Mother Nature Is A Terrorist

Well even though the Royals came within 3 outs on defense the great start by Ervin Santana never happen.
Because of rain....that became snow. (On May 2nd)

And well,

Because Mother nature is a terrorist......

Snow falls.

People take photos from the Rays dugout.

Christmas in May.

Ugh

The Downward Spiral ?

No we're not talking about the Nine Inch Nail's album that spun a song that would eventually be covered by Johnny Cash. And a whole lot of other songs I'm not going to mention....
But what we are talking is almost just as warped and just as brutal. Filled with hate and pain and everything evil in America.

Just look at the NIN cover real closely and you'll see it:

BAM !  A Parental Advisory Explicit Content sticker. Do you see that ? See it's that time of year where the Royals who start out hot fizzle into the 90 loss team we know and love (despise).

Just. 

like.

always.

 I could go dig up past results and examples but that would be to painful.

I mean:

• Stats like: in 2009 the Royals where 18 - 11 in their first 29 games in and finished 65 -97
• Names like: Yasuhiko Yabuta, Sidney Ponson, John Bale, Josh Anderson, etc, etc.

See this is the scary part of the season where the Royals tend to:

I know, I know, it's innocent enough back to back losses. But the next thing you know:

Lemmings of death jumping into a downward spiral.

 And the fact that both of the losses where pretty well blowouts to a lackluster Cleveland Indians team, well.  it really starts to make you doubt the whole "Our Time" "Come To Play" slogan.
Then again, maybe I'm just paranoid and have trust issues after years of abuse and neglect from my favorite team.  But hey, there are always worse things that could happen.

Let's just hope James Shields can help us get back on track tonight against the jerks that are the Rays.

I'm sorry Jeff, it's not me, it's you. :(

As we wait for game 2 of the new Royals Sunday tradition, the make up game doubleheader.

(You can't sweep the doubleheader if you don't win the first one. ~ Rex Hudler) 

I've got this one thing I must get off my chest.
 I don't like Jeff Francoeur. For starters he's to nice of a guy, and he has just way to much moral character.
 Remember the whole Bacon Tuesday thing last year ? The consent smiling. And upbeat attitude !
The praise of  announcers everywhere saying: "He's one of the true good guys in the game"
And that's not why I don't like Jeff Francoeur. Because he makes me want to like him, I really really do want to like him !

But I just can't.

And here is why.

See after a quick look at the numbers through 77 At Bats this year we have two sides of Jeff,

THE OKAY Jeff Francoeur
19 Hits 8 Runs 5 XBH 6 RBI .
                vs.
THE OUTRAGEOUSLY BAD Jeff Francoeur
19 K's 3 BB .284 OBP

And every time I've had it with him though it seems like he comes through with a clutch hit.

But still the fact is out of 20 games on the season, he has only went 6 without striking out.
The guy has as man strikeouts as he does hits !!!!!
Let's be honest, I hate nothing more then the sacrifice bunt. (unless there is a runner on second with no outs in a tie game, then and only then is it acceptable)
But there is a very close second to the sac bunt, and it's called the strikeout.

In a game where the best hitters fail 7 times out of 10. A strikeout is a fail 10 times out of 10.
It accomplishes absolutely NOTHING.
Because obviously when you don't put the ball in play you can't get anywhere near the run column.


And Jeff Francoeur is an awful ofender striking out a hair ripping.....

23 % of his at bats this season

Jeff Francoeur hangs his head after striking out vs Toronto 

Billy Butler is John Lennon ?

So Rex was out walking before the game and a lady was wearing a Billy Butler jersey. And it was her birthday and she wanted to get a picture with Billy. So Mr.Hudler walks into the dugout and gets Butler and he comes out and gives her a hug and takes a picture with her.

And then according to Rex:

"And you'd have thought she John Lennon, from the Beetles."

 
 

           Yeah, I'm not seeing it...............

Defining a season by using the X method.

Ugh.

0-1.

The worst start you can have to a season Win - Loss wise.

And although it was a great start from new ace James Shields.....

But when you use the X method. Which I might add is very scientific by the way.

Well then your left with the worst season a team could have !

THE "X" METHOD 

(0 Runs Scored) X (162 Games) =  2* runs over the entire course of the season ! 

And on top of that what otherwise would amount to an amazing pitching performance   

(1 Run Allowed) X (162 Games) = 162 Runs^ /  (1296 IP) = 0.13. 

Which would shatter records but the resulting 1*-161 record that would result in unthinkable horrors that likes of which humanity has never seen ! 

^ (A MLB season record)

*(Dumb luck accounts for statistical errors)

I'm not sure this method is approved by Bill James, but it's been around for quite awhile in the underground circuits of baseball fans.

Of course by now you realize today is still April Fools Day. So yeah the X method is just a joke.
And hopefully the pathetic offensive output is a joke as well.
But you want to know what isn't a joke ?
The blessing of baseball and Denny Matthews voice. Dang, that man is amazing. 45 Opening Days of Royals baseball !  I guess the only bad thing besides the offensive output is that we have to wait till Wednesday to see/hear more Royals baseball. :p

There is a zombie in my closet....

Well here we are 138 days since I called it quits packed up my radio said my goodbyes and moved along. All good and fine. I never even logged onto here once during that time. (seriously how are those fish on the right still alive ? )

But I think, that maybe, just maybe, the Royals will be decent this year. I can't guarantee it and I'm sure disappointment will ensue, but I want to be involved until then. Ya know ?

So I guess this is the news..... I'm back.....

