Ya why do you need a new one? This one is fine.

I vote no. I'll deal with the occasional "slowness" of the thread.

Wade Davis is the starter version of Jonathan Broxton though. Every time he takes the mound my heart is in my throat.

No on new thread. Let's not do anything that might change the mojo

If the Royals win every series for the rest of August and 2 games of every series in September, that will put us in the neighborhood of 90 wins to finish the season. If we lose more than 20 games from this point forward, it will be hard to maintain a position to contend.

Unless the Royals suffer an injury they can't overcome, September is shaping up to be the most exciting single month for Kansas City baseball fans in nearly three decades.

Heading out to the K tonight. Really looking forward to Chen vs Fernandez

Was just looking at his last 10 games...he's been pretty nasty. Duncan, do you have a quick & dirty scouting report about him? How many pitches does he work with and how hard does he throw?

Terrible idea!

Baseball town had 15k last night at the game. I was able to move around wherever I wanted, let my legs extend over the empty seats ahead of me. Felt relaxing. Nice baseball town, clearly excited about the brand of ball being played now. I'm sure last night will convince Glass to spend tens of millions on payroll next year!

I think I remember a post before stating V bulletin having trouble with threads over 10,000 posts

Shut up.

Monday night game vs. one of the worst teams in the MLB.

Don't start a new thread...you are just asking to screw things up.

Start new threads during losing streaks...not winning streaks.

Wake up people.

Back on ignore for me. Brief reprise. But the constant need to find something to be irrationally pissed about is just played out.

i was shocked when i suddenly saw his name again then i remember i mass emptied my iggy list the other day. Always a mistake because certain people end up going right back on. He is one.

I was at the game Saturday, this town is excited about this team. Had to be over 35K in attendance. Can't even go to the store without the cashier talking about the Royals. What an idiot.
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From Pine Tar Press:

So this is one of those games where the two pitchers could not be any different from each other. Fernandez is a big, right-handed flame thrower. Bruce Chen is a lefty and his fastball averages about 85 MPH. Fernandez is 21. Bruce Chen is definitely not. This one should be interesting.

Three things to watch for against Fernandez:

Like Koehler, Fernandez relies mostly on a fastball and a curve, but unlike Koehler, both pitches are big time plus pitches. The fastball averages nearly 96 MPH and the curve can get big and sits in about the low 80s.
Fernandez gets a lot of swings and misses to make up for this, but he’s been hit hard at times and has been a bit fortunate in terms of balls in play. He’s certainly a very tough pitcher, but a team like the Royals could actually be a bad matchup for him because they do a pretty decent job on fastballs and the pitch they struggle with the most isn’t really featured by Fernandez.
No pitch he throws results in much trouble for him, but he’s gotten hit the hardest on his sinker, so we’ll see if the shorter grass at Kauffman Stadium gives him any trouble in that regard.