Truly, as it is now football season officially, this will be the last semi-extended take I have on the Kansas City Royals until some story presents itself.
- It makes sense for the Royals to go ahead and leave Wil Myers in the minors for the rest of the year. I’ve thought that since about July 30.
- That doesn’t cover up the egregious error of not having him on the big league roster much earlier.
- Thank you, Jeff Francoeur, for making that point painfully obvious.
- Between Jonathan Sanchez, Francoeur/Myers, and the unbelievably terrible regression of Eric Hosmer, this hasn’t been a banner year for Dayton Moore.
- That’s right, I don’t count as progress things like tapping the ball around the infield or depending on weak fly balls to drop in order to raise a batting average to .240.
- Or, maybe I would if I didn’t see the same bent-waist swing on outer-half and off-speed pitches I’ve seen all season.
- Regardless, none of this matters if Dayton Moore doesn’t sign two legitimate starting pitchers this winter.
- Not one and Jeremy Guthrie.
- Two.
- The Kansas City Chiefs need two corners, apparently. A backup and a backup to the backup.
- That might have been less of a worry in the Marty-ball era of 260lb. running backs and Bill Parcells boring people to death with Jeff Hostetler as his Super Bowl winning quarterback.
- They also need a new on-air, online personality as Josh Looney, who had established himself as a perfectly good writer and was blossoming in his sideline reporter role with 65 TPT Productions, has announced he is leaving the organization after seven years to take a job in Indianapolis with the NCAA.
- That’s excellent news for my friend, and the second bad break for KC media in the past few days as Kansas City Star columnist Kent Babb is also headed east to Washington D.C.
- Word to the sports media hiring powers that be in this town: If you want people to stick around long enough to build 1) a following, 2) a career, and 3) a legacy that your company can be a part of and be proud of, you need to make it worth their while when they’re here.
- Just sayin’.
- As for the team, didn’t we go through this “reinventing the preseason” thing last year?
- How’d that turn out again?
- I know… I know… “If the Patriots are doing it…”
- If K-State doesn’t win by 30 or more on Saturday, I’ll be surprised.
- The Wildcats have some questions, sure, but the front-line guys are more than enough talented to blow the thing open early, and the team swears its attitude and mindset are right.
- They would have done the same last season had the offense not fumbled the ball five times.
- Then again, considering how 2011 worked out… maybe you ask Collin Klein to ruin his Heisman chances early and lay the pigskin on the Bill Snyder Family Stadium carpet repeatedly.
- What could it hurt? It’s not like Terry Allen is going to beat Bill Snyder.
- I swear I heard David Lawrence say on Monday night during “Hawk Talk” that the home opener for Kansas may be close to sold out? That can’t that be right? (I’ve asked the KU ticket office for confirmation, and I’ll let you know what I hear on this one.) —–> Update: just spoke to KU’s ticket folks. They have sold over 40,000 seats for Saturday’s opener. Official capacity is 50,071. Wow.
- If even half-true, erm, after getting only 300 people to show up for an open practice “event,” my hat is off to Weis’ ability to kickstart support of that magnitude.
- But, I pay that respect with a word of caution that “support” like that shouldn’t be confused with “curiosity.”
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