Kind if like a zombie. (maybe a little smarter, just a hair though)

And let me just say I've always hated bands, blogs, or whatever that quit and then come back.
( But hey I'm not starting a kickstarter or indieagogo so be happy with that)

So if  for that reason you choose not to read this post or anything I write on here ever again, that's awesome ! Stand up for what you believe in.
Yet I'm still optimistic that hopefully we can still be friends and you can eventually learn that it's impossible for me to quit following the Royals, (yet I never watched a single Spring Training game and had to have been fairly close this time) and maybe just maybe, you can learn to accept that like the McRib or Brett Farve, I just can't go away gracefully. Even if that would be better for all involved....

Anyway it's more like a perfect storm that's getting the blog up and running again, more then anything. See today is the season finale of The Walking Dead and tomorrow is Opening Day !
The perfect chance for a dead Royals blog to rise up and haunt the world wide web once more.

If your not familiar with The Walking Dead, it's about Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes and a group of people trying to live what little bit of life they have left before they eventually die and turn into zombies (or just die). It's sad at times and overall far from cheery. (Much like the Royals 1986 - present).

I don't really know where I'm going with this it sounded way better in my head.

 Other then tomorrow is Opening Day and RoRetc is back up until we get shot/stabbed/kicked/etc in the head. (Because this is a zombie blog now, remember ?) 

So stock up on the sunflower seeds, and scorecards. Sharpen the pencils and dust off those radios (Or else you could listen to Rex Hudler your choice, but no really dust off that radio) because tonight when the zombies are gone away and Mr.Grimes' crew goes the way of Emil Brown, Terrance Long, and Ross Gload. Well then it's baseball time.

So good luck to our beloved Royals and a special shout out to a fellow zombie trying to come back from the baseball grave Miguel Tejeda.

Fellow zombie Miguel Tejeda reaches for an Easter egg before I can get to it.

The bottom line is this:

The 2013 season is here and with "some" luck it'll finally be our year !

Video Killed The Radio Star

It all started 5 years ago with this little post: 

Ah wow isn't neat how these just seem to pop up out of no where. One minute their was not a Royals on Radio etc. but now their is. Pardon the progress (yeah it really is new) so what if it's not a "fancy" blog with Royals photos everywhere isn't it the words that count?Ah yes the Royals of Kansas City maybe this is the year we win 85 games, or by an act of God make the playoffs in which case their will be hundreds more Royals blogs. But tonight thier is just one new Royals on Radio etc. maybe someday this blog will be quoted in Royals Review or ranked among the many great Royals blogs with names like: well look for yourself. But for right now enjoy the newness. While I enjoy some sleep and look forward to a great 2008 season of Royals baseball.

Only to be followed by my first real post where I made fun of Micheal Warren Marroth, a start that not many blogs can duplicate.

But the fact is after a 2 year struggle I came up with only two viable options:

1. Keep the blog in a coma
2. Know when to call it a day.

And alas, I've got to call it a day. It seems like so much has changed of late that it's finally time. I did always hate blogs that only updated once in a blue moon. And so I decided it's best to go out on top. Even if RoRetc didn't change the course of the Royals blogosphere I hope it at least made you laugh, or think outside the box. I hope you enjoyed the RayW awards and Royals Merch series as much as I did.  We might never have gotten famous but we did get linked on MlBTR once and appear on a radio program.
I'll probable keep the url until I get sick of paying $10 a year, or maybe keep if forever in hopes of a return from the grave like a band on kickstarter or a zombie. (But I doubt it.) And you can always friend me on Facebook or twitter.

The past 5 years would never have happened without the following people and organizations:

 Jack Dempsey, Jeff Parker, Steve Hurst, Greg Schuam, Josh Duggan, The Tao, Ken Lassiter, Minda Haas, Daniel Shoptaw, Steve Stewart, Troy Olsen, Antonio Hernandez, Sam Mellinger, Michel Engel, Will McDonald, Craig Brown, Bill Ivie Jr, Keith Blackburn, everyone who posted at Royals Nation or the Yahoo group, the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, Denny Matthews, Ken Harvey, Nick Wright, Bob Fescoe, Bob Stalder, Jaime Cerda,Ryan Lefebvre, Toby Cook, Tim Dierkes, David Holtzman, Don Free, Royales With Cheese, and anyone else whom I might have missed. Last but certainly not least anyone thats ever bothered to read my ramblings. If we agreed or you thought I was an idiot it meant the world to me.

Also absolutely no thanks whatsoever to: 

Corey Hume, Linda Smith, Rex Hudler, the Royals player who told me to stop bashing Trey Hillman, or the St.Louis Cardinals fans that are annoying as heck.

Again, thank you the readers. I never set out to have people read RoRetc but when they did it was something special and for that I'll always be grateful. Go Royals !

Signing off for the last time,

    Ray W

821 in the land of 2012

It all started so nice

2012

"Our Time"

an election year.

But then the Royals became....

.........

..........a Royals baseball team.

I got bored.

Jose Mijaries got lost on a wavier claim.

Then we all found out that Ourtime.com is:

"the Dating Site for Singles Over 50"

The only demographic that ever saw a good Royals team.

But alas their is hope,

Because:

It's came to this

But thank God Rex is keeping Kansas City clean, 

of vermin !

Hudled

Rex Hudler spent a couple innings with the Cardinals fans, looks like they couldn't handle it...
(Remember Cards fans aren't always the sharpest so please don't be to mad)

So here's a couple screenshots of a few Twitter posts.....

Sweep of the Beer City Wisconsinites

Don't blame me. You can't. Well you could, but that wouldn't be nice.

In fact that'd be like an Alice Cooper grimace.

It just get so hard to post sometimes.

And then bam three straight come from behind amazing wins over the Brewers for the sweep ?

And Denny announces Jarrod Dyson is safe at the plate for the win....

AND

IT'S

 OH YEAH !!!

So as we prepare for the I-70 series we've got some pretty nice momentum. 

And well hopefully we keep it up, and I'll try and get some momentum going here as well.