Royals Merch 5: Non Affiliated Handmade Merch

I think Fydor Dostoyevsky said it best with his hit novel Crime and Punishment:

"At the beginning of July, during a spell of exceptionally hot weather, towards evening....."

Not really sure what that has to do with much of anything really, other then where will the Royals be in the beginning of July ? I mean with the Tigers addition of big Price Fielder it's going to be that much harder to compete in the AL Central. But nine years wow seems like a long contract for such an, um, rather big guy.

So with money and length running through my mind I ended up looking on the craft site Etsy and found some, well, uh, rather interesting  Kc Royals stuff. And therefore I must present you.....

Royals Merch 5: Non Affiliated Handmade Merch 

Well first off we have this lovely Royals flower hair piece that would lovely on just about everyone. I mean how could you not look great in it ? With this your face would look as Sunflower. 

Yours for $6.99 by AlexaRayesCollection

Here we have another cute little thing, a logo magnet. Face it most of our fridges are either covered in a cupons and magnets of our insurance agents and such or your kids art work. So why not having something that is cozy yet suave. 

Well you can for only $2.50 from AuntCCcreations

In keeping with the current trend we have an awesome hat for that little person in your life. Although the listing says you can get adult sizes made. It looks great but no word on how well it'll protect against a fastball to the head....   

Yours for the mere price of  $ 25.95 from thebabykeeper

Royals baseball, Winnie The Pooh, and your name.What is do you need in life ?

Yours for only $7 from TeamsandToons

How often are you going to get married ? I mean surely your not planning on getting married 7 or 8 times, and if you are no one is going to really going to care after # 3 or 4. So hopefully you'll listen to me and only get married once, and therefore it needs to be unforgettable. And alas Royals garters.    I mean what guy isn't going to try and catch that ? So make your wedding one of a kind with this.

$30 from TheArtofSports

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Okay I know what your thinking, usually these Royals Merch series I do have some sort of crazy thing at the end. And why should this be any different ?

So here you go guys............

 

Bam ! 

Her and his G-Strings. Lined for comfort even. (Or so it says)

So yeah since I know you're dying to get them sent your way here's the links.

Hers:$ 7.99

His: $8.99

From pmtresurechest.

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Also don't forget to vote in the Ray W Awards you've got 5 more days.
Part 1 and 2. Only takes a minute.

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2011 Ray W Nominees

I hope all of you in the Midwest have been enjoying the beautiful day today, and maybe even you got off today for Martin Luther King Jr day. As promised here is the nominees for the 2011 Ray W awards as chosen by a group of world famous Royals bloggers.
Here is where you help decide the winners, just comment or email me with your first (3 points), second (2 points), and third place (1 point) choices for each category.
Voting closes at the end of January, be sure to let everyone know. :)
Thanks, and good luck !

EDIT: Easier way to just put a first place vote: 

(Part 1 and 2)
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Best Royals Blog
Rany on the Royals
Kings of Kauffman
Royals Authority
Pine Tar Press

Best New Royals Blog
Pinetarpress.com
KcLongball

Best Royals Twitter(er)
PCBearcat
FakenedYost
MinnesotaRoyal
Kevin_Agee
devil_fingers

Best Royals Relief Pitcher
Holland
Soria
Coleman


The IRTGFNORRP
Matt Treanor
Chris Getz
Mitch Maier

Best Royals Board
Royals Review
Royals Corner
Royals.com board


Best Royals Sportswriter:
Bob Dutton
Sam Mellinger
Rany Jazayerli

Best Royals Prospect Blog:
Pinetarpress.com
omahabaseball360.com
Kc Pipeline

The Overall Best Royals Site
Royals Review
Royals.com
Kc Star
Royals Authority
Pine Tar Press

Best Restaurant Chain
Chipolte
Houlihans
Red Lobster
Applebees

Best Royals Executive or Non Player
JJ Picolo
Dayton Moore
Mike McCartney
Kevin Seitzer

