*****Official Royals @ Cardinals 5/21*****
 

Yay. Another ass beating.

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In. I don’t know why

have you watched us play? We’ve sucked ass for most of the year.

A couple of lucky hits with 2 outs.

Over/under on 1st inning runs allowed by Kennedy?

a ball?

Soler... nice.

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next pitch @105.1 mph was the strikeout.

The Cardinals offense is a cure for what ails any pitcher.

Royals - 14-32 .304%
Cards - 25-19 . 568%

One does not match the other.

Martinez is a spaz in the box. No idea how he can hit a baseball like that.

Oh. So why would you post a ball?

Yup outside of every 8th game where the score 12 then spend the next 7 scoring 2.

Did you see the movement on that thing?

im not BS’ing. Go look st the Cardinals thread. Every poster in there is ticked about our performance this year.

We have looked like ass most of the year except for our starting pitching. Which has been phenomenal.

There’s the Ian AIDS Kennedy we’ve come to know and hate

There's the Kennedy that we're used to seeing.

THAT was ugly.

Even though Kennedy is ass, he's not getting any help from the defense. :facepalm:

Lighten up fellas. Kennedy would be a perennial CY Young candidate if it wasn't for that meanie, Rob Manfred.

Two outs and then bada bing, bada boom

Not for this shit ass gutless pitching staff.

Kennedy is hot garbage lately, as are the other veteran starters. Its pathetic, that between Duffy, Kennedy & Hammel, not one of them can give you a chance to win when they take the mound. I mean, i guess i should be glad that Junis & Skoklund are our two best starters right now, since they are the future. But still, you’d think one of the other 3 could actually give you a quality start each time the rotation.

They should just forfeit the first two games to the Cards and then Junis will get his shot in game 3, since he actually gives the team a chance to win when he pitches.

That’s a rookie who’s only starting because Ozuna has sucked ass for so long the manager was forced to sit him out for a game and O’neil got the spot start.

He’s only hit 3 home runs in 3 games. The guy is built like a bodybuilder. Really different for a baseball player. And he’s Canadian.

The pitchers are useless and offense is just as useless.

Like I said, our pitching staff will make your offense look like a juggernaut.

It was a very impressive ball

No doubt it was a ball but I think you are missing the point.

Anyhow, good luck this season.

I'd leave all 3 of them in St. Louis......

This guy has been paying attention.

7, 2, 12, 6, 5, 5 so far tonight.

It's been an average NL offense this year, but with Carpenter getting straightened out and them getting some production from an outfielder other than Pham, the offense is showing that it can put up a lot of runs. Keep in mind that they've done all of this without DeJong or Molina.

Kennedy has only given up 5 runs in 5 innings = Improvement...

Do you really expect Royals fans to commiserate with you because your team "sucks ass"?

GTFO with that BS.

At least you guys will get the picks from Cain and Hosmer. A lot of teams banking on FA compensation this year (like the Cards w/ Lynn) weren't so fortunate. But yeah, it's looking like a real rough patch is in order. Last I checked, the Royals didn't have a single top 100 prospect.

If you can move Herrera and Moustakas for some starting arms, you can start to build a foundation again.

I'm all in on these guys picking it up but you cant argue they gave gone completely absent for long stretches followed by big games then more shit.

I fully understand its a long season and frankly Memorial day on is where things start to heat up but the strikeouts have been an issue for years and if they dont hit HR the scoring goes away.

The common denominator in your stats you listed is HR. And we both know they come in streaks and when they arent there the runs go away.

I’m being truthful and real. Your being a dick.

Yeah, but that's baseball now. You're going to look long and hard to find a team that doesn't play station to station baseball anymore. Teams have more strikeouts than hits now.

The hell I was. I'm going to be now though.

You don't know what "suck ass" baseball is if you haven't watched the Royals this year. Typical Cards fan bullshit. Take that to the Cards thread, it don't play here.

****in cards fans are a bunch of spoiled bitches. I hope they get decades of losing. It'd be awesome to see how many people fall off the bandwagon

You don't know what "suck ass" baseball is....

Carpenter was the worst regular starter in all of baseball last week. O’neil wasn’t even in the majors last week. Mikolas was pitching in Japan last year. We were desperate because other than our starting pitching, we sucked ass. :harumph:

l have for many seasons. The Cardinals were really bad in the 70’s. I’ve never talked trash with Royals fans. 15 years of history. Dont trash the fans in any way. Seemed to me you guys are upset with your teams performance. I’m not the issue here.

Wow. A whole week? That’s rough.

Alex Gordon and Alcides Escobar were the worst 2 regular starters in all of baseball last YEAR.

You guys have NO idea what it is like to suck. Your team, even with a complete dumb **** as a manager, is competing for a playoff spot every single year. You guys dont have a clue.

So please quit trying to sell your sob story to Royals fans . . . . .

I think you underestimate the ability of the KC pitchers to suck.

