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You Too Can Vote 25 Times For The Royals!
I did my duty this morning, voting 25 times for the Royals. I don’t think it helped, as there are probably no Royals in the top…. anything in their respective positions. So now you can feel secure in knowing your favorite players are doing o.k. in the polls, and the Royals need your help! So vote the 24 times you have left for the Royals, because I’ve done my part.
Now to baseball that counts, because home-field advantage in the World Series doesn’t really matter to a fourth place team.
The Royals play the White Sox this weekend, a four game series. You all know that I hate four game series, but I won’t be doing too much about it because I’ve got company coming tomorrow (thanks to all of you- one of you- that gave me advice). After that, I get to go to a family reunion which will have even more under-10 year olds. But it will be lots of fun, even though I’ll be away from the blog for about a week.
After that detour, I will now review the last few Royals games:
In our last outing, pitching was great, but… everything else was a vacuum, if you know what I mean. Thus, we lost. Again. We’ve been doing a lot of that lately, but being a Royals fan, you get used to it. *sigh.* The lone bright spots this past week has been Billy Butler, who is doing great at the plate (4-for-4 yesterday in the losing effort) and Zack Greinke, who is… back to normal. Of course, on this team, “normal” is “excellent.” Butler and Greinke are the full, five course Thanksgiving dinner, and the rest of the Royals are the lime jello salad. Not that there’s anything wrong with jello salad, but I’m hungry right now, so I decided to slip that analogy in there.
I sense a dinner bell coming up, so that’s all for now. More to come next week!
The Odd Blog Week In Review (Week 8)
Is it really week 8 already? I lost track with that quarter in review. Anyway, this week has been like a remote with one button: eject, eject, eject, eject, eject…
Let’s break it down:
Memorial Day
The first ejection of the week occured Monday when our manager, Mr. Trey Hillman, got his first ejection of the year. Other than that, there were more fireworks than there should have been on Memorial Day: The Yankees, Dodgers, Tigers, Rays, Indians, White Sox, and Pirates all knocked in at least 10 runs, and the Astros, Reds, Red Sox, Padres, Giants, Marlins, and Cubs, along with the seven teams mentioned earlier, all got 10 hits. Except for the Cardinals and Brewers (1-0) , there were fireworks all around.
Other ejections today included: Cubs pitcher Ted Lily, Padres manager Bud Black, and Padres catcher Nick Hundley.
May 27
Today featured even more ejections, notably Carlos Zambrano, who then threw the ball into the outfield, and took a few swings at a Gatorade machine. Wait, what is a Gatorade machine doing in a dugout? What happened to the jugs that they used to use? That’s very unsportsmanlike, the machine and Zambrano.
May 28
There were ejections galore in the Twins/Red Sox game tonight. In the seventh inning, the Twins’ catcher and manager were both ejected for arguing a play at the plate, and in the bottom of the seventh, the Red Sox’s catcher and manager were ejected for arguing balls and strikes. Interesting.
That’s all for today. There will be one more post, and on Thursday I’m leaving to go on vacation. So no posts for a while starting Thursday. I will not exist on the Internet, apparently.
The Odd Blog First Quarter In Review
Well, one quarter in already and we’ve seen a lot of things happen, some good, some bad. Obviously some of the worst things to happen to baseball this season so far have been the stunning news concerning Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez and banned substances. In my opinion, this has gone way too far. Anyone who is any good at this sport is probably under suspicion, and because of this rightful paranoia, the sport has become a joke.
I have no idea what I just said in that last sentence. I hope I sounded intelligent.
On the other hand, there have been some delightful tidbits of oddness occurring so far this season. The Twins’ 20-1 of the White Sox was odd, though anytime a team scores 20 runs it’s fairly odd. Maybe they used steroids.
There have been quite a few surprise teams. I am now going to list my projected finish for all 30 teams, along with where they are so far. I got… four right. But I was close on most of them.
| Team | Proj. Finish | Current | Right/Wrong |
| AL East | |||
| Boston | 1 | 2 | X |
| New York | 2 | 3 | X |
| Tampa Bay | 3 | 4 | X |
| Toronto | 4 | 1 | X |
| Baltimore | 5 | 5 | O |
| AL Central | |||
| Kansas City | 1 | 2 | X |
| Detroit | 2 | 1 | X |
| Chicago | 3 | 4 | X |
| Cleveland | 4 | 5 | X |
| Minnesota | 5 | 3 | X |
| AL West | |||
| Los Angeles | 1 | 2 | X |
| Texas | 2 | 1 | X |
| Oakland | 3 | 4 | X |
| Seattle | 4 | 3 | X |
| NL West | |||
| Los Angeles | 1 | 1 | O |
| Colorado | 2 | 5 | X |
| San Diego | 3 | 3 | O |
| San Fran. | 4 | 2 | X |
| Arizona | 5 | 4 | X |
| NL Central | |||
| Chicago | 1 | 3 | X |
| Houston | 2 | 6 | X |
| Milwaukee | 3 | 1 | X |
| St. Louis | 4 | 2 | X |
| Cincinnati | 5 | 4 | X |
| Pittsburgh | 6 | 5 | X |
| NL East | |||
| New York | 1 | 2 | X |
| Philadelphia | 2 | 1 | X |
| Florida | 3 | 4 | X |
| Atlanta | 4 | 3 | X |
| Washington | 5 | 5 | O |
So, obviously I can’t make projections like other people. I had Toronto in fourth, and Colorado and Houston in second. How wrong I was. That San Diego pick was a surprise, because I really don’t care about the NL West that much. I don’t really care about the NL at all, because the Royals are an AL team.
