Originally Posted by gblowfish (Post 8584934)

This morning driving in 610 was playing one of the Royals commercials trying to get everybody jazzed up about the All Star Game. They had Sweeney doing the commercial. He said his time in KC was "A Magical Time" and that he was thrilled to be an all star, yap yap yap.

A Magical Time.

Yeah Mike. I'm sure it was magic for you.

I know a lot of Royals fans just love Mike Sweeney. Yeah, he's a super nice guy. Great person, big smile, friendly, yep yep yep. He's also the biggest white elephant investment the Royals ever made. I was also there during those times. Not so magical.

In Sweeney's 12 years with the Royals they had a winning record once, in 2003. The Royals paid Sweeney over $71 million in his Royals career, they chose him out of that group of young players to be the main man, and had to let Damon, Dye and Beltran go (for lack of funds), in good part to Sweeney's bloated $11 mill per year five year salary, which they paid out from 2003 to 2007. In 2006, Sweeney was on the DL so much, they ended up paying him over $183,000 per game. He was the offensive power they were counting on for serious offensive production during four 100 (or more) loss seasons. In return for $71 million, Sweeney was "a five time all star," mostly because MLB rules say every team has to be represented by one player. Some years he was deserving, especially early before he got the big bucks. Most of the time, he was simply a hood ornament.

Sucks to be the Royals, I suppose. But there's 71 million great reasons to be Mike Sweeney.

I guess the least he can do for the team is cut a radio spot for them. That's a pretty expensive voice talent for $71 million.

Today, Beltran has been in the heart of the Cards lineup, and of course Damon just got picked up by Cleveland. Sweeney is doing commentary on the MLB cable network. Why do the Royals always give the big money to the wrong guy?

Originally Posted by UCF Knight (Post 8586516)

Difference between Billy and Sweeney is that Sweeney got all 'roided up, got his huge contract, went off the 'Roids, got flabby, out of shape and started getting injured.

Originally Posted by Dr. noonanbeermefever (Post 8586536)

Umm what? Link?

Originally Posted by UCF Knight (Post 8586549)

I am using the popular "everyone took 'roids" in the 90's and early 2000's that is going to keep guys like Jeff Bagwell and Barry Bonds out of the HOF. But, in all reality if you look at how Sweeney changed, body wise it had all the looks of it. He got the extra chin pretty quickly.

Originally Posted by Dr. noonanbeermefever (Post 8586555)

So you're just talking out of your ass again. That's what I figured.

Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 8586657)

Who didn't know that Sweeney was on steroids? Come on now.

Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 8586657)

Who didn't know that Sweeney was on steroids? Come on now.

Originally Posted by Stanley Nickels (Post 8586816)

You guys do know that steroids are particularly helpful in allowing athletes to recover from workouts and in reducing inflammation and swelling.... right? If Sweeney was 'roided out, don't you think he'd have missed less than half of the last decade of his career from injury?

Originally Posted by Dr. noonanbeermefever (Post 8586536)

Umm what? Link?