Royals Prospect of The Year
Sal Perez
Jake Odorizzi
Alex Herrera
Cheslor Cuthbert

Best Kc Radio Personality
Danny Parkins
Nick Wright
Josh Klingler
Bob Fescoe

Best Soda
Diet Dr Pepper
Dr.Pepper
Pepsi
Coke

Special Achievement Award* Vote for whoever you feel like
Matt Treanor for taking some amazing hits behind home and spending several months in AA when he didn’t have to
-Or-
Billy Butler for getting the best nickname in recent Royals history, "Country Breakfast"

Best Royals on Radio Affiliate
610 AM Kc
680 KFEQ St.Joe,Mo
1480 KLMS Lincoln, NE

Attendence, and whtat Underground Music has to do with it

On this date (January 15th) 3 years ago I had a post about what the Royals Radio Network stations were "jamming" (or lack there of) when the Royals games weren't on. And well not a whole lot has changed in 3 years I mean we now have a "Top 40 pop" and "variety" stations but where are the underground and scene radio stations ? I mean the numbers don't lie, Kansas City was 27th in total attendance last year....

But on the other side of that spectrum the Phillies and Yankees were # 1 and 2 in attendence. And you have to ask yourself, "Self why is this ?"

To which your answer was maybe: "They are both Winners"

Well I'm sure that your inital thought was because they are both perinial winners.

Whyt'd I even ask you that ?

But because that is what you were thinking,

You are mistaken......

See New York and Philly are both huge in the underground music scene, obviously popular with there fans. Okay maybe not so much in New York as they are more gangsta..... 

But for sure for the Phillies whom have a huge fan in JB Brubaker lead guitarist for Metalcore powerhouse August Burns Red.

JB laying down the killer riffs

So yeah it's all about reaching the underground kids and getting them hooked on Kc Royals baseball.
Because let's face it the current formula isn't working as great as it could be.
(Still I'm sure we'll outdraw the Pirates in 2012, want to bet on it CH ?)

So Mr. GM Dayton sir, if your reading this let's get a Underground Day at the K where we can get all the punks, goths, scene, and hardcore kids to the K and get them addicted. Hook them the mouth and reel'em in like the catch of the day. Because let's face it the best we have now is:

A: Garth Brooks whom my grandpa says "screams to much"

or

B: Ke$ha dating Aaron Crow which I have no clue if they are still together or if she even still has a career.

or even

C. Some WWE wrestling personality

So yeah... can someone please tell me how that relationship is going ? ET won't they are to busy trying to tell me about the possible Tim Tebow - Katy Perry (ex-Brand) thing her folks are supposedly pushing.

 

So in closing I think it's obvious the Royals NEED a bigger presence in the underground music of Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, Wyoming, and South Dakota.

So, at the very least, the RRN needs to find a underground style radio station or something. 

Because let's face it, we're going to have a fairly good team and those seats need to be filled.

Heck maybe even a tattoo or piercing night at the K would work.........

(End)

PS. I know I said I'd get the Ray W Award nominees up but I got busy geez... I'll get them up soon.

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Repeat.

Okay, same broken record. Or at least scratched, like my "Best Of Leon", Leon Russell album.You know were it keeps skipping back and forth without letting you know whats happening. And why did it have to be on the song Roll Away The Stone ?
I mean you guys know by now, how I go through these long droughts without posting and always come back with a lame," I was about to call it quits because of blah, blah, blah." Posts and this is no different.
BUT, it's still a fairly okay read.
And frankly here of late it seems like the Royals almost don't want me as a fan !
I mean the last time I was at the K, I forgot a pen for keeping score so I asked if I could have a pencil but of course they didn't have any so I had to buy a $5 pen which broke as soon as I got home.
See:

It's been setting on my desk like that all winter collecting dust, making me question why if I would ever post again.<--- (See I told you I was going to whine and moan)

But then came the news that the Royals Caravan would be back for 2012 ! But is it anywhere near California, Mo ? NOT AT ALL. No Jefferson City, no Columbia, nope.
But hey they'll be in Springfield ! Checking out the Cardinals AA facilitates no doubt. I mean how low is that ?
And besides that when you google "2012 Royals Caravan" the first site that pops up is to build a 2012 Dodge Caravan. So I did....

