Bye-Bye Ram-Ram...Hey Hey to Coco!

Well, folks (all 0 of you), he's gone...And in his place we have a starting centerfielder. Not much for OBP, but he is a starting center fielder and Joey Gathright doesn't have to start! So, this deal just might be looking really good especially when Ram Ram has a down year over in Boston. True, the Red Sox got rid of some payroll (appx $5.25 million for Crisp and they traded for $300,000 Ramon Ramirez), but they picked up a guy who just 2 seasons ago had a 17 inning/16 ER season that ended with a 8.31 ERA...Well, lets just say that last year was a fluke year for him and he probably won't have the 2.64 ERA that he had last year again.

Good news is Teahen might be going elsewhere and Gathright could be as well. Now, I think we should get rid of both of them because Mitch Maier could handle backup duty when Guillen goes out (because we all know that he will). But second base needs to be filled. Callaspo could do it, Jason Smith can't, but we have 2 players and a burger at 5 Guys Burgers and Fries that just could pull in a 2nd baseman...Who knows?

So, give me all zero of your comments on what you think about this trade and we'll see what happens next March...

New Kids in Town...

Alright, so let's just say to the above, that there are none...unless you count the assistant to General Manager Dayton Moore. (lovingly referred to as the GMDM from now on...) So the Phillies leftover assistant general manager (that's a huge-ly long title...), Mike Arbuckle, has now joined the Royals as the "senior adviser to general manager Dayton Moore for scouting and player development", says one of the greatest article writers in the sports world, Bob Dutton from the Kansas City Star.*

* You might be asking yourself right now what in the world this little asterisk is...well, I'm here to tell you I'm not original and I didn't think of this myself. (Credit here goes to Joe Posnanski) Anyway, the asterisk is a wonderful tool to let you know that the writer of an article wants to input a comment of his own that usually has little to do with the post...Moving on to the point of this asterisk...Joe Posnanski and Sam Mellinger are also part of the "greatest article writers in the sports world" group and need to be mentioned. They both have their own blogs here: Joe
and Sam ...

So, we have this new SAfSaPD and upon his hiring, forgot that we didn't have that position open, so we decided to create it, thereby sealing our doom for next year and forecasting a 50 win season...Well...probably not...but honestly, do we need to hire any more people to realize that Kansas City might just be a farm system for the Major Leagues? I don't want to be, but for the past decade+, that's all we've been! We find a good player and then trade him for worse players and trade them for injured players and then trade them for a bag of balls and a burger from 5 Guys Burgers and Fries.*

(Which is absolutely worth the risk there...I think I'd of traded Sweeney and Emil for a 5 Guys burger without the fries...)

So, what's going to happen? All my readers out there need to voice their opinions...All 0 of you right now. :) And about 2 hours ago a story was posted that Teahen might be needed by the Cubbies...tell em we'll take Soriano and Aramis Ramirez for him and see what they say!

New blog...

So, I decided to do my own blog...I'm not gonna lie, I probably suck at it. In fact, I'm really not that much of a journalist which is making me think that doing this might not be very good for me...Oh well, life goes on.

So I'm pretty much gonna stick to baseball on this blog. I love the Royals, hopefully they won't be as terrible as they have been my entire life. '03 was a fluke, Angel Berroa still sucks and Tony Pena is the best first base coach to have a son playing backup shortstop in the league. Anyway...

First topic of discussion:
The Royals finished with a 75-87 season. Up 6 from last season and up 13 from the '06 season. What do we think of this season now that we've had time to think and choose our MVP's and all that crap?

Second topic of discussion:
Mike Jacobs? Shall I say anymore? What the heck is this guy doing playing 1st for the boys in blue? Do we worry that injury will plague the other 4 that we have? Explain that to me.

* P.S. - explain the .299 OBP...that will definitely help us win the small ball game.

Third and final topic of discussion:
Money. Yeah the economy is down, yeah the stock market is looking terrible, yeah people are getting laid off, but tell me when the last time Wal-Mart's stock dropped drastically. Are they going out of business? If they aren't, then why isn't Mr. Glass dropping a little bit more than 60 million on the team this year?