A Bright Spot For The Royals

The Kansas City Royals have a record of 64-94. They did what the Royals do: start off strong and give Royals fans a glimmer of hope that this could be the break out year, fall apart in the middle of the summer and crush all Royals fans hope that anything will ever change and, finally, make a nice run in September to get people to think that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that light will get brighter beginning with next years spring training.

The Royals dream about having a conversation with the words 'Kansas City' and 'magic number' in the same sentence. Once again, this is not that year. The Royals are fighting with the Cleveland Indians to avoid being at the bottom of the AL Central Division (right now the Royals are barely losing that battle).

But, there is a shining spot on this team.

His name is Zach Greinke. He will be your 2009 AL Cy Young award winner. He has a record of 16-8 and if he was on a different team with better hitters, he would have well over 20 wins this season. But the Cy Young voters are not stupid. They see that Zach is the most dominant pitcher in baseball. He makes great hitters look stupid. He breezes pitches by hitters and he buckles knees with a killer curve ball.

Dear Dayton Moore,

To quote KGB with his Russian accent in the movie 'Rounders' - 'Pay him. Pay that man his money.' Give him what ever he wants. Kansas City has a great player and in the past the Royals have traded that great player for prospects. I'm sick of watching the World Series and seeing different players and saying, 'Remember when he used to play in Kansas City? Yeah, that was great.' Pay him what he wants and build a team around your dominant ace pitcher.

So, Royals fans, be proud of the one shining spot on this years team and cross your fingers that he will be a sign of what is to come for the Royals.

ROYALS COME BACK!!!

I was flipping back and forth between the NBA game and the Kansas City Royals game against the Cleveland Indians last night, but for a lot of it I was watching basketball, because the Royals weren't doing to good. They were down 5-2 late in the game and it didn't look very good.

For a Tuesday night game, there were a lot of people in the stands, but it was very quiet. The whole stadium seemed to realize that they were going to lose the game, but then came the bottom of the 9th!!!

The rally started with BACK 2 BACK home runs by Mike Jacobs and Mark Teahen followed by a Miguel Olivo and then a HUGE RBI triple to by David DeJesus to tie the game! Then, came the game winning sac fly by Willie Bloomquist to score David DeJesus! I was jumping around the room while my wife was laughing at me! What a game! GO ROYALS!!!

Tonight is game two of the series with Cleveland at Kauffman Stadium. Game time is 7:10 and can be heard on the Mighty Big Sports 590 with the pre game show beginning at 6:35!

The Kansas City Royals Big Loss

After winning 6 games in a row the Kansas City Royals have lost their last 4 including be swept by the LA Angels (I refuse to write the whole name of this team) and losing a game to the Oakland A's by a score of 12-3 and have all 12 of those runs be put up before the 5th inning.

This is when we will find out if these Royals are the new and improved Royals or if they're the Royals of old. If they can turn the corner and get out of this rut and get back on track (and every other cliche about making an improvement) then I will say that we have a special team playing at the 'New K'. If they maintain course and downslide to the bottom of the basement then we have just another Royals team and we can start saying 'I'll give them a couple of years. They're still young. They'll improve with more experience at this level.'

But until that happens, realize that they're still 3 games above .500 and they're still tied for 1st place in the AL Central. So, sit back, relax, grab a beer and scorecard and enjoy the ride!

The Royals next game is today at Oakland at 9:07 CT. The game can be heard on the Mighty Big Sports 590 with the pregame show beginning at 8:30.