2011 Ray W Award Winners !

 Well here it is. The 2011 Ray W Award winners. A big thanks to everyone who voted, it still wasn't an extremely high voter turn out,  but it was much higher then the previous years.

And as spring training descends upon us, 2012 looks like it's going to be a pretty great year for the Royals !

Without farther ado,

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 "The Best Royals Blog" goes to:

Rany on the Royals 

In what ended up being the closest vote by far as Rany beat out Kings of Kauffman by a single point.

Previous winners:
2008: Rany on the Royals
2009: Royals Centricity

2010: *

2011: Rany on the Royals

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Best New Royals Blog

Pinetarpress.com 

Previous winners:
2008: Royally Speaking
2009: Kings Of Kauffman

2010: *

2011: Pine Tar Press

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*New Award* Best Royals Twitter(er)

@FakenedYost 

 Twitter is huge for baseball and according to the fans a fake manager is a great as Royals Twitter land gets.

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Best Royals Relief Pitcher

Greg Holland 

Previous winners:
2008: Ramon Ramirez
2009: Robinson Tejeda

2010: *

2011: Greg Holland

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The IRTGFNORRP

 

Matt Treanor 

This is my favorite award. Jeff Fulchino 2008 ! :) 

Previous winners:
2008: Jeff Fulchino2009: Zack Greinke

2010: *

2011: Matt Treanor

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Best Royals Board

Royals Review 

Previous winners:
2008: Royals.com Board2009: Royal Board

2010: *

2011: Royals Review

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Best Royals Sportswriter:

Bob Dutton 

Previous winners:
2008: Sam Mellinger2009: Joe Posnanski

2010: *

2011: Bob Dutton

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Best Royals Prospect Blog:

Pine Tar Press

Previous winners:
2008: The Royal Tower

2009: The Pipeline

2010: *

2011: Pine Tar Press

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The Overall Best Royals Site

Royals Review  

 I'm just going to rename this the Royals Review Award I think......

Previous winner:

2008: Royals Review

2009: Royals Review

2010: *

2011: Royals Review

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Best Restaurant Chain

Applebees

 Previous winners:

2008:Sonic

2009: Hooters

2010: *

2011: Applebees
 

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Best Royals Executive or Non Player

JJ Picolo 

After co winning in 2009 JJ gets the award all to himself.

2009: JJ Picolo + Mike Arbuckle

2010: *

2011: JJ Picolo

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Royals Prospect of The Year

Jake Odorizzi

Previous winners:

2009: Mike Montgomery

2010: *

2011: Jake Odorizzi

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Best Kc Radio Personality

Nick Wright 

Previous winners:

2009: Greg Schaum

2010: *

2011: Nick Wright

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Best Soda

Dr.Pepper 

Previous winners:

2009: Pepsi

2010: *

2011: Dr.Pepper

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Special Achievement Award

Matt Treanor 

 Previous winners:

2008:Joe Posnanski

2009: Zack Greinke

2010: *

2011: Matt Treanor

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Best Royals on Radio Affiliate

610 AM  

Previous winners:

2008: Versailles 95.1 (Missouri)

2009: Omaha 590 Am (Nebraska)

2010: *

2011:   610 Am Kansas City
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Thanks for reading ! And let's make 2012 even greater !