Royal Pains

Being a Kansas City fan my whole life I of course root on the Royals. Being a Royals fan has had its up's and down's; mostly downs. As most fans know the boys in blue won the series in 85' beating the across state rivals in 7 games, which may have very well been the last "up" in the past two decades.

Kansas City fans have had it really hard the past few years, with the Royals finishing in or near the basement of the division and the league year after year. Royals come off a road-trip to the west coast with a record of 2-7 after getting roughed up by the A's, Mariners, and Angels. Fans also haven't had much to consistently rely on on field either. We trade good (not great) players for two or three average players. A player will begin to perform and poof, he's gone, traded for two players and a prospect. Some may say that getting young players is not a bad thing, and it's not, but when you never see those players come through the farm system it's hard to get excited about the trade. The Royals have done good things in the draft the last few years, but we are still waiting on the arrivals of players like Moustakas, or Hosmer.

Now don't get me wrong we did have a little excitement in the 2009 campaign with Mr. Zack Greinke winning the Cy Young award. Award well deserved, but this is 2010 and needless to say Grienke is'nt putting up Cy Young like numbers, but does'nt have a lot of offensive help on his outings either. Let's look for Zack to turn it up a notch the last 45 games and give us hope for next year.

The Yankee pinstripes are in town this weekend and as we speak beating up on the good guys. The Royals have had their struggles with the Yankee's this year supporting a 1-4 record with the next four being played at Kauffman this weekend. "We'll get it going with the bats." Manager Ned Yost told the Kansas City Star, "We've got guys who swing the bat too well (for this to continue). These things have a way of turning themselves around." Well let's hope they do just that, get things turned in the right direction, until next time..."Play like a champion."