***Official Royals vs White Sox GDT - May 9***
 

Stepping into the GDT starter role to break the losing streak.

Minor with a great first inning.

What's this? A good first inning and we're ahead? Oh shit, that's something we ain't seen in awhile!

I love the pink bats!

DAMN,Soler is battling here 7 straight fouls before grounding out.

Dang it, that didn't last very long...

In it to win it

When do we get to play Detroit again?....

Because we are back to helping the other team win.

Tuesday night

Alberto has 142 straight plate appearances without a walk. That is insanely pathetic.

When does a slump official become an implosion?

Whelp.....

At least Merrifield shows he's trying. That makes one of them.

This just isn’t a very good team. They lack far too much to compete at a high level. At least April was fun....

When does a trade request start to enter into the minds of Whit and Salvi?

Hudler spraying tons of pixie dust today. To say the least, he's the right man for that job.

LMAO Wow!

I watched Mortal Kombat today. I feel that the R’s should be forced into some life or death struggle to where they just magically obtain a gift or upgrade that forces them to win. This has been a loooooooong week.

.500 team that just came back to the mean.

We're lining the ball all over the park against this ****.

This team has shaky pitching and average defense, I think we all figured that going into the season. To be competitive, the offense has to produce and be in the top 10 in the league.

This team is just not gonna do much if Soler, Merrifield, Dozier, and Santana are all slumping at the same time.

White Sox have hit quite a few this series that have hit the chalk and been fair.

This game feels like everythign the white sox hit has eyes, and everything the Royals hits is magnetized to a glove.

Time to clean house, Holland and Davis are done. I understand the desire to try to turn the clock back to 2014/15 however it isn't working.

Looking forward to the off day tomorrow so I'm not making myself crazy over how bad they look. This is back to the pathetic years where they were losing 100 games a year and were just B A D.

Dude, they signed those guys to minor league deals. They were lottery tickets.

Until and unless the Royals are willing to shell out serious money for quality pitching, this is what you're going to get until this next wave of draftees are ready for the big leagues. And even then, there's no guarantee they'll win anything.

And the Royals lost 100 games in 2019. The only reason they didn't lose 100 games in 2020 is because they didn't play a full season.

Being a small market team is tough; unless they can fall into another deal like they did in 2014/15, it's going to be difficult for this team to compete with the teams with an unlimited budget on payroll.

It's not that they lose, it's that they aren't even competitive. It's hard to watch.

I don't think the Royals need to compete with the Dodgers, Phillies, Red Sox and Yankees of the world in terms of payroll to to be competitive, but bargain-bin shopping isn't going to win any thing of note, either.

At least they're smiling and laughing. I suppose there's a silver lining in the dark cloud there...

Its just a bad stretch for a team that overachieved in April. No need to freak out.

Choking f-ing losing pussies. Getting swept in back to back series against division opponents AT HOME.

Same old Royals. No longer relevant after Mother's Day, Pathetic effort all week. Just dismal.

And this will look worse in about 20 minutes I suppose. Ugh!

At least they're only listed as 2.5, soon to be more, games back

AL Central W L Pct GB Home Away Streak RS RA Diff L10

Kansas City 16 16 .500 2.5 8-11 8-5 L-7 134 159 -25 2-8

Yes change pitchers, this game is far from being over. LMAO

Incorrect.

And the only reason the Dodgers finally won the title was because they didn't have to play a full season and choke in the playoffs yet again.

Phoenix is just a wanna be LA with more heat. Change my mind.

:eek:

Dumb^

Their run differential equated to 73-89.

I guess that's kind of fair and fine by me as long as it never gets that expensive to live here.

And it's better than living in the Midwest. Change my mind.

Just stay positive. :)

I’m positive they suck..

Maybe the fairly recent success of the team is making this harder for me to accept; after the 1994 strike, I lost all interest in the Royals and baseball as the large market teams dominated. 2014 & 15 got my interest back when the Royals made some, IMO once in a lifetime, deals that helped them get to the World Series twice in a row. The scheduling was fortunate as well because they didn't face the Red Sox or Yankees in either post season.

I understand that the two pitchers I mentioned aren't making much money yet they are taking spots on the roster. I'm not a fan of the manager and what I don't understand is: if the Royals are rebuilding and want to get young players MLB experience, why even bother with older players unless it's to be a mentor in the clubhouse.

It's like reliving the late 80s, 90s, 00s, again. Or the 70s & 80s Chiefs (although the 90s were tougher because the teams were competitive and always found a way to lose).

I don't want to go back to not caring about them.

May of 2013. The Royals had a 12 game losing streak and were sitting at something like 23-33. They would then go on to have the best record in baseball through the 2016 ASB.

This team is somewhere in the middle of the 2012 and 2013 teams. It’s worth keeping an eye on, but it’s likely going to be a year before we’re making noise in September (like in 2013).

Baseball is a game of streaks. The best team in baseball (Dodgers) are in the middle of a 2-8 stretch. Hell its a sport where 60% winning percentage normally is the best in the league. I just don't get the chicken little screaming over a bad week especially with a team that should be at .500 or just a little below.

Holland and Davis were depth signings. Zimmer and Hahn being hurt as forced them into more innings than what is planned.

Not to worry, the usual "there is not such thing as a fire" crowd will be around to explain everything from "it's a long season", to "small market", to "just a slump", to God knows what...

Look at the famous dumbass who made the Yost needs to yell at them to get them play better.

So disappointing- I really thought these epic losing streaks that have been a hallmark of shitty royals teams in years past were behind us. They absolutely shriveled up at the first sign of adversity.

Told ya... LMAO

We may never win another game.

Good point, I wasn't aware of that. I thought of it as a publicity stunt...

The Royals aren't close to winning this division. They are 2-13 against the White Sox the past two seasons and the White Sox just dominated the Royals without two of their best players in Jimenez and Robert.