What the Royals Caravan drives around when ignoring Mid-Mo

But hey at least it's not all been bad since my last post (only God knows when that was), we now have Jose Mijares, Jonathan Sanchez, and I've got to try and remember how to spell Yuniesky Betancourt again !
So it's all good....

Well at least that's what I thought until this morning on my Facebook feed I read:

Royals introduce Bruce Chen Joke of the Day promotion 

Club invites fans to submit jokes for CrownVision feature

And that had to be responded to right ? I mean first I get igonred for the Blog Your Way to the K promotion (never letting that one go) and now they want me to let Bruce use MY original stand up comedy ? For free ? Really ? I mean love isn't a one way street. I can't keep giving it out without getting some love or at least wins, back.
But maybe for Mr.Chen......
Knock, knock....

In closing I just want to say that I'll always be a Royals fan unless they do something EXTREMELY wrong & dumb, just like I'll always be a Raiders fan.
But still I had to ask myself, why keep this blog when there are so, so many better ones ? And the answer is fairly simple. Unlike everyone else I don't want to be the next Dutton, or Mellinger, or even *:gasp:*  Posnanski. I just want to be (as far as I know) the only Royals blogger with a lip ring. I just want to haunt the internet my opinion, and the occasional funny post or interview. Without really caring if it looks like a 12 year old wrote it.
So tomorrow I'll post the nomines for the 2011 Ray W awards, be sure to check it out and help decide the outcome. Spring Training and the best team the Royals have had in a long while is just around the corner...

Two Cents whore

 Okay sorry couldn't help the title thought maybe it could get me some more readers like when I twitted it about a band and got like 5 followers trying to sell me Viagra, and sex toys. So I thought why not put it as the title ya know ? Whats the worst that could happen ? Okay yeah I thought about that one to but it's to late now you're already reading the post so here you go:

First Cent:
Well I guess the big news today is that we've acquired SP Jonathan Sanchez from the Giants for Melky Cabrera. Not really a big move in the grand scheme of things. They are both free agents after next year and the Royals desperately need pitching and already have Jarrod Dyson to play Centerfield (and Lorenzo Cain but you know whatever).So it's really a pretty great trade for the Royals, Melk had a great year but will he be that good ever again ? Who knows. Shancez had a bad year last year with a BB/9 of 5.9 showing why he wasn't acquired by the Twins. But on the reverse of that coin he does get a lot of strikeouts but still he was pretty bad. Will he be that bad and injury plagued again in 2012 ? I don't think so. But who knows. Both of these guys are capable of having great years in 2012 but one thing remains, Shancez is going to help, but I'd still love another guy or three. But hey we did get sexy AA pitcher Ryan Verdugo.

Future Fan Favorite Ryan Verdugo

Second Cent:

In other far less appealing news the Royals are reported to be selling the naming rights to Kauffman Stadium. Sure $3-6m a year would be a nice piece of pie in the owners wallet. Where odds are it might stay forever. But seriously the team hasn't been in the playoffs for how long ? And now we want to change the name from Royals/Kauffman to I don't know F.U. Bank Field or whatever the heck it is ? I don't... know if they do, heck,... that could be the end for me, for real.

Bonus: Went to the Chiefs game yesterday, and man is it just me or is Todd Haley worse then Trey Hillman ? Geez folks.....

Farewell To Gibby and the Legendary Bob McClure

So the Royals have parted ways with Pitching Coach Bob McClure and Bench Coach John Gibbons.
After 3 years John was a staple of the Royals bench and hangover from a drunken night out on the Trey.
McClure, well Bob was the Royals Pitching Coach forever.  A staple of Kc for 6 years. People would come out to watch  a 90+ loss team night after night just hoping to catch a glimpse of the legendary Bob McClure. After all he did for Kc only to be let go.

