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QUOTE (whitesoxjr27 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 08:46 PM) Very true. BTW, nobody has bandwagon fans like the cubs do. KC knows they can get to all three of the Mets' young pitchers. They don't have that mental intimidation thing like with Bumgarner last year. That said, anything can and will happen in baseball. The series really becomes interesting if the Mets can win tmrw and put the pressure back on the Royals. If KC had to use Cueto on the road to get the series back home in an elimination Game 5, that's when you would see true worry/concern/anxiousness. Or being tied 3-3 and relying on Ventura in Game 7. At home though, there'd still be a high degree of confidence.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 08:43 PM) It's so funny because when they win, they brag about what great fans they are. These fans are brutal. Any loss regular season or postseason and they consider the offending players total bums. It's classic inning by inning game by game. They despise Ventura right now and love Cueto. A few days ago they wanted to run Cueto out of town. They were praising Rios the other day; now they want his head on a platter. Basically KC thought it was over at 2-0 forgetting home field means a lot this time of year. This series is going 7 obviously. Lol. That means the series certainly isn't going 7. Rios has been a clutch hitter most of the post-season, you're not going to come through every time obviously. It must seem that way to some KC fans. Ventura wet the bed and they let the Mets off the hook early. Nobody with the Royals forgot how good the Mets are at home. Except for casual fans who only show up to support their teams (like the Braves for 14 years) late in the season.

Now we have a series. The Alex Gordon out at third (even though another run scored)...and then not tying the game with the bases loaded and two outs with Rios up, quickly followed by the Morales brain cramp that should have been a double play ball and a three run lead instead of 9-3, that was all she wrote. If the Mets go down 4-2, then the pressure is really on them not to go down 3-0. Sets up an interesting match-up tmrw with Young's slow stuff...and KC tends to struggle more against lefties and Matz throws hard but not 95-99 typically. Momentum only lasts as long as the next game's starter. Should be fun. Good for the sport of baseball to have some intrigue, especially keeping NYC interested.

QUOTE (Tannerfan @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 04:48 PM) The punting on the season happened when they brought back Ventura Fair point...

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/mlb/kansa...le41870337.html On the PECOTA system and the real player himself...

QUOTE (oldsox @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 03:38 PM) I don't think it's a no-brainer to pick up Alexi's option. Unless sentimentality is part of the deal. Saladino as good at 6% the cost. Spend the money elsewhere. Not sure that will help sell any season tickets...for casual fans, it looks like punting on the season before it even begins.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 01:21 PM) man, those comments. Apparently the girl who was attacked is now a violent criminal who should be charged? So many excuses authority figures asserting their will violently. Just like the girl this summer in her bikini at the swimming pool in Texas apparently...the same groups rallying for Fields must be the same ones posting comments at yahoo.com stories and backing Trump, Carson, Fiorina and Ted Cruz and now protesting MSNBC. The GOP should actually be grateful for "red meat" to drive their fundraising totals for the next couple of months.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 12:24 PM) Your numbers in your rah rah Royals sig are not accurate. How so? 11-4 last year, then 3-2, 4-2, 2-0

Dan Jennings from the Marlins is also available now...less experienced than Robin and can serve as part of three headed GM monster.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 09:35 AM) Kim actually knows both Greg and "Trick" Steverson. She's been a writer around the A's for over a decade. She takes the human angle more so than the scouting angle most of our writers take, but I like having that as part of what we do. It is important. Well, I'm sure he would have an interesting take on Semien, Phegley (and Ravelo) and what they did over there to squeeze more productivity out of them. Was he released from his contract or it simply wasn't renewed? That was quite a long time with one organization.

Moneyball 2: Exploiting the niche of hiring unwanted former A's coaches and accumulating a stockpile of them to make up for the Chad Bradford, Swisher, Durham/fireballin' Adkins and Keith Foulke deals. (Two of those moves eventually contributed to 2005, at least....in the form of Garcia and Cotts).

I'm sure he would sooner be stopped for rolling through multiple stop signs in Lawrence than be caught saying anything positive about the Royals. If anything, KC rolling over the Mets' vaunted young starters just makes the Cubs' offense look even more one-dimensional than previously believed.

