Woke up a little bit cranky today after dreaming, I kid you not, about scenarios involving waiver claims and the Kansas City Royals. Details of the dreams of fuzzy, but some of it involved a meeting between myself, Billy Beane and Dayton Moore.
- Maybe I’m glad I don’t remember how that turned out.
- A day later, and the Royals’ move to simply cut ties with reliever Jose Mijares makes even less sense than it did on Monday afternoon.
- Then again, as long as the clubhouse is now freed up to be all smiles before and during games (here’s looking at you, Chris Getz and Kevin Seitzer and Brayan Peña), then hey, that’s what’s really important here.
- Comfort and happiness is the most important thing for this team. Pulling together and trying hard, even if it still results in losses, is what matters… is that what we take from this?
- If Dick Vermeil used to be criticized for running a country club of a locker room, what do we call this atmosphere?
- Tell me again how throwing money into the wind — because pitching is the currency of baseball, right Dayton Moore? — is going to help Eric Hosmer quit swinging at just about every first pitch he sees, regardless of situation?
- I had several make half-hearted references given to me on Twitter that this is an ownership problem.
- They were half-hearted, I think, because we all understand the absolutely horrendous decisions that have been made below the owner level.
- The Royals want to point out that Mijares wasn’t picked up by almost everyone else. True, but the team that got him? Yeah, that team is in first place.
- Insert something here about actual production mattering above anything else…
- At this point, when your season-end meeting comes around, aren’t you hoping, if you’re Dayton Moore, that the owner is as aloof to the situation as fans and media like to believe he is?
- And no, by the way, it was not worth the past two months of sticking with Jeff Francoeur for home runs the past two days.
- If Mijares doesn’t fit into KC’s long-term plans, how does Francoeur with one expensive year left on his contract, pray tell?
- Oh right, the marketing department has shirts with his name on them.
- After seeing the Arizona Cardinals in action against New Orleans the other night, is it actually beneficial for the Kansas City Chiefs to waste time on the same field with them?
- You want to talk bad football team, holy wow.
- That’s the kind of team you hope a Dontari Poe can dominate against in the second and third quarters of his first preseason game.
- If he gets handled in that environment, against what should be pretty terrible depth, then there may be an issue.
- Past that, excuse me if I’m done with what a spring training or preseason means.
- The memory is still way too fresh of Eric Hosmer destroying opposing pitching leading into this campaign.
- As for the Chiefs, we hear amazing things about an entire stable of running backs, multiple tight end sets, defensive line play from virtual unknowns, etc.
- We can talk about them for entertainment purposes, sure, but as for real evaluations, I’ll just wait for a few regular season games, thanks.
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