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What I'm asking if he maxed himself out so quickly, is that something that will improve in time as he learns to pitch in the bigs?

When Richard was doing well, wasn't his fastball popping? What's happened to his arm strength? Does that develop as you get used to being a big league pitcher?

So much for "expecting" to win Game 3 of the series. That was kind of a blah loss. I didn't see it, but the KC announcers in the first fpur innings, which is all I listened to, made it sound as if Floyd didn't have the control today. I couldn't believe yesterday DJ and Farmer said Thornton was an all-star, lock to make the team. I mean I like Thornton, but no way will he be on the all star team.

The Cubs are gonna win that weak division; we may win our division. It's a repeat of last year with a glimmer of hope we meet them in the WS. I'd love to see it happen in a lifetime.

I watched much of the Twins-Tigers tonight on MLB. We need to go into the dome and play better baseball this year. The Twins are good, yes, but not good enough where they beat us all but 2 games there this year. The Tigers jumped on them, blew the lead, then won it in 17 or so. The crowd was big, but dead and there's a big sign out there in leftfield saying "Countdown to Outdoor Baseball." They hate playing in there so they should not give us the usual beatdown in there this year.

I don't think you can expect a sweep against anybody on the road. We are hot and they are not. I hope we can keep it that way. Bannister has been decent of late and Hochevar has been good at times as well. We need to play.

You guys are a tough crowd. All that matters are results. He needs to get ahead of the hitters in the future or he'll be ultimately f***ed, but he also did the job tonight. Olivo doesn't take walks; he has hit 11 or 12 bombs. He's a free swinger.

Man, they packed the stadium and couldn't do s*** against Johnny and Liney. Great win. Danks does it the night after Mark. Two lefties in a row handcuff the Royals. Let's take 3 of 4 or all 4.

That's kind of a dumb statement IMO. Give Liney credit as much as Olivo f***ing up.

Liney doesn't believe in working ahead of hitters. Or he's rusty.

This is hard to believe. DP? Wow.

Hope Bobby gets up. It's only 5-0

Yes, but they had Aviles, who is out for year and Gordon who had hip surgery. Also Soria was out a long time when all the losing started. ALso Crisp is out for the year and John Buck got hurt as well and is out.

Royals had one good month where everybody got excited. Now they are wondering if the team will keep losing at this alarming rate the final 12 weeks.

That's a big DP. Full stadiums are rare, here and they wanted something to go nuts about. They are ALL staying for the fireworks show. Nice job Liney and the D.

You were joking, right?

C'mon Danksie. Only 99 pitches so far.

Time to minimize the damage.

Dropped the ball?

It's French's debut.

Slowey's down, 6-0. Tigers abusing him.

Why go on the first pitch? Weird.

Well I am a dumbass. The game is blacked out here on MLB.com even though it's a sell out and I'm 45 miles away. WTF?

Folks, there is some s***ty weather moving in as I look out the window. Hopefully it'll stay North and not head to the New K. I finally sucked it up and bought MLB TV for a month. My puter isn't great. Any way I can make the action not freeze for a crucial 2 seconds, then unfreeze? -- Did you hear the end of Oz's interview just now on the pregame show when they asked him how 7 in a row sounded? Oz started to squeal. His enthusiasm is so cool.

I know why Oz is going to send BA down (he loves Wise's speed) but I wish he'd send Wise down and keep BA for his defense at least. We don't need another lefty outfield bat as long as Pods is healthy. Sending BA down would be dumb. Trade him rather than send him down. Or why not just send down Gobble?