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Same. .500 is gonna be rough unless they spend WAY more money than they ever would.

Their podcast from the other night is even MORE meatball than the one with Pods and Ozzie. I couldn't get through it.

My stage of copium right now is to hope that Getz was so vague and seemingly unprepared because he didn't want to tip off all of the people he's going to can or speak ill of them in public to prevent their finding roles in other orgs. He's then going to absolutely clean house in the offseason and find good people to surround himself with. He'll also drop players who suck or don't fit with what they're trying to do, while also making some smart trades and free agent signings to get this team back to around .500 to "compete" while he continues to rebuild their scouting, analytics and player development. Of course, what will probably happen is they'll sign a bunch of former Royals players and staff and bring Dayton Moore in to "help" Getz. They'll be mediocre at best next year and until Getz gets fired or Jerry dies. There's still a whole offseason to go, though, so I'll hold onto my vain hope while I watch other teams play good baseball and only catch White Sox highlights.

Lynn got hammered by Atlanta tonight

Without Ohtani I don't know what's out there. They basically need an entire starting rotation and half a bullpen, and RF and 2B are still unknowns. Colas has a way to go and Sosa as well.

One of Reinsdorf's favorite players semi-recently? David Eckstein. Expect more players like him.

I would like to be charitable and assume we're going to clean up how poorly this team plays and rarely unlocks all their talent, but it was probably all meaningless platitudes that Jerry likes hearing.

Caught up a little - I would be EMBARRASSED to talk to clients or my company's board like Getz spoke to reporters. No preparation. You need to strategize on what people will likely ask you and be ready for that. It's not like any of these questions were out of left field so far - this is stuff that's been all over the internet.

Its NOT good he felt like McConnell. That's Jerry saying he has no idea what he's doing.

Sounds like this is even more of a disaster than I thought it would be.

Good for them. Can't wait to see Gio regain 4 mph on his fastball and improve his command.

We're absolutely getting The Royals Way™. I can't wait for the s%*# show press conference. I wonder if someone is gonna get shot at it because someone smuggled a gun in between their butt cheeks.

OK well they won. Good recovery by Santos.

Super interested to hear Getz's philosophy and how he's going to run the org. If it's all Royals retread based and "culture" and "'14/'15 Royals" as I expect I'm gonna laugh my ass off.

Sosa has been better lately but his swing is SO LONG

I think they can fix the GB rate (well, SOMEONE can... who knows if these bozos can), so I'm cautiously optimistic with him.

Yeah I noticed that too. Awkward swings on the outer third against lefties - even if he makes contact it'd be a soft grounder or popup somewhere.

Colas with no chance there. He needs to figure out how to be effective against tougher lefties.

It'd be nice if the Sox showed up for more than once every three games. It's a bonus if the opposing starter throws 90 over the center of the plate all the time as well.

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Without that miserable first inning Cease wasn't bad today. Hopefully something clicked from the second inning on.

Robert says "don't forget about me!" Feel bad for Gibson, getting slammed by this team.

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