy them? Six flags is about to go under from what I have heard.

dont worry grid, we dont need worlds of fun and oceans of fun. or any of the six flags. the legends at village west is getting schlitterbahn, the best park ever anywhere!!

hey nobody worry about a thing. schlitterbahn is about to open the best ever water park in the world, in rural kansas. better days are coming.

LenexatoKCMO wrote: Just like all those "hicks" you see running around DC in their Hoya's gear.   

lived there over a decade, didnt see people running around in hoyas gear that often. if anything, in march and only when they were winning. now redskins gear, yeah, all of the time.

phuqueue wrote: Angel Berroa always hits well in the spring.

which is why he was sent to AAA two years running based on shitty springs. in 2007, buddy bell and who ever the hitting coach was that year ( barnett? ) spent two hours after a game working with him on hitting right there on the diamond after a game.

what is more bizarre, the fact that the yankees signed angel berroa to a minor league deal with a chance to make the club, or the fact that he is hitting well for them this spring, and is now a serious contender to start at 3B for them?