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If Johnson is indeed the DH, that makes Uribe the backup shortstop. Or Johnson plus losing the DH. #playingwithfire

Boobird's Failsafe: "If a player is booed, and then fails, the ire of fans is shown to be justified. If the player is booed, and then excels, then the ire of fans is again shown to have been justified, because the ire and the fear of ire is what motivates him." You don't find anything self-serving in Vic's post? His tone seems to suggest he's fully aware of the absurdity of in the reasoning. He knowingly leaves himself wide open and seems to take joy in it. I don't call anybody "clueless," but I do disagree with it. And I do and did disagree that Curtis Granderson sucks. And that Michael Cuddyer sucks. I'm not sure we need or needed to return to Granderson, though.

Bob Apodaiquiri.

Jo-el Youngblood

It's a little early in the morning to be leering at video vamps anyhow.

POW!

Not seein' nuttin'.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Here's the George Brett Moment That Will Live Forever [youtube]PseNrUeSmXk[/youtube] What makes this absolutely surreal scene land with a concrete thud in the real world for me is the presence of future Mets John Buck and Jose Lima in the foreground. Wow. And the cherry on the cake that would earn a Hollywood script writer an Oscar: "Who's the pitchers in this game?"

Fman99 wrote: Honestly, NONE OF YOU hate the Royals for this fucking song? You guys are slipping. [youtube]LFasFq4GJYM[/youtube] Oh, I'm all over that.

Torii Hunter, successor to Kirby Puckett as Twins centerfielder and baseball's Ambassador of Fun, calls it a career after 19 seasons. Hopefully he has a better retirement than Kirby.

Lynch.

Jeff Innis.

Pedro Feliciano

Didn't we do this last week or so? Or was that merely post-season games?

Yeah, if Seawolf wants to give away wins, he can root for whatever team Tom Koehler is pitching for. Sheesh.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Strong association with one of America's most fascinating and reviled companies, Wal_Mart Stores. Royals owner David Glass was the second CEO in company history, taking over for founder Sam Walton. He's a big union-buster and symbol of remorseless corporate bullying who supported replacement players in the 1995 strike; opposed any labor deal without a salary cap; revoked press credentials of reporters who asked tough questions of Royals management; slashed KC payroll in half upon his appointment. At Walmart he helped to spearhead the insane expansion of the "supercenter" concept, and made sure stores switched to "case ready" meat packaged at the factory five minutes after butchers in a single store won union representation. Walmart/Glass was influential in the Royals' Class AA team moving from Wichita to NW Arkansas, near company HQ. They play in a stadium named for the Walton family's bank, Arvest. Wait a minute... amid all these credulity-stretching motivations, this is actually a meaningful, authentic reason to hate the Royals. The entire board is stacked with members of the Glass family.

The Boobird's Failsafe returns.

Know what the biggest band ever to come out of Kansas City is? The Chipmunks. The Fucking Chipmunks. Come on, you feel the hate bubbling up in the back of your throat. Let it out.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I don't think I need to hate them. I just want them to lose four of the next seven games, and then they can all get on with their lives. I want them to somehow lose four of the next one! OOOH, I hate! Did you know Ed Hearn was a perfectly healthy man when we traded him to Kansas City? WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?!

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I never had any hate for this franchise, probably going back to my teen age years when the baseball enemy of my baseball enemy was my baseball friend. With just a little bit of luck on their side, those Royals might've gone to the WS four out of five years, making disco era baseball more enjoyable by orders of magnitude. This is why you should HATE. They could've nipped the insufferable Steinbrenner machine in the bud, and FAILED! And going back to that era, I'd have to add that the baby blue road uniforms were a sartorial sin. MAYBE the Expos didn't look terrible in them. MAYBE. I'm still thinking about it. Why did so many of the astroturf teams wear baby blue on the road?

Matt Harvey is your Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year.

Centerfield wrote: Michael Cuddyer sucks. Your track record in these declarations is less than strong.

Well, he acknowledged September. October is scarcely relevant, as small sample as it is. At this point he's not a corner outfielder, but a reserve. And not sucky. You will sing of him before all is said and done. Why not sing now?

Ex-Mets currently advancing the Royal agenda: Chris Young is their fifth starter. Drew Butera, Met draftee and minor leaguer who they sent to Minnesota in the Luis Castillo deal, is their backup catcher. Doug Henry, who learned his way around a bullpen with the 1995-1996 Mets, is their bullpen coach. Jim Fregosi, Jr., whose father cost us Nolan Ryan, is a special assistant to the general manager. Former Met backup catcher Vance Wilson manages their AA affiliate Northwest Arkansas Naturals, which sure sounds like a bunch of filthy hippies to me. The Single A affiliate Wilmington Blue Rocks are managed by Brian Buchanan, who was a Met for 10-minutes, because all players with BB initials will eventually be Mets, unless the second B stands for Bonds. His hitting coach is Abraham N��ez, who incredibly was a Met for eight minutes. Ram�n Castro coaches for the Idaho Falls Chukars, of the High A Pioneer League. I didn't know they got guys who are just label "coach" at that level. I'm guessing he's a roving instructor whose roving stopped there.

Zvon wrote: Zvon wrote: There is no way you can post this w/o sharing the details on Ray's origin story! Tease! I wouldn't know the Sadecki origin story because I never read that comic book. It's a #1 issue so I sealed my copy in a protective sleeve. There's an even rarer alternate #1 issue, but I've only seen pictures of the cover. I never even saw the alt issue on ebay. [fimg=300]https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5744/22427946926_ccfb858439_o.jpg[/fimg] lolol. Love it! Frank Sadecki, the son of Polish immigrant parents, spent his childhood working in the family grocery store rather than playing baseball. As a result, his greatest wish for his son Ray from the beginning was to be �left-handed, (to) like baseball, and become a major leaguer.�1 Frank�s wish was granted as his son, after just a brief minor-league apprenticeship, burst into the big leagues with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1960, the start of a long and successful career in baseball. Raymond Michael Sadecki was born on December 26, 1940, in Kansas City, Kansas, to Frank and Josephine Sadecki. Frank Sadecki, a sheriff who worked out of the US marshal�s office in Kansas City, often had the task of escorting prisoners to the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, and he sometimes took Ray along, stopping on the return trip to catch Cardinals and Browns games in St. Louis. Ray began to garner serious attention as a player while at Ward High School in Kansas City (where he was also an excellent student). Not long after graduating in 1958, Sadecki, just 17 years old, signed with Cardinals scout Runt Marr for a $50,000 bonus plus another $18,000 over the first three years. While in high school, Sadecki had also attracted the attention of a cheerleader named Diane Rush. The two married on July 13, 1960. Sadecki said he never regretted forgoing college for baseball. �College probably wasn�t as big a deal, just in life,� he told an interviewer in 2009. �We were still postwar people who thought, �Hey, go get a job.� � SABR BASEBALL BIO PROJECT Diane Sadecki, who I suddenly realize actually has been in my kitchen, was good with the rod 'n' reel.