***The Royals 2014 World Series Repository***
 

What a season, what a team... what a relief!

http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/u...9b8a6527d.jpeg

In! Go Royals!

Why is the 2015 off-season being posted while the 2014 season is still going?

And why is it merged with the 2014 post season?

This thread doesn't make sense, is bad mojo and is just a bad idea all around and it should be tossed in an ebola fire.

The 2014 Repository got too big, Austin was going to shut it down. No big deal.

Bad Karma. Full of Jinx ebola:doh!:

You couldn't wait one damn week?

yeah the off-season can **** off for the moment :mad:

I officially approve this thread and the good karma it brings and it's ability to change our luck from last night's disaster.

I WANT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THINGS

No shit. Lose Game 1 of WS, start off-season thread. WTF?

And I really don't get the merger of a post-season with an off-season.

No. I couldn't. The past thread was well well well past the limit. I only left it alone because you don't screw with anything when you are undefeated...

I have never, ever said this before. Ever. Never ever:

PB is right.

Nope, you are BOTH wrong.

Take this shit to DC.

yeah but this thread title should not mention anything about the postseason at this point. We really give a damn who we are targeting with our 30th overall draft pick at this point? :(

Because, chances are, this thread will exist longer than eight days

and because get fukt, that's why

So start part two of that thread.

An off-season thread DURING THE WORLD SERIES.

DECISIONS LIKE THIS IS WHY THE CHIEFS SUCK.

No, the thread title is perfect.

This thread is for NOW, the postseason, but since we are 4 games away from winning the World Series, it won't be a very big thread so why not be proactive and let this be the offseason repository as well.

Archie F Swim has both logic and karma on his side. Now can everyone quit bitching.

Bruiser should have started the thread.

We don't need any offseason talk in the title.. Let's win this shit.

That's a dumb reason.

Mods--ban for dumb thread starting and filter evasion.

You and Archie are the James Shields of logic and of thread starting.

Now that's just mean.

It's not the title that brings bad karma. It's all the little girls whining.

Fine! Ill get you back by boycotting the thread. Or maybe by posting in it. Which makes ya madder?

thread titles can be edited later and stuff :mad: :mad:

Ok, so to get things back on track.

Two biggest problems I had with last nights game..

#1 we obviously started pressing early and stopped playing small ball. Escobar's at bat was a prime example of this.

#2 What the **** was up with the strike zone? I honestly think the ****ed up strikezone had a much bigger effect on us than people realize.

THIS.

But the thread title is what brought the whining...so...

Boycotting, yeah definitely boycotting. You'll really piss me off if you boycott.... :D

I'd just like to point out that this is the 4TH Repository thread this season.

Yes, the 4th!

Pretty damn cool.

Those Royals turned out pretty good, huh?

WTF

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-...clash-of-clans

Yes, but half of the third one was people complaining about not being able to buy playoff tickets.

#winnerproblems

Olbermann defends Marlin douche behind first plate
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/IE9IDtiyc5w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Olbermann is right! The dude is famous now, smart guy. He's probably gonna somehow turn this into a profit. Hilarious. Still ****ING annoying as a Royals fan LMAO

Repository threads sucks.

yous guys are hurting my feelings
:sulk: :crybaby:

I guess the irony here is that in this age of the limited, please-don't-break-CP-mega-thread, every post bemoaning the repository thread brings us one post nearer to YET ANOTHER REPOSITORY THREAD.


:)

$43 ticket on stubhub! has to be a mistkae!

http://www.stubhub.com/kansas-city-r...-2014-9131196/

I posted in the game thread about how you appoach an AB against Bumgarner. You have to be patient above all. Be willing to take a possible strike out. He will throw that fastball up and outside the strike zone. Then thrown that cutter or off speed stuff down and in. You have to, must lay off those pitches to have any chance of success against the guy. These are the pitches that took down Escobar etc

When you lay off those pitches he has an average very flat fastball that he will leave over the middle of the plate. Those are the pitches that Hosmer and Billay hammered.

I know easier said than done. We didn't do it worth a shit the 1st game. Did it correctly in the 2nd game and got him for 3 runs. Then within the same damn game we stopped being patient and he mowed us down again. He's tough but not unbeatable.

Your lineup should have no problem with Peavy and Hudson. I still like you guys to win this series.

Greg Holland just won AL reliever of the year.

head cyborg is still cyborg

http://www.mlbprospectguide.com/p/20...prospects.html

thoughts?

http://www.spotrac.com/free-agents/mlb/

targets?

Holy shit Orioles are salty. Just saw this retweeted on my TL from yesterday <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Welcome back to earth boys.</p>&mdash; Caleb Joseph (@McGrattan17) <a href="https://twitter.com/McGrattan17/status/524767449603133441">October 22, 2014</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

only bad thing about these games? I can't get any focking sleep after they are over.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/dCBBIU4V5qk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Guy has a bunch of other plays from this post season on his account.

Can someone respond "It appears that it was a short visit"?

Done.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>C Salvy Perez, 1B Eric Hosmer, SS Alicides Escobar, LF Alex Gordon are Royals&#39; Gold Glove finalists. Lorenzo Cain not a finalist in CF</p>&mdash; Pete Grathoff (@pgrathoff) <a href="https://twitter.com/pgrathoff/status/525338890602037250">October 23, 2014</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

uhh....

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Boston&#39;s Jackie Bradley Jr., Chicago&#39;s Adam Eaton, Baltimore&#39;s Adam Jones are your AL Gold Glove finalists in CF.</p>&mdash; Pete Grathoff (@pgrathoff) <a href="https://twitter.com/pgrathoff/status/525340450295910400">October 23, 2014</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Hey Al, how was YOUR day yesterday? Happy for all the CP'ers who enjoyed it!!!

