Kansas City Royals will probably lose their 100th game today

[enigami]

Playing a double header with Detroit. If not today, this week. This will be their 3rd 100 season loss in 4 years. A new record I think for an established franchise.

Sad to see what this once proud franchise has become. Royals fans ( I grew up one ) You can vent here.

[evlbstrd]

1. Goddammit!

I wear my Royals colors proudly, and get constant flack for it. My position is this: they were my team when they were great, and they're still my team. I held out with the Chiefs through the miserable 80's in the same way.

[cssmall]

3. Same way with the St. Louis Cardinals.

I will always wear the hat even they're 102-60 or 60-102. I don't guve a flying rip.

[evlbstrd]

The Cards have been pretty good for, what, the last 10 or more years?

I love the rivalry. Just wish there was more to it than re-playing 1985.

[cssmall]

7. No. . . they've done well since about 97 or so. . .

They were good through the 80s, died near 90 and then began getting better in the late 90s. It's all cyclical. I love the Royals and like Cubs-Cards, Royals-Cards is a great, friendly rivalry of people that love and understand baseball. Not like that dreadfully disgusting thing in Boston and New York.

[evlbstrd]

11. The NY-Boston thing has festered for 100 years.

It's ugly to watch. But 1985 was exciting as hell. It was great watching fans of both teams driving back and forth I-70 for the games. How often can fans of both teams in a Series do that?

[cssmall]

14. Very rarely. I just think the whole NY-Boston rivalry is bad for baseball

because it is so violent and ugly. I know 85 was fun. My dad loved it and was conflicted but because he was a Cards fan from a kid (he also made a tryout but had to go to Vietnam), he was all about the Cards.

[enigami]

12. I wish there was something there too

I grew up in KC. Lived here throughout the 70's and 80's. Lived through all the Glory Days. Then I moved to St.Louis. Fell in love with the Cards. I live back in KC now. Still Love my Cards, But it still irks me to see what has happened to the Royals.

[cssmall]

15. It's just such a great rivalry.

As long as the game is played well, no one gets mad. Yet, feelings get hurt a bit, but it's not like other rivalries in sports. That's why I like the Cards-Cubs and Cards-Royals. If they were any good now, that intrastate rivalry in interleague play would rock!

[enigami]

17. No doubt

even now, when the Cards are in KC, The stadium sells out.

[evlbstrd]

5. dupe. delete.

[cssmall]

2. As a Cards fan, but mainly a lover of baseball, I always loved the 80s

when the Royals were actually good (I am fairly young, mid-20s). I remember George Brett, Bret Saberhagen and the like. The guys that played hard and gritty and did there best every pitch. Now, it's all bullshit. I see a lot of the same things in the KC Royals that I see in the TB Devil Rays (in their farm system at one time), they get a lot of talent and then sqaunder it on big names for the big leagues to put butts in the seats for their greedy ass owners. And, the said part is: KC and TB are the two teams BECAUSE of the way their owners spend during a period were every onwer gets 70 million or so before the season even starts. That FUCKING burns me up. That's even before Radio/TV contracts. Source is Jayson Stark saying that the owner of a team who does not spend enough money for his team to at least be competitive should be forced out. Honestly, I agree.

[evlbstrd]

6. The Royals are now run like Wal-Mart.

David Glass is a lousy owner. Only his friendship with the late, lamented Ewing Kauffman got him the team. At least Mr. K. was generous with his fortune outside of baseball.

[cssmall]

9. Yeah, and all Glass cares about is making another damn buck.

I dislike Wal-Mart and Glass equally. He ruined the Royals franchise and just made Wal-Mart worse. He's weasly, greedy motherfucker.

[tridim]

4. They should have never fired Hal McRae

Temper aside, he was a kick ass manager. 94 was the last year they had any sort of chance.

[evlbstrd]

8. McRae was a firey guy.

I liked him, too.

[cssmall]

10. Second that. I remember hearing stories of McRae's playing days.

I also remember his sons that were pretty damn good in their own right. Not power hitters, but I think we understand why now. :eyes:

[evlbstrd]

13. His son does pre- and post-game analysis, and some in-game color.

Bright guy who admits he was never going to be a star.

[cssmall]

16. Yeah, but he was gritty and had his heart in the right spot.

And, that's all that matters to me. And, I loved Brian McRae, personally. I thought he was a hell of player, and he probably had more ethics in his little finger than most of the dopers from his time period.

[evlbstrd]

18. He's got my respect, and does a great job on the broacasts.