Carlos Beltran The HOFer
I don’t really want to talk about the Royals making Sam Deduno look like an ace, so I am leaving that to someone else. For today I would like to talk about how things have been changing for several…Read More
Royals Trades: Context and Impact
It may have been a week ago when I saw Bob Dutton from the Kansas City Star answering reader questions on Twitter when someone was asking him about the Wil Myers trade. Part of their line of questioning…Read More
Carlos And Raul
A. Bartlett Giamatti once wrote that baseball is designed to break your heart. The older I get, the more I find this to be true. Your favorite team can break your heart by losing and sometimes, if you’re…Read More
Finding Royals Fame
I think one of the things you have to do as a fan when your team stinks is look at the glory days and remember when things were better. Reminisce about the pennants flying, the game winning hits, the clutch…Read More
I-70 Series Preview Cardinals at Royals June 22-24
This weekend the I-70 series has the defending champions making their way west to Kansas City. Last week the two teams played in St. Louis with the Royals taking that series two games to one. Records:…Read More
Who Will Be the Royals Best Player in 2013?
I waste an inordinate amount of time staring down the statistical columns of the Baseball Reference web…Read More
Kansas City Baseball Vault: Rene Lachemann Reflects on KC; Royals Mount Rushmore Revealed
Download the Full mp3 here or listen in the embedded player above. We had a pretty fun show on Thursday,…Read More
Wil Myers is Not Afraid to Get His Hands Dirty
We all heard the good news last week that Wil Myers performance had forced the Royals to promote him…Read More
Why Does 2012 Feel Different in Kansas City?
Ever since the Royals took a perpetual downturn following the strike-shortened 1994 season, Royals fans…Read More
Kansas City Royals Swap Meet
For some reason, I found myself on the Royals fan page on Facebook yesterday. Typically, my medium of…Read More
An Education In Royalty
I officially take charge of my student-teaching classes this week. It’s the culmination of my college…Read More
Chasing Balboni
The man steps in, uniform tugging at the wrong contours of his body. He’s ready to hit and as…Read More
Worst Team Ever?
This off-season a lot of commentators declared the 2011 incarnation of the Royals to be the worst team…Read More
Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
At this time, I would like to announce that Jon Twibell has decided to resign from his contributor position…Read More
Baseball Side of FanSided (1/15)
Time to take a stroll around the MLB blogs of FanSided and look back on what has been a busy week in…Read More
Crown Gems: My Faulty