“Hold my beer” - Kennedy/Duffy/Hammel

Cardinals in the 70's
1970 76-86
1971 90-72
1972 75-81
1973 81-81
1974 86-75
1975 82-80
1976 72-90
1977 83-79
1978 69-93
1979 86-76
81 loss average.
Royals in the 2000's.
2000 77-85
2001 65-97
2002 62-100
2003 83-79
2004 58-104
2005 56-106
2006 62-100
2007 69-93
2008 75-87
2009 65-97
95 loss avg.
You don't know squat about watching shitty baseball.

No what he means is until Carp has gotten hot in the last week. He and Fowler were no 170 and 171 in hitting out of 171 players with enough eligible at bats.

He has hit .500 for about 7 days now and his average has jumped .50 points to get him to .200.

And come on man we are all Chiefs fans, we know what it means to suck. :D

Well, that wasn't much fun to watch for us Royals fans. Yeah, I knew they would be not very good however I wasn't quite ready for this level of bad. For a Cardinals fan to compare relative team suckitude is rather funny; how many World Series have the Cardinals been to? I know the Royals have been to 4 and went 28 years without sniffing the playoffs.

I love how this thread became pretty nasty on the topic of "do both team suck?" and "we suck worse!" Gotta love this rivalry or non-rivalry, depending on who you ask.

To go from the most annoying fan base in baseball (NYY) to the 2nd most annoying fan base in baseball (Tard Nation) in just a couple of days is exhausting.

THIS ISN'T A RIVALRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~Card T-Shirt Fans

The Cardinals have overachieved so far and have like a .300 higher winning percentage than KCs scrub filled team. They aren't terrible, just pretty average. Such a weird fan base this is

How many games will the ROYALS lose this season? I'm guessing over a hundred. 49 wins - 113 losses

That would be a dream come true. To reach the championship promised land and then the rebuild promised land in a span of three short years should be every small market fans' dream.

The franchise is just an older one. We have waited in between WS appearances but not like the Royals in the same time frame that both teams have existed.

1934-1942 8 years
1946-1964 18 years
1968-1982 16 years
1987-2006 19 years
2011-2018 7 years and counting


I agree that the Royals fans suffered through some really bad baseball after 1985 and before the elation of 2014/2015.


So I concede, you team sucks more.

Not really a rivalry. Cubs are the Cards rival, not the Royals.

I don't know that the Royals really have a rivalry with anyone? At one time, back in the 70's and 80's, it was the Yankees. Now? meh. Maybe the White Sox if you HAD to pick someone, but not really. I couldn't even tell you half the players on their roster and they're in our division.

Oh, and for the record, we suck worse.

I'd say we're a secondary rival - lacking much of the nastiness and history of the Cubs-Cards rivalry.

I say this from the response my trolling of Denkinger would get on Cards forums in the days of yore. The Royals would be in the midst of a 90 loss season and 85 still riled up some emotion.

I will say had we met in the World Series in 2014, I think that would have cemented our franchises in a legit rivalry - that would have been a fun one, too (BTW **** Madison Bumgarner lik dis if u cry evrytiem).

You made a World Series in 2013.

We don't count that one.:harumph:

Ha!


At least we win at something this year . . . . . :sulk:

Tonight Ned ought to go out and squeeze a deuce on home plate during the lineup exchange and just get it over with.

He might as well since Hammel is starting.

It isn't.

Yeah, the Cardinals have had some periods of spotty, mediocre baseball to be sure.

But I don't think there's a franchise in baseball HISTORY that can hang with the Royals over that 15 year span starting around 1999. Worse still, while we don't know exactly what the future holds, but we can all pretty safely state that the next 3 years are going to provide a lot of shitty baseball in KC. Their high minors are just barren. So from about 1997 through 2021 they're going to have a 25 year stretch where they'll average 90 losses in all likelihood. Or get damn close.

Worse still, they'll have a 5 year period in there of damn good ball. Which means that for the other 20 years they'll probably average near 95 losses.

Don't try to get in a suck-contest with the Royals. Nobody sucks like they sucked. Even when the Cardinals are 'bad' their problem isn't that they're bad, it's that they're boring and mediocre. The last 2 years have been case studies in winning half your games while not being even the slightest bit entertaining to watch. That's not bad - that's bland. I'd say the 2012 and 2016 Royals were worse than the 16 and 17 Cardinals but played a far more entertaining brand of baseball.

The Cardinals haven't sucked; they've just been pretty forgettable of late. That's still more than enough to beat bad teams. Over the course of their 6 games, the Cardinals should be pissed if they don't win 4 and frankly they should be a little disappointed if they don't win 5. Wednesday should be the only game where they give the Royals even the slightest inkling of life and even then they should come out on top. That's a bad baseball team.

It is in Mid-Missouri and the Ozarks.

You know since the Royals became a franchise in 1969 it's 3 World Series titles for the Cardinals and 2 for the Royals.

Lulz