OT- The Kansas City Royals hate everyone apparently
After finally becoming relevant the Royals have decided to have to develop a Napoleon complex and it's starting to become quite the issue as they're picking fights every series.
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/120176696/tensions-boil-over-in-royals-white-sox-fracas
April 24th, 2015 at 12:31 AM ^
The snozzberries taste like snozzberries.
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April 24th, 2015 at 12:43 AM ^
Well, that's an overreaction if I've ever seen one. Ventura is nuts.
April 24th, 2015 at 11:11 AM ^
white sox team who have a player that was convinced victor martinez had a dude with binoculars in cf giving pitching signs.
April 24th, 2015 at 12:51 AM ^
Samardzija? I remember when that bastard played for ND.
The Shark!
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OP isn't exaggerating. The Royals had incidents their opening series of the season against the White Sox, tried to pick a fight with Mike Trout (who is Mike Trout), and had another dustup last series with the A's.
I really want to like the Royals, and some of these fights they may not have started, but it's a disturbing pattern at best. At a minimum they just ticked off 3 different teams in 3 weeks.
April 24th, 2015 at 10:21 AM ^
And Yordano Ventura has been at the center of three of those. He was the one who yelled at Trout, he plunked Lawrie intentionally, and he started the crap last night. He got fined after the Lawrie thing, so he's definitely getting suspended for this incident, and I suspect a strong warning from the commish's office that next time it's going to be double digit games suspension.
April 24th, 2015 at 11:19 AM ^
That would last about as long as Nolan Ryan versus that other Ventura. Trout's got about 80 pounds of muscle on Yordano. That reminded me of that old cartoon with Spike the dog tormenting the bigger dog, until finally the bigger dog has enough and slaps Spike away.
Media darlings after a successful postseason run. And absolute assholes the next season.
Seahawks won.
I don't follow the correlation.
April 24th, 2015 at 12:22 PM ^
Just like they did with the Seahawks.
Good comparison with the Seahawks. Both teams decided they were entitled. At least the Seahawks won something...
They didn't win the fight at the end of the most recent Super Bowl. Or maybe they did. I don't remember.
April 24th, 2015 at 10:47 AM ^
GRONK was throwing people out the club
Ventura wants to be Pedro and throw Zimmer to the ground by his melon. But unfortunately Zimmer is already underground so Lil' Pedro is trying to fight with anyone who looks at him funny.
He got pummeled by the oldest player in baseball when he charged Nolan Ryan.
Not that Ventura. Yordano Ventura.
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+ ^^
April 24th, 2015 at 10:01 AM ^
Zimmer was a fucking moron. That's not on Pedro.
This will take a toll on them. Now every series teams are going to be hunting them even more.
I couldn't lip read what did he say?
Rhymes with "Duck Goo."
Seems odd to yell "buck poo" at Adam Eaton.
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That would be odd, if that's what he said, but clearly that was "Chuck who?"
They'll get what's coming to them.
Tough guys get strains over the course of this 162 game season?
Its only temporary...
April 24th, 2015 at 11:23 AM ^
Yordano can mouth off all he wants and it's his teammates that get plunked in retaliation. I actually sometimes like the DH because watching pitchers hit is painful, but I also like the strategy involved in the NL. One tweak I would make to the DH is that if his team's pitcher hits a batter, the next time the DH comes up, the pitcher has to bat. Maybe then asshats like Ventura wouldn't be so quick to throw at guys. If you make a mistake and hit a guy, the other team should realize that and they won't try to plunk you.
April 24th, 2015 at 12:43 PM ^
No. Eventually his teammates will get tired of taking fastballs in the rib cage, and they'll handle it in the clubhouse instead.
Tempers's are flaring, looking like Battle Royal out there from the WWE Attitude years.
needs anger mangement. That guy is straight nuts.
I'm no fan of the royals, they were annoying like this last year too but at least two of the fights were not on them. The A's might have the most assholes on their team besides the blue jays and the fight came after an incredibly dirty slide that could have broken a leg. If you try to injure someone you have getting a ball thrown at you coming.
This one, don't know what the lead up was but someone yelling fuck you is a pretty short fuse to go off on.
I don't think Lowrie intended to hurt him. It was a really bad play and bad decision, but if you actually saw the play and his reaction afterward, it's apparent that it wasn't meant to be dirty. They were teammates for a while. Also, the whole situation should've been over after Saturday, but the Royals started throwing at hitters again on Sunday. Fuck the Royals.
April 24th, 2015 at 11:28 AM ^
If I'm not mistaken, he's a middle infielder. The way to deal with him is to slide hard into him, not with intent to injure, but to send a message that it goes both ways and if you are going to play like an idiot, you'll be treated like an idiot.
Eric Byrnes defended the slide and said he was safe, but the thing is, if he had slid into the bag, he would have been obviously safe instead of probably safe after multiple viewings. His lead foot was a foot from the bag and it was his back leg that caught the bag. If he hits the bag with that front foot, he's safe. The other thing is that he was trying to break up a double play on a play where there was no chance of a double play. That's just stupid and dangerous for no reason.
I agree with your sentiment. The A's are A'ssholes.
April 24th, 2015 at 10:37 AM ^
"...I'm tired of seeing a team comprised of dudes that look like me consistently out-perform a team that spends twice as much on payroll for half the results."
Fixed it.
It is nice to read the objectivity in this thread as I was concerned there might be a slight bias against the Royals as they compete with the Tigers for the best record in baseball. Fortunately the posters of MGoBlog never take on a mob mentality.
You're welcome to defend them, but I'm going to assume you have nothing to stand on.
Put down the pitchfork Gaston.
Although the Royals will miss Sheilds presence in the clubhouse and Ventura might need some time to understand he has to remain cool while defending his players Baseball's unwritten code requires your pitcher to maintain order from the mound. The Royal's are doing nothing worng in defending each other and if anything this is bringing the clubhouse together.
Last nights jawing was brought on by the White Sox and although Ventura needs to enforce without losing his cool the issues that have resulted in out of the ordinary bench clearing have been more often the opponent then the Royals.
Having spent the better of 20 years as a doormat the posters in this thread are as annoyed as the rest of the American League that the Royals are carrying over the success from last year. When Alex Rios comes back this team could be much better then last year.
Tell me how this was brought on by the White Sox. This is awful Royals homerism at it's finest.
And yet there's one common thread to all the incidents the Royals have been involved in.
April 24th, 2015 at 10:25 AM ^
"You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you're the asshole"
-Raylan Givens
Your last sentence made me laugh. Thank you.
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is that they have a hard time "acting like they've been there before." They seem to act like spoiled children (at least lately) and will throw a fit if they think they're being treated unfairly, which is just about every series it seems.
April 24th, 2015 at 12:25 PM ^
they certainly acted like they'd been there before in the 2014 playoffs.
I honestly think they have gone full on heel. They want to play the villain. But remember how that worked for the Heat the first year...
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Didn't Ventura start the incident with Trout and this one with the White Sox? It seems like he gets mad when he grooves a pitch right down the middle and the batter lines it back at him...