August 2009
Upon Further Review, The Eighth Wonder Of The World Is…
Still not Yankee Stadium. At this point I’d normally go on to say that it’s the Royals’ stadium, but today I’m really feeling that the first ballpark that should be added to the list should be Wrigley or Fenway, somewhere in the 2000s range. But why am I bringing this up now? Because I finally, FINALLY got to go see the Royals’ new and improved stadium this weekend! And from what I’ve seen, it’s better than Yankee Stadium. Let’s compare:
Cheaper Tickets: Royals. Come on. I searched one ticket site for this. The cheapest Royals ticket was $7 (you can get them for $2.50 at a local grocery store). The Yankees… didn’t have any listed. I’m assuming they were trying to cover up the $300 tickets for the upper deck or something like that.
Better Team: Yankees. Another gimme. This could be the reason they charge too much… but probably not.
Stadium Name: Royals. Kauffman Stadium beats out Yankee Stadium any day. We know it’s the Yankees! Tell us something we don’t know.
Stadium Features: Royals. The Yankees do have a nice park, but 1) It’s a launch pad for home runs, while Kauffman is giving up less this year, and B) I don’t see a giant video screen in center field anything like ours. Some people may argue that having more home runs is better for the park, but I like seeing the game based on speed and daring, not on who can swing the bat the best. If I had my way, I’d bring back the dead-ball era.
Well, from what I see here it looks like the Royals have a much better stadium than the Yankees. Sorry New Yorkers, but the facts speak for themselves.
While I was at the game, (sitting in row FF in the nosebleed section- hey, our tickets aren’t too cheap!) I watched the Royals bullpen implode yet again. 8 runs in the seventh off of… Kyle Farnsworth! Hey, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. Apparently injury rehab didn’t help him, because he’s still doing terrible.
Zack Greinke set our team’s K record at… the K! Go figure. 15 strikeouts and we have ourselves a winner! Is the team finally giving him support? No, it’s just that it’s pretty hard to lose if you throw 15 strikeouts.
ABC is airing a new show called Shaq vs.. I’m sure you’ve all heard of it. Apparently he’s 0-for-2. Not so cocky now, is he? The real show’s coming up this week- Albert Pujols. Let’s all watch him get creamed again. (He also has to take on Michael Phelps- that’ll be even worse).
And the world’s greatest flip-flopper has flip-flopped once again. Yes, Brett Favre is back everybody. Let’s hope he retires by the third week of the season to play- and I here I quote the future “less rough football with those guys from Wrangler.”…well, maybe, maybe not.
I haven’t been posting as often since school has started, and it’ll drop off even more at a proportional rate to the Royals’ playoff chances. Saturday, my normal post day, is my birthday, so next Saturday I should be back up, hopefully. That’s all I have for now.
The Odd Blog Summer In Review
It may not seem like it, but this is probably make this summer because on Friday it’s back to school again. I can’t believe this… it seems way to soon to go back to… that place. I’ve taken the last few weeks off to enjoy as much of summer as I can, and that last post sums up the Royals’ season anyway, so I don’t feel bad about taking off announced. Well, I tried to announce it but for some reason Twitter was down so I couldn’t do anything about it. As far as I know, it’s still down here for some reason.
It’s been a wild summer, so let’s take you back to some of the memorable moments. (MY memorable moments. You can do your own.)
First of all, somewhere in there David Ortiz was discovered to have used steroids. You can go here to read my usual spiel. I’m too lazy to write it, and you’ve heard it too many times anyway, so just imagine it.
Now to the summer in animals! Everybody remembers last year when there were a bunch of bugs at Jacobs Field in Cleveland. This year, it was birds.
photo: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ki5EPOdCHyM/SjHdoUwom61/AAAAAAAADII/HtsKQflRzO4/s400/Cleveland+bird_6-11-09_2.jpg
Some say Coco Crisp couldn’t throw out the runner. I think we should play it over anyway… in a dome! It’s not that I don’t like playing out in the elements. I just dislike it when stray birds affect the outcome of the game. Grumble…
Then there were the bees at the Padres game. I didn’t really care about those, but I’m still wondering why the Padres had a beekeeper on speed dial.
Now there’s this little incident from Kansas City:
photo: mlb.com
Whoa. That picture was a little bigger than I wanted it to be. I still need some work putting images in. Anyway, this one didn’t cause too much of a delay, and it didn’t really mess up the game or anything, so I’m saying that this was probably the best animal encounter 2009. Of course, if it had been Coco Crisp up to bat instead of in the field in Cleveland, I’d probably choose differently.
Now back to the present. I’m that are offense finally learned how to play the game. (You swing the bat at the ball. Not at the air, the ball!) We’ve had 40 hits in the last three games, as opposed to three hits in 40 games the last few months (purely hypothetical). Even so, I feel like we’ve cemented our place in the basement of the AL Central. Now we’ve just got one more obstacle:
photo: sportslogos.net
Come on, Natinals! You may not be able to spell your own team name right, but you can start winning games! Let the Royals have the first overall draft pick! You don’t *cough cough* need it! *cough*
That’s all for now. I’ll probably get back to blogging once I get back into the grind of school. Argh. School…
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