And now with the addition of former Braves Bench Chino Cadahia, talk around town is maybe a former Braves pitching coach might end up in Kc, but enough about that.

What we should really be asking ourselves is what are Bob and John going to do in this rough economy ? I mean you can't just go out and get a job !
So I've decided to help, it's the absolute least I could do.

Bob McClure: ......................

    Substitute for DJ Lance of Yo Gabba Gabba !

And

John Gibbons: .....................

Watch out ICarly fans because Gibby is replacing Gibby.

Best luck to both guys in their future endeavors unless of course they face the Royals

Sorry about the edits I could do better just didn't feel like it.

Blogin' Blase

Say what you will but I've became a fairly calloused fan. Of course that comes with the territory of being a Royals fan the past X amount of years and maybe even it's because I'm just a more calloused person then I was in 2008. (it's true) But more then I want to see the Royals win tomorrow I genuinely want to see the Twins lose 100 games. I just feel like it's wrong in a way to want that because there are some great Twins fans out there but darn it they should feel how it feels to lose 100. And let's face it the Twins are way to snoody.

This season has came and passed without much posting from me but the great news is the Royals for the first time in who knows how long have an infield made (almost) entirely of rookies who are also very capable ballplayers. Not the usual lot of rookies who are all AAAA players but guys with All Star potential.

Also while I'm at it I take back what I said earlier in the year about Jeff Francoeur, he came to Kc played his guts out took us home and made me actually kind of like him.

Finally the Royals traded Kila Ka'aihue to the A's for pitcher  Ethan Hollingsworth. Kila 's DFA sent the Royals Yahoo board a fire with talk about whether Kila was ever a top prospect and such. Bottom line is Kila never got his shot in Kc that he should have. At least not for three years, but when he did get his shot he did no better then Calvin Pickering. So overall it's just another minor league trade.

Finally a Shawnee Mission West High School teacher will appear in court on sex charges. Does that have anything to do with the Royals ? No.  It has absolutely nothing to do with the Royals, I was just checking on the Star for Royals news and thought I'd make my blogging return a little racy.

7-19

Hey guys it"s been forever. I know. I've really missed a lot of baseball and Royals coverage. But on July 19th (2 days after my last post) my dad was injured and spent 21 days in ICU before heading to rehab we're he's still at (He's paralyzed from the waist down) . So I just haven't had the time nor energy.
Still the Royals are having a great September as always !
So anyway this Sunday I'll be at the K so if you want to look me up I'd love to talk Royals with you, just send me an email.

As for the future of RoRetc it's not to certain but still we're in better shape then the Big 12......

As always thanks for reading,
Ray W

Updating a broken Record.

Yes I still care, yes I still watch and listen. No I don't have anything important to say right now.
What could I say ? It's the same thing over and over and over again, so for now I've got nothing much to say.
BUT !
As the trade deadline gets nearer and nearer, there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that will change. 
Once again sorry for the lack of posts, I really am.

I mean I got 250 business cards with this blog address on them !
So rest assured I'm not going away anytime soon.
But for now I'll silently lurk, smirk and make faces at Kyle Davies......

Losing Streaks Are Like....

Losing streaks are like this......

(Man shows off his  Royal's Baseball Pride[MSN])

Horrible to look at, smelly, overall disturbing and setting next to you on your 3 hour flight....

But not to worry.

To much.

Tomorrow marks a new day, maybe a last chance for Danny Duffy to prove he should stay in the Majors.

And besides your use to losing streaks by now, I mean you ARE a Royals fan right ?

You are use to losing streaks like Trey Hillman, Ned Yost, and Jeff Foxworthy are use to attending Bible studies.

But don't fret, comedian Jeff Foxworthy has this to say:

"It's exciting," he said. "This team's a year or two away from being one of the coolest teams to watch in baseball." 

So if you didn't believe Tony Pena when he said...

If you don't believe baseball gurus when they say it....

Don't you dare laugh when a professional comedian says it  !