More oddness; this time, deja vu for the Royals. We lost our second straight game by a score of 5-0 to the St. Louis Cardinals. You’re probably thinking, how is losing a game 5-0 odd? I’ll tell you, of course. Losing a game 5-0 is odd if you lost the previous game 5-0. KC now has had a lack of any runs scored for 24 innings, and we’re below .500. There’s something about being above .500 that makes you never want to go back. It’s like Lay’s potato chips. You can’t eat just one, no matter what the potato chip police tell you. Things just haven’t been going right in KC. We’re in the Twilight Zone or something. Today I was playing hockey in my driveway and the puck mysteriously disappeared. While I go try to make sure nothing else goes wrong, let’s get two more comments on this post so I can have more comments than entries, despite the lack of readability of this entry. There is seriously something wrong here. The Odd Blog private investigators flush it out: next time on The Odd Blog.
Wow, I’m deteriorating fast. I will end this now, before things get out of hand.
2…2…2…1?
Very disappointed with the Royals last night. They should have scored another run and been consistent. Oh, well, you can’t win ‘em all.
The Odd Blog Week in Review
An exciting week for Kansas City as we were in first place! It may have only been for one day, but first place is first place. And if you’re in first place after scoring six runs in your first three games, that either means that the division is terrible, or your pitching is superb…I’m hoping it’s both.
White Sox 4, Royals 2
It wasn’t a good opening day for KC as the guy we are paying nine million dollars to gave up the game winning home run. See the problem with the Yankees?
Royals 2, White Sox 0
Another strong pitching performance here, and the Royals won this time. I hope Zack Grienke pitches like this all year: 0 runs on 3 hits for Sox, and the series is tied up
Royals 2, White Sox 1
This time a new acquisition won it for us, as Coco Crisp went deep for the game winner. I got a little nervous at the end, but Joakim Soria is one of the top 3 closers in the game, and he was able to shut the Sox down for the game and series win.
Yankees 4, Royals 1
We didn’t achieve the magic number in this game, but we won a moral victory with our new stadium. Maybe. Sorry about moving the Yankees from the bottom, Julia. By the way, what is Toronto doing on top in the East?
Major League Baseball was hit by a tragedy on Thursday when it was discovered that LA Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart. I’m not that good at writing about deaths, but my thoughts and prayers are certainly with his family and the Angels as they go through this difficult time. I hope this opens more eyes about the dangers of drinking and driving, not just to the driver but to other people on the road.
Opening Night
We have our first snow-out, before the season even starts. The White Sox/Royals series set to begin tomorrow has been postponed to Tuesday thanks to forecasts showing snow, high winds, etc.
My playoff picks, less than half an hour before the season starts, to complete my series of previews:
AL Wild Card: New York Yankees
NL Wild Card: Philadelphia Philles
ALDS:
Angels over Yankees
Red Sox over Royals
NLDS:
Phillies over Mets
Cubs over Dodgers
ALCS:
Angels over Red Sox
NLCS:
Cubs over Phillies
World Series:
Angels over Cubs (Sorry Cubs fans, you’ll have to wait another year.)
And now I sit back and watch the season opener…
Who is this St. Patrick?
And what did he want with Ireland’s snakes? Apparently, he is credited with ridding the country of snakes, but Ireland never really had any snakes. At least that is what Wikipedia said.
AL Central preview coming up, but first, Julia from Julia’s Rants appeared to be, ah, slightly irritated that I despise the New England Patriots. I’m a Bills fan, and when you see Adam Vinateri hit all those Super Bowl winning field goals after the infamous “Wide Right.” But that’s football, let’s talk baseball.
I think at this point, everybody in the AL Central is pretty much the same. Through many hours (or seconds) of analyzing the division, my projection is…
- Kansas City Royals
- Detroit Tigers
- Chicago White Sox
- Cleveland Indians
- Minnesota Twins
I may be a little biased.
This is one really good division race. It will be exciting.
AL West is next…
I’m Back
Some people might consider that unfortunate. I don’t.
I didn’t cover the White Sox before I took a break for the holidays, so here are their moves so far this offseason (besides demotions, promotions to/from minor leagues etc.)
They signed: Infielder Dayan Viciedo, who has no major league experience; Infielder Eider Torres, who has come to the plate a grand total of 9 times in his career but scored a run every time he got a hit. (Torres, along with pitcher John Van Benschoten signed minor-league contracts but were invited to spring training.)
The White Sox projected starting lineup includes:
LF) Carlos Quentin
CF) Brian Anderson
RF) Jermaine Dye
1B) Paul Konerko
2B) Chris Getz
3B) Alexei Ramirez
SS) Wilson Betemit
C) A.J. Pierzinski Pierzynski (this guy was on my fantasy team last year, I should know ho to spell his name)
Pitchers:
Octavio Dotel
Scott Linebrink
Matt Thornton
DJ Carrasco
Ehren Wassermann
Adam Russell
Kelvin Jimenez
Bobby Jenks
Mark Buehrle
John Danks
Gavin Floyd
Clayton Richard
Lance Broadway
Jose Contreras
Hmmmm…. Season predictions coming up within the next month- keep your eyes peeled. Not literally.
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