Francoeur Ichiro.

Good Lord Frenchy. Your approach sucks, but I am glad you are hitting hot right now.

Frenchy just stole a base

COUNTRY BREAKFAST!!!!

:D

This team is ****ing fun to watch.

Adda baby billy.

Did he just draw a penis on tv?

I would like to change this years slogan to something a little more simple... 'Billy ****in' Butler'

well maybe I need to turn the game off and occupy myself otherwise

Agreed. In years past I would have turned it after we went down by 4. This years team can either win or lose it at any point. The suspense is the stuff of legend.

Nice way to hit out of a slump Billy.

It's gonna be a fun year.

Lol I thought the same thing.

I just hope we can hang on to get win #2 of the year.

ROFL

Haha...Billy talking to everyone.

Billy: "You see my grand slam?"

Ump: "Ya"

Billy: "It was pretty cool."

That was a huge inning, not just in terms of runs but also in terms of accumulating pitches on Hamels. Very important when you are talking about teams with weaker bullpens.

ROFL

Out of the zone till it's 3-2. God damn he is raking.

Well said.

:thumb:

Weak bullpen?

Do you mean fatigued bullpen?

has Shields dialed it in last few innings?

hahaha.

Me too man sometimes I like to just keep typing and not use any punctuation because it's overrated and takes too much time I can type like 300 words per minute if I don't use any punctuation and just do run on sentences like a boss

Very much so, he's cruising

Ryan Howard blows, lol.

edit: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo

Yeah Philly fans!

Shields is throwing some sick nasty stuff right now.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Howard is washed up.

No, I mean knocking out an ace for a middle innings reliever.

Shields' curveball is vicious right now.

Well I was kind of close. I guessed 9 Ks, 8 IP and 1 ER

What ? No defense for Yost's stupidity yesterday other than he thinks Holland as the ego to endure and learn at the expense of a team loss ?? Listen my friend, Yost IMO, did more damage hurting Holland's ego than helping him yesterday by not removing him after the 2nd walk only to walk a 3rd. Only for the potential for this to transfer and remind this already vulnerable weak ego team that they will find a way to piss on their shoes somehow. Well see if Yost makes better decisions today IF the situation presents itself again, with the lead going into late innings as this game today looks like it could head that direction.

Hopefully Holland will throw well.

I work with his son's mother. Doesn't sound like he's ever going to completely recover from that Achilles' injury.

I blame Ned Yost for leaving Shields out there. What about Bruce Chen?!?

I blame immigrant workers.

Do you even watch baseball?

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I already defended it but it seems your reading comprehension is on par with your grammar.

Wow that was filthy.

Other than Hoch, i wouldn't consider the Royals bullpen to be weak.

I think Holland's showing last night was an anomaly.

I sense a curve or a change

They still owe him $115 million too. Big time ouch.

I wish him all the best....right after the next 4 innings.

I think he's talking about the Phillies pen

No - I was referring to the Phillies. Hence, why I said HAMELS.

Shields looks good.

Phillies got alot of lucky breaks in that first inning.

Anyone know Cassel/Hamels' pitch count?

I get it now. :thumb:

The last sentence of your post is what confused me.

not exact but mid 90's?

Yankees have no chance this year between the Rays and Sox.

Hammels is done. They are going to let him go into 100's on pitch count. LOL

Duh na na nuh...locaine.

Oh I see why, now re-reading it. Yea, I meant the Phillies and other teams in general who do not have ridiculously stacked pens. The Royals may have the best pen in MLB.

What you hope happens with these young pitchers as they watch Shields is that they learn and take on a Shields mental nastiness as well as the season goes on.

If Getzy gets a hit here do you PH for Shields?

edit: So much for that!

The Indians tagged David Price for 8 runs today. Both Cy Young winners last year got hammered today.

That was not moar power getz.

I get it now.

And I couldn't agree more!

Here's the thing you're not thinking about: Who was available yesterday to replace Holland?

Herrera was not. Crow was not. Collins pitched two innings the day before and was not available. At that point, you're looking at one of three guys, all of whom had pitched the day before:

Luke Hochevar (yeah, let's bring him in with the bases juiced and nobody out)

JC Gutierrez (nope)

Bruce Chen (again, bases juiced, nobody out, not the situation to use him)

You saying he hurt Holland's ego is complete bullshit. Anybody who pitched at a high/competitive level will tell you the pitcher WANTS the trust from his skipper in that spot.

I certainly did (pitched at the high school/legion level). Every guy I ever covered in a high school, college or major level level certainly did.

If Kelvin Herrera had been rested and sitting in the bullpen, sure, you have an option to replaced Holland. As it was, he was KC's best chance of getting out of that inning, even with the struggles he'd already displayed.

Atta boy Shields

HAHAHAHA

Shields!

Time for the sloth to drive him in!

Hamels is toast.

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Bahaha Alex cracking up at Shields' slow ass.

Awesome, missed that when I was getting a beer.

Alex

Well said.

ROFLROFL

ROFL How are you going to remove him after the 2nd walk? At that point, you might get some up to loosen, but they would not have ready until the game was over.

Howard I so fat I dunno why subway has him doing health commercials.

I think Shields could have made it home - but do you really want to put your Ace in a position to make a hard slide?

Not really. Duncan is thinking like any baseball manager should by analyzing player's talent levels. What he should be doing, as well as Yost, is psychoanalyzing every player for every situation to determine who has the mental capacity for each situation.

Think about it.

Nope, it's the correct call to hold him

REX:

"OK. So, uh. Here is where the balls meet the shaft, uh, of the bat. Solid contact here. Moose really swings the stick hard. OK. Uh. Jam sammich."

Lets go Esky!!!!

naaa

WALK ESKY TO GET TO BUTLER AGAIN!!!!

OMG please load them for another Billy GS.