QUOTE (whitesoxjr27 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 09:20 AM) The best Western civilization can hope for is that common sense is in a sustained tactical withdrawal, and not in full, frantic retreat. World Series, Game 1: In the fourth, FOX’s broadcast was knocked out by “a rare electronics failure.” OK, such things happen. Soon, after filling time from a studio, FOX presented MLB’s international feed, thus the game reappeared. The network then chose to post the following along the bottom of the screen: “PROGRAM ALERT: We are experiencing technical difficulty. You are watching MLB’s International Feed.” OK, we got it. But then FOX, with Game 1 of the World Series above this message, began to scroll this info, moving it right to left, over and over and over, thus making it as distracting as possible, for the next 16 minutes. Such an annoyance perhaps was inspired by ESPN’s “SportsCenter Is Next!,” “SportsCenter Is Next! … http://nypost.com/2015/10/30/fox-world-ser...ting-senseless/ Coming soon, Harold Reynolds talks too much and Erin Andrews isn't as captivating as she used to be...

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 08:16 AM) They're pretty influential, no doubt about that, but again you're talking one of nine. To be really influential you have to have the backing over others. The president can make unilateral decisions. You can make that argument with the Rehnquist court.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 07:47 AM) When I saw the headline, I thought this would be about Greg's traffic stop thread on SoxTalk. Greg is black and packs a Glock? That might be one of the most memorable threads of 2015.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Oct 29, 2015 -> 10:51 PM) laughed out loud. Thank you He either ways 400 pounds or is skinny and unrecognizable now I bet.

QUOTE (bjm676 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 08:32 AM) I wonder what it would take to pry Lucroy from Milwaukee. I read the Brewers may try and shop him this offseason. Montas, Adams and Hawkins if they were lucky.

QUOTE (bjm676 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 08:32 AM) I wonder what it would take to pry Lucroy from Milwaukee. I read the Brewers may try and shop him this offseason. Montas, Adams and Hawkins if they were lucky.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 08:33 AM) If Doyle Alexander were on the 84 Tigers and helped them win a ring, people would look at that trade differently. Given up Smoltz would not have hurt as much if it led to a title, not to two s***ty performances in the LCS. The Yankees are an interesting case given all the A-Rod drama. Given that it was their only title in 15 years now, I think they still might consider it worth it, I don't know though. For a team like the Royals though, I don't care if Finnegan and Lamb win 5 Cy Youngs, they would make the trade everytime if they win the WS this year. Personally, I would give it to Houston's groundskeeper. Correa doesn't get a slightly bad bounce...there's a dp there and Houston probably survives and advances. That said, if the Royals also won the World Series next year without him, it would also change the frame of reference. And probably the Shields/Davis for Myers/Odorizzi deal still goes down as the most important move of Moore's tenure.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 08:19 AM) Hello. What does that have to do with this discussion? Doyle Alexander lost twice in the playoffs and the '87 Tigers lost in the ALCS. The Royals are close to winning the World Series helped by a couple of gems pitched by Cueto. Those two situations aren't comparable right now. For some reason I thought he was on the 1984 Tigers. Oh well. Sometimes the example is a tad exaggerated. For the Yankees, I'm still not sure the overall ARod deal is worth it just for 2009 when they have so many championships overall.

Greg Sparks is a great guy, with great insight and results. As he is reunited with old pal Todd Steverson, it brings to mind a balancing of the universe (Yin and Yang); blending of opposite strengths; Steverson’s gregarious and Sparks’ lower-keyed personalities. Sure to be a winning combination for the Chicago White Sox Major League team. Between that and working with Chris Carter, we're absolutely set for a new generation of hitters. Or not. Kim Contreras must be related to Nardi or Jose with the Merkin/Rongey editorializing at the end. Results>great guy.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 08:10 AM) Yes, absolutely. You have one person versus hundreds that require a shutdown. And he has the power to tell all of his agencies to stop providing services, stop enforcing laws, stop investigating crimes, stop prosecuting cases, etc. etc. Oh and he commands the entire US defense system. Congress can cut funding, so in an indirect way they can do the same in theory, but it's much harder to do. Most most of the Supreme Court basically has lifetime tenure. The bottom 1/3rd or 25% of presidents don't compare to Earl Warren or Oliver Wendell Holmes in terms of impact. Or the deciding vote on Roe v. Wade or Gore v. Bush.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 07:10 AM) No it doesn't. Flags fly forever. Doyle Alexander/John Smoltz says hello. If Aaron Miles became the grittiest player in the history of baseball, a few would probably give away their World Series with Juan Uribe. Not that it would rational.

Also depends on how Finnegan and the other pieces from that deal turn out, Cody Reed, Lamb, etc.

Austin Hedges?