2013 Kansas City Royals

[HammerDown]

 

[HammerDown]

 

[HammerDown]

Wow, busy day for the Royals. The moves just keep coming!

 

[HammerDown]

Man, I love the K.

 

[black francis]

TOTAL



















FUCKING


















DISGRACE

 

[HammerDown]

This is embarrassing.

 

[HammerDown]

 

[BigRedMoe]

They make me sad face every. fucking. year.

 

[guitarmy21b]

If they can't get Shields a W against Houston tonight I'm gonna be fuckin pissed

 

[guitarmy21b]

Way to make Lyles look like an ace. Shields gets screwed again.

 

[black francis]

the royals won. who gives a shit which pitcher gets the W

 

[BigDDude]

And, how and why are they winning?


KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It all started when a new shipment of designated hitter Billy Butler's Hit It a Ton barbecue sauce arrived in the Royals clubhouse last week.

That's when Royals right-hander Jeremy Guthrie began passing bottles of the sauce around the dugout during the game, rewarding Royals for getting big hits.

The television cameras began taking note, and now the story is close to going viral: There are bottles of Billy's barbecue sauce everywhere in the dugout, and players from Guthrie to Alex Gordon to Eric Hosmer to David Lough to Sal Perez have been shown grabbing the bottles and flashing them before the cameras after each Royals run.


Don't expect the fun to end all that soon: Through Monday, the Royals have won six in a row for the first time in two years and have seemingly righted their season — and it all coincides with Guthrie unleashing the power of the sauce.

"It started exactly when the streak started," Butler said. "Baseball players are superstitious. We all know that. It's not going to change. I like it.

"We got a new shipment in right before that first win of the streak. Jeremy has been getting us going ever since."

Although Butler launched his line of barbecue sauce over two months ago, the added TV exposure from the dugout shots apparently has boosted sales in the last week.

"We sold out of some grocery stores already in the last couple of days," Butler said.

Guthrie said he isn't sure why he started grabbing bottles of the sauce and passing them out in the dugout after a score.

"When that shipment came in I just thought, 'Hey, we need to hit it a ton, too,' " Guthrie said. "And we started to."

Win No. 6 in the streak came Monday night as Guthrie and the Royals battled to a tight 3-2 win over the division-leading Detroit Tigers. Guthrie picked up the win, though he gave up a two-run homer to Miguel Cabrera in 6 1/3 innings of work.

"Actually, I threw a few barbecue balls myself today," Guthrie said, smiling. "But we won anyway."

Hosmer has been in on the "promotion" as well. When the TV cameras found him after Monday's win in the clubhouse, he launched into his best sales pitch voice.

"Hey, you'll do anything to score a run and get some barbecue sauce," Hosmer said, smiling and holding up a bottle of Hit it a Ton sauce.

"And if you taste this sauce, you'll run the bases like me."

The idea for Billy's barbecue sauce came during the offseason and stemmed from Butler's relationship with Kansas City's Zarda barbecue, which along with Original Juan helped develop the sauce.

All proceeds from the sauce go to Butler's Hit It a Ton foundation, which supplies food to needy families in the Kansas City area.

 

[BigRedMoe]

They've won their last four series, including 3 of last 4 games over the Rays. Still 1 game under .500....

Start a 3 game set with Indians.... time to start chipping away.

 

[HammerDown]

 

[BigDDude]

It was on this date back in 1986 that Bo Jackson, who will eventually spend four seasons with the Oakland Raiders, signs to play baseball with the Royals, the defending World Champions. The Auburn running back had been drafted first overall in the 1986 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but the Heisman trophy winner turns down the Buccaneers' more lucrative offer when the team refuses to let him play two sports

 

[BigDDude]

Choosing one's own walk-up music is all the rage these days in baseball. That is, each player in the majors -- and many lower levels on down to even some high schools -- picks a song that will be played as he walks up to bat. Bullpen pitchers -- think Mariano Rivera coming in to Metallica's Enter Sandman -- and some starters do so as well.


For Chris Getz of the Royals, it's,......well,........ the music from the old 1980's video game RBI Baseball.

I liked the guy before this ( how could I not. This spring, he hit a homer right to me, and the ball is in my den ). I REALLY like this guy now.

Well played!

 

[BigRedMoe]

I just felt like putting these somewhere...

 

[black francis]

Choosing one's own walk-up music is all the rage these days in baseball. That is, each player in the majors -- and many lower levels on down to even some high schools -- picks a song that will be played as he walks up to bat. Bullpen pitchers -- think Mariano Rivera coming in to Metallica's Enter Sandman -- and some starters do so as well.


For Chris Getz of the Royals, it's,......well,........ the music from the old 1980's video game RBI Baseball.

I liked the guy before this ( how could I not. This spring, he hit a homer right to me, and the ball is in my den ). I REALLY like this guy now.

Well played!

Too bad he fucking sucks

 

[MISKO]

good game yesterday fellas .... good luck to ya today

 

[Ned Yost dislikes ESPN]

Ned yost watches these boards here..lol