*****Official Royals vs Blues Jays GDT - April 22*****
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Brady Singer heads to the mound tonight to open the four-game series against the Blue Jays. <a href="https://t.co/uJ2RkbQeoM">pic.twitter.com/uJ2RkbQeoM</a></p>&mdash; Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals/status/1782482028635586905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="tl" dir="ltr">Hello, KC 👋 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TOTHECORE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TOTHECORE</a> <a href="https://t.co/e7DdHgl0jQ">pic.twitter.com/e7DdHgl0jQ</a></p>&mdash; Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) <a href="https://twitter.com/BlueJays/status/1782511066213171450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

And a live look in during the 2015 ALCS for a disappearing poster
https://www.chuckecheese.com/wp-cont...yCakeImage.jpg

Yu Cy will put a firm end to your short lived hope of relevant baseball.

Are fans allowed to go to baseball games yet in Canada?

Figured they were still masked up and locked down at the order or Dear Fuhrer.

Let's go royals

Hmmmm... got a link to work, but it's the Blue Jays broadcast. Anyone got KC's?

You don't even know who Landon Maroudis is. You're a fake Blue Jays fan and a fake baseball fan. Stick to basketball, chump.

Hits and Runs boys. Hits and runs.

Man.... that is one light hitting outfield tonight. Yikes.

Same here.

One of their announcers sounds like Adam Sandler of the "Little Nicky" variety.

Buck Martinez?

Their play-by-play guy Dan Shulman is one of the best in the biz.

TINSTAPP

Keep staring mustache queer

Back to the bench little bluegay

Well, I might have exaggerated a bit, but he definitely has an accent.

Great catch by Hampson.

They have more links up now.

I'm giving this one a shot:

https://flostreams.xyz/games/toronto...y-royals-home/

Oh wow, big delay on this one, but it does work. Thank you!

Cool

Well shit.

3 runs for toronto

Yeah, that would've been another highlight reel catch by Hampson. Welcome, Rs announcers anyway.

Kikuchi is dealing. 3 runs might be all he needs.

An injury to Yu Cy was probably the only chance the Royals had of winning this game.

Cool. We get it. Thanks for stopping by.

I don't think it will fully set in for a few more innings.

Garcia just needed a Japanese slump buster

There you go Garcia.

Really needed more than 2 there.

This team is coming back to earth

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just walked to RF at Kauffman where this Royals fan just caught Daulton Varsho’s 6th HR of the season. A telegram has been sent to his wives to let them know the exciting news. <a href="https://t.co/jE5Gpdghhw">pic.twitter.com/jE5Gpdghhw</a></p>&mdash; spencer�� (@spen______) <a href="https://twitter.com/spen______/status/1782575245833933170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Witt struggling at the plate the last week. Ave. dropping fast.

That was dumb

Can we please stop with the contact play bullshit? Quit running into outs.

I agree, he never had a chance.

Or at least situationally.

We really needed base runners there and couldn’t give up an easy out like that.

Lfg already

****ing gross

How long did it take to fully set in that this itineration of the Blue Jays that have averaged 90 wins a season the last 3 years will never win a single playoff series?

The Jays being a joke doesn't preclude the fact that the Royals are an embarrassment.

No, the last few years have been an embarrassment. Not this one.

Embarrassing would be having an elite talent of core young players and never winning anything with them.

Don’t you think so?

The embarrassment has a 2 WS appearances and 1 WS win in the last decade, while the joke hasn't even been to one in 30+ years.

I don't want to strongly dispute which team has been a joke and which team has been an embarrassment, but hasn't it been like a decade since the Royals even won 80 games in the worst division in baseball?

We should just play the White Sox every night

Turns out that inflates a team's record. Lucky for you is you get to play them 13 times.

Likely won’t be enough though

I mean, if regular season success is your thing, sure.

Me, I prefer rings, flags and trophies.

Am happy to say I got to see my team do that in the last decade as opposed to ‘well, yeah, we haven’t won anything but we had some nice regular seasons’

You keep enjoying all that regular season success. Seems to be enough for you. :shrug:

I don't know, the other 3 Central teams aren't much better than the Royals. Could be one of those years that 80ish wins gets the division as strong as the East and West are.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="qme" dir="ltr"> <a href="https://t.co/oA8PlWfVuY">pic.twitter.com/oA8PlWfVuY</a></p>&mdash; spencer�� (@spen______) <a href="https://twitter.com/spen______/status/1782591719868936691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Rough game for the home team. Maybe you'll do better against the Cy Young finalist Gausman tomorrow (I doubt it).

West is strong? LOL

A division with the Athletics and Angels is strong?

Well considering 3 of the teams in it could win 90+ games, yeah, I'm thinking I'll take that over the sewer trash that is the AL Central.

Congrats?

You want me to go ahead and tell you how this story ends? Save the suspense and build up??

Oh, I know how it ends. With the Royals winning 70-75ish games and the Jays losing in the playoffs after their front office directs their manager to pull one of their dominating SPs after 3 innings. Should be quite the trip until then.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yusei Kikuchi tonight in KC:<br><br>— 6.0 IP<br>— 5 H<br>— 2 R (2 ER)<br>— 0 BB, 4 SO<br>— 81 Pitches (58 Strikes)<br><br>YuCy Young 🇯🇵 <a href="https://t.co/ipEfFMNBAc">pic.twitter.com/ipEfFMNBAc</a></p>&mdash; BlueJays Muse (@BlueJays_Muse) <a href="https://twitter.com/BlueJays_Muse/status/1782582433541447858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

And so he did.

The Astros would have to go 83-56 the rest of the way to win 90. I know seven straight ALCS, but there's reason to believe their window is closing. Jeff Ludnow is four years gone and Dana Brown doesn't have much of a farm system and is spending $100 million on relief pitchers.

The Rangers won't have their real rotation until mid-to-late summer.

The Mariners aren't that much different from the sewer trash Twins and Guardians on paper. Flawed team with a promising young pitching staff and not much offense outside of Julio Rodriguez.

Regular season champs?

Good job.

So you're simultaneously trashing the Royals, yet you're oh so proud the big bad Blue Jays won? You can't have it both ways. But hey, stay classy.

Sure I can. I am.

I hope you're right about the Astros because that would be one less team the Jays have to contend with for a WC spot, but I'm skeptical of writing off a team with that kind of talent/track record.

Regardless, I still think all 3 of them are beating up on the Central all year though (as all the East teams will too).

I just don't get people like you. You're a Jays fan who would rather shit on the other team's board then celebrate on your own board with your own fans. That's some sad shit.

I'm not writing off the Astros, but they have dug themselves a little hole and their core is pretty much still Jeff Luhnow acquired players. The well is drying up.

You think Jays fans are celebrating about this Jays team right now? You have the wrong impression.

We don't know what Canadians celebrate.

Canadians are ****ing lame.

https://www.fangraphs.com/standings/playoff-odds

FGs still has them with the best WP% the rest of the way in the AL fwiw. It's a really shitty start, but a long way to go.

Hockey is usually the answer.