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Baseball Season Preview: Kansas City Royals

Tuffy — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:46:17 EDT

@A Pimp Named Daver4470: Rany will calculate your ass for that.

Also, this preview is 64 kinds of awesome. I fear this will also be the Royals' win total, but the preview is grand.

Baseball Season Preview: Kansas City Royals

Whitey Fisk — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:09:24 EDT

Speaking of Milwaukee, to tell the truth, if the Royals and Brewers switched leagues for 2008, the smart money might be on the Royals snagging more wins.

Um, yeah, because they'd be playing in the NL Central instead of the AL Central.

Whitey Fisk

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The Sports Hernia — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:58:02 EDT

That picture speaks for me.

The Sports Hernia

Baseball Season Preview: Kansas City Royals

josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:52:14 EDT

@shea_guevara: Amazing. +1.

josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you

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1980 David Bowie From The Music Video Ashes To Ashes — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:47:27 EDT

@chilltown: You mean David Glass?

1980 David Bowie From The Music Video Ashes To Ashes

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josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:42:10 EDT

@Afino: Puh-leeze. Bill Pecota has nothing on Mark Gubicza.

josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you

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Keep Your Sox On — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:16:54 EDT

@Gourmet Spud: I think we all know now that Sabrmetrics makes Baby Jesus cry.

Keep Your Sox On

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Keep Your Sox On — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:16:15 EDT

Anyone else notice the irony of a stat-based preview highlighting the potential successes of an anti-stat GM and manager?

Keep Your Sox On

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shea_guevara — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:05:41 EDT

@Sheepblog: Charlie [Liebrandt] don't surf.

shea_guevara

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Weed Against Speed — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:05:16 EDT

"Royals with cheese."

/I got nothin'

Weed Against Speed

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Chamomiles Davis — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:04:49 EDT

@The White Boom Boom: It looks like me in right field at my first little league game.

/deep, deep in right field

Chamomiles Davis

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Stev D — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:04:18 EDT

In the words of the poet Willam Cummings Bryant:

The Royals play like my old, poet balls smell. Badly.

Stev D

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Lunatic Fringe — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:03:50 EDT

@Hit Bull Win Steak:

/OT

Do you know they took down the bull at the DBAP
to replace it with a newer 2-sided one ?

The one they removed is going to the concourse where
the really old one from the movie is now. They claim the're going to send the ancient one to Cooperstown.

/end OT

Lunatic Fringe

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The White Boom Boom — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:01:52 EDT

This picture is perfectly indicitive of the team it previews.

The White Boom Boom

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gunga galunga gunga - gunga galunga — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:59:18 EDT

Needs more pine tar.

gunga galunga gunga - gunga galunga

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Hit Bull Win Steak — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:58:04 EDT

maybe if the Royals didnt play the Globetrotters every game they'd...

Hit Bull Win Steak

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Steve Trachsel, Ace — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:57:08 EDT

@Tracy Ham and Eggs: Wound, not would. Dumbass.

Steve Trachsel, Ace

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Steve Trachsel, Ace — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:56:36 EDT

I just finished a fantasy draft.

I would up with 3 Royals

This is not a good thing.

Steve Trachsel, Ace

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Secret Identity — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:56:26 EDT

Are you ready for a universe in which the Royals are good?

That universe exists. It's called RBI Baseball 3.

Secret Identity

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chilltown — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:54:49 EDT

Bill Glass is not amused by this "excitement" and "fun".

chilltown

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She Blinded Me With Violence — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:54:35 EDT

So how's Bo Jackson gonna do this year?

She Blinded Me With Violence

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Hit Bull Win Steak — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:54:15 EDT

"If we consider the dictum that the horizons of our realities are defined by the limits of our dreams..."

/brain shits pants

Hit Bull Win Steak

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Lunatic Fringe — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:54:10 EDT

Wow, A Royals fan taking a swipe at West Virginia

...glass houses, stones....

Lunatic Fringe

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A Pimp Named DaveR — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:53:39 EDT

Of all the fan of the Royals, Will McD is the smartest.

A Pimp Named DaveR

Baseball Season Preview: Kansas City Royals

Spors Gratia Sportis — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:53:05 EDT

I only had time to read the first sentence of each paragraph. This is what I got:

Royals
Cheesy, eclipse, shiny
France, Joakim, butler
Misidentification, complimentary, patriotic
Awful

As far as I can tell, this is an excellent preview of KC's season.

Spors Gratia Sportis

Baseball Season Preview: Kansas City Royals

gunga galunga gunga - gunga galunga — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:52:37 EDT

I stopped reading after "Baseball Season Preview: Kansas City Royals"

gunga galunga gunga - gunga galunga

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Phony Gwynn — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:52:18 EDT

I'm 100% behind the Kid Canada Royals. Go Blue!

Phony Gwynn

Baseball Season Preview: Kansas City Royals

UkraineNotWeak — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:51:56 EDT

The eighteenth century was shorter.

UkraineNotWeak

Baseball Season Preview: Kansas City Royals

Sheepblog — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:51:22 EDT

wait...don't they surf in Missouri?

Sheepblog

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Gourmet Spud — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:50:49 EDT

[Moore's Christianity]...represents another sense in which Moore is the anti-Theo Epstein or Mark Shapiro.

I thought Muslims were the anti-Christians. Then what the hell is this whole war about?

Gourmet Spud

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Carlton_Whitfield — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:46:59 EDT

No mention of the giant new video screen? It's the best thing we've got going for us!

Carlton_Whitfield

Baseball Season Preview: Kansas City Royals

Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:46:00 EDT

Holy hell.

This is me printing this out and taking it to the john.

I'll be back around blogdome time

Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies

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Marty McSuperFly — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:45:42 EDT

I drifted off somewhere in the middle of this column. The Royals moved to Dayton or something?

Marty McSuperFly

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Its The Beer Talking — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:45:42 EDT

Their GM eschews "Moneyball" strategies in favor of subjective scouting.
Their manager loves small-ball and bunting.

My theory? The team is secretly being run by Joe Morgan in an attempt to kill Ken Tremendous.

Its The Beer Talking

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Doyle McPoyle — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:45:02 EDT

You guys still have Knoblauch, right? Beltran sends his regards.

Doyle McPoyle

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Chamomiles Davis — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:44:59 EDT

Yes (Johnny) Damon, glad you'll quit the team,
Its gaities now languid seem;
Then suites and luxury boxes known
We'll taste, and sip th' untainted stream.
In Summer's sultry noon-tide heat,
I'll lead thee to the Fenway grove;
There hush thy cares, or pleas'd repeat
Those plays that won a Golden Glove.

(with obvious apologies to Thomas Godfrey)

Chamomiles Davis