The Royals fans decided to show up, but the Royals hitters didn’t. I think Pettitte was struggling at times to throw strikes, its just that the Royals hitters didn’t realize that and kept swinging at balls.
Royals lose to the Yanks 4-1.
I could really go for a Pepsi right about now.
2 wins and 1 lost. Series taken.
Bring on the 1-2 Yanks!
I’m too upset to give a detailed analysis of the game. The obvious is that Kyle Farnsworth is going to sleep alone tonight. Not even the Chicago Chinatown massage parlors will except his 2yr/$9mil contract money. Of all the bad things he could of done, walked 4 guys, give up a solo-homer, get kicked out of the game… he does the worst and GIVES UP A 3-RUN HOMER! At least tackle Jim Thome after he crosses home plate or something. That would of made it a little bit more bearable.
The other side to the lost is the 11 LOBs by the team who hit a League leading 56 homeruns in Spring Training. Maybe someone should tell Mike Jacobs popping a ball up doesn’t mean a homerun in Chicago and if Billy Butler is going to go 0-4 with 5 LOBs, his wife is not going to make his favorite Corn Dog Casserole anymore.
Ok, that felt nice. Now I have to give props to the two guys I’ve been ragging on. Alex Gordon showed he’s not as “pull-happy” as previous years with a deep homerun to center and Mark Teahen looked like a well balanced hitter at the plate, but he still shouldn’t be in the 3rd slot and can’t power arms. We’ll discuss more in the podcast.
After a Siberian-like winter storm that came through the South-Side of Chicago on Monday, the Kansas City Royals opened their 2009 MLB Season with a game against the Chicago White Sox today. The Royals lineup included new faces such as Covelli “Coco” Crisp and Mike “Anthrax” Jacobs. But people with access to the FS Kansas City TV broadcast, got an unpleasant surprise when FSKC’s Colorman Paul Splitorff decided to TALK. It must of been a wild night on Monday’s canceled day because Splitorff sounded like he had 10 cocktails, his wisdom teeth pulled, and contracted the Bird Flu all in one night. I think it took me literally two innings to figure out who was talking. For those who say he’s a “gamer” for showing up, I say they’re wrong and probably deaf. Give me boring Bob Davis, give me the live radio feed. Hell, give me Kermit the Frog. Maybe he’ll do a couple tunes from The Muppets Take Manhattan. I’d listen to that.
Kermit the Frog