Hope he continues to hit like a poor man's Ichiro.

This team needs all the batting help it can get.

HOLY ****! That's so Ichiro like!

Nori's on fire...

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:


DAMN AOKI!

Helluva catch

I love Japs

Ron Artest said he was going to change his name to Jesus Shuttleworth after watching Ray Allen in the playoffs two years ago.

I'm finna change my name to Nori Aoki.

Aoki feels like he can do anything

:hmmm::shake:

Aoki signed a deal with the devil. This is the best 3 days of baseball in his entire life. He didn't dominate like this in little league.

WE NEED MOAR ASIANS! LMAO

well yes I know that but I figured he had quite a few and had no idea that it could climb that high so quickly. That's a crazy jump that you just don't see in September in 3 games.

Dude.... yes and it's not even a discussion at this point.

Cum pie? Yeah, no thanks.

Asians not fazed by sidearm pitching.

Before the White Sox series, he was OBP'ing .333. Not including today's game, (although I suspect it will definitely go up), he's at .345 now.

11 ABs is quite a lot when you think about it. I watch a lot of baseball, but I can't remember a stretch that good, at least, in recent history.

LMAO - dude, you are one of my favorite posters.

Hootie's future 10 posts would disagree.

Don't care. It would be monumentally reeruned to argue otherwise. After tonight, he'll have his 10th straight quality start.

Now's a good time to start getting warmed up, fat ass!

What's the score? What inning is it?

All I can get on the radio down here is the Cardinals' game. Sucks to be in radio-free MO.

Dinny

**** Belly.

Ventura should be in the starting rotation in the playoffs. Anyone else who disagree with that is an idiot.

I'd start Ventura too. His stuff is too good to waste.

But I can at least see the appeal of putting him in the bullpen. You put Ventura/Finnegan/Herrera/Davis/Holland out there, you could end games by the 5th inning.

5-1 Royals after 5

5-1, Royals, going to the top of the 6th.

I'd rather take my chances with him being the starter, and put Guthrie in the pen.

I'd do that too. But if you're being real, Guthrie is not going to pitch unless one of the other starters gets completely hammered.

I get it too. But it also means Guthrie would be in the rotation, and that just makes no sense whatsoever. He's a DISTANT number 5 in our 5 man rotation.

Just preparing you for the inevitable. I have always wanted to keep him as a starter, but the reliever idea was intriguing. Or hearing it over and over again with slight variations has ingrained it as a valid idea into my mind

Since the Royals have never been in the playoffs in my lifetime, I'm not really sure how teams set up their pitching staff when in the playoffs. Do they go 3-man or 4-man? If it's 3-man, you have to have Shields in there, obviously, but after that, it's hard to say.

I'd go with Shields, Vargas, and Ventura as the starters, but only because Duffy has been injured recently. Duffy can bring the same thing as Ventura could out of the pen. Go to Guthrie if it's a blowout in your favor or if you're out of arms in a long game.

****

Sure, why not. We're the Royals.

Are they looking at his hand?????

Blister?

Thus it's a perfect spot for Guthrie to be the long reliever if one of our starters are getting hammered, or God forbid, gets injured. It's a better option than having Hendriks.

Shields
Vargas
Ventura
Duffy

You can probably make a case on flipping Vargas, Ventura, or Duffy on the #2 spot.

Pen better be moving.

Probably, hope that's all

Edit : Shit, this was a terrible 10,000th post. Congrats to me.

Sweet looking double play!

Have to think he's done.

That's what I'm thinking. He's done enough tonight anyway.

WAITER - CHECK PLEASE

Ventura is bitchin at Bark at the Park! Ace Detective!

Thanks for using it on me.

Well, if it's a blister problem, just take a page from a Moises Alou playbook.

Just when you thought Liam Hendricks was gone...

Although hopefully Zimmer can come up and make a spot start.

Don't you ****ing say that!

I'm not sure that option is even on the table?

Looked out

He was safe

Got him.

Colon went on the DL today, can they bring up a replacement?

I am not sure he got the leg before the foot was it. Not sure they would have over-turned it though.

Nope

Thanks, guys.

I hope they can put the Woolah Boombah on the Tigers.

Dinny

Don't they lose the challenge after the 6th anyway?

Yea but I doubt they'd bring up Zimmer for anything give his continued rehab with that injury. I don't know though, it's an interesting thought.

Zimmer got the win for the Storm Chasers championship game last night.

Aoki!

Aoki's OBP trending upwards!

.929 On Base Percentage in this series. ****ing awesome.

Zimmer has been in the relief role for Omaha.

I doubt we see anything like this again, at least in a single series.

Reaching base 13 out of 14 plate appearances? Yeah that record may stand forever

Oh, it's historic. And you don't see that very often at all.

Glad to see Ventura out there. Looks like he just took a page out of Moises Alou's playbook.

Sit!

Sit down, bitch.

Can you imagine how hard he'd throw if he efficiently used his lower body?

Give him time. He's just a rookie. He'll figure it out, I have no doubts about that.

Sure, not even really much of a criticism, just laughing that every follow through is different from the last.

What's the thought process in pinch hittin Ibanez instead of Moose?

Just getting him some work in a game we have locked up, I'd guess

Yosted?

Oh I know you weren't being critical. It's just the consistency part that he'll get with experience.

Guthrie absolutely SHOULD NOT start in the playoffs.

At best he'd be a long reliever in the 'pen.

1.Shields
2.Duffy
3.Ventura
4.Vargas

Yost should be canned if he starts Guthrie in the playoffs.

I'm still hoping he doesn't make the playoff roster. Sign him up as ball boy or something if his presence is so useful.

4-4 twins

Come on Twins....