Get out your tissues.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/sto...ream/17758833/

AL CF GG Finalists were:

Jackie Bradley Jr. (Boston Red Sox)
Adam Eaton (Chicago White Sox)
Adam Jones (Baltimore Orioles)

The only way this makes sense is if you take everything Cain did in RF, throw that away as if he never played, and focus only on his CF stats. If you do that, its close between him and the first two, but no way should Adam Jones be over Cain.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Lorenzo Cain was not nominated for a Gold Glove. Perhaps these awards should not be taken seriously.</p>&mdash; Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) <a href="https://twitter.com/McCulloughStar/status/525344764787691520">October 23, 2014</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

or Adam Eaton. Jackie Bradley is a very good CF and should win easily among that group.

DAMN YOU!! :crybaby:

Isn't GG strictly a player-vote thing?

That he often gets moved to RF during the game might hurt him.

According to Wikipedia:

--as voted by the managers and coaches in each league.[1] Managers are not permitted to vote for their own players.[1] Additionally, a sabermetric component provided by Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) accounts for approximately 25 percent of the vote

At least Orioles fans have something to care about again.

That's a joke on so many levels, it isn't funny.

Adam Eaton? Come on. He's a nice defensive player, but he's not ELITE ELITE.

That's what I was afraid of. That him playing RF late in games would hurt him.
Posted via Mobile Device

How long had Rany been going interviews on 810? He's been on for about 30 minutes and this is probably the best baseball interview I've ever heard. I usually never listen to 810.
Posted via Mobile Device

By defensive runs saved, Lorenzo Cain was baseball's fifth-best RIGHT fielder despite playing, basically, one-third of the season there.

Every week with Soren during the season for years.

He had his own show on 810 as well, Rany on the Radio.

So Miguel cabrera is a finalist but not Lorenzo Cain hmm

Lorenzo Cain was second among AL CFs in @sabr SDI which is 25% of the selection process for #RawlingsGoldGlove. Managers other 75%

He is pretty good. To me, he really stands out because most guys if they are good at all, are good for a few minutes before they are yammering on about nothing. Someone posted a link to his blog on here awhile back and I was impressed with that too.

This is probably not a surprise, but Shields will start game 5. I think we can also safely assume that Ventura would start game 6 if necessary.

I'd prefer to start Duffy over Shields.

He's hurt and can't give us 2 innings most likely.

Depending on games 3 and 4 shake out I wouldn't be opposed to having the pen pitch game 5 though. Some combo of Duffy, Finnegan, Herrera, Davis, Frasor, and Holland.

Knowing Ned though he'll probably go with Shields and let him give up 3 before pulling him which might be too much to recover from.

Good interview with Ibanez last night. CRAPPY research from MLB Network!!! Look at the first graphic they pull up at :33 .....REALLY?!!
<iframe src='http://m.mlb.com/shared/video/embed/embed.html?content_id=36849291&topic_id=7417714&width=400&height=224&property=mlb' width='400' height='224' frameborder='0'>Your browser does not support iframes.</iframe>

You should listen to it more, its way better than 610.

Maddon opted out of his deal. See ya, Ned. http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/11...e-leaving-team

ROFL

Al Davis & George Steinbrenner were great villains for us KC sports fans. But people may not know Davis visited Derrick Thomas in the hospital after his accident and the NY Post just ran this nice article about The Boss:


The Boss’ last, secret kindness to George Brett’s dad in Brooklyn
By George A. King IIIOctober 20, 2014 | 9:49am
Modal Trigger

http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com...0&h=480&crop=1

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man who tormented George Steinbrenner’s team had a father who visited his native Brooklyn late in life to take a final look at New York, where he was raised, educated, worked and fathered three sons.
The year was 1992, and while the Royals-Yankees rivalry was nowhere near as hot as it was in the ’80s, there was no way The Boss or anybody associated with the Yankees would ever forget how George Brett punished the Yankees.

Brett, a career .307 hitter with 29 homers and 117 RBIs in 203 games against the Yankees, was a year away from retiring and waiting five more to enter Cooperstown on the first ballot.

Arthur Richman, who worked for Steinbrenner and was close with the greatest player in Royals history, told The Boss that Jack Brett was coming to see New York for the final time.

“Two weeks before he passed away, he went back to New York to see the old sights,’’ George Brett said of Jack, who attended Pace University, during the Royals’ amazing run to the World Series that starts Tuesday night with Game 1 at Kauffman Stadium against the Giants. “My brother Ken was there and Arthur must have said something to George because the whole time he was in New York, a Town Car was at his disposal, thanks to George.’’



Goose Gossage and Willie Randolph, a Brooklyn native, never heard of the Brett family’s connection to Brooklyn. But Steinbrenner lending a hand to Jack Brett didn’t surprise Gossage.

“George [Steinbrenner] had tremendous respect for gamers, and George [Brett] was a gamer,’’ Gossage said of the left-handed hitter who took Gossage into the upper deck of Yankee Stadium to finish the Yankees in the third game of the 1980 ALCS, won by the Royals, 3-0, and homered off him in the infamous “Pine Tar Game’’ in 1983 at the Stadium.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash">#Royals</a> are braced for likelihood Kyle Zimmer will need shoulder surgery. He's scheduled to visit Dr. David Altchek.</p>&mdash; Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) <a href="https://twitter.com/jcrasnick/status/526744650535960578">October 27, 2014</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


Salt in the wound. Can't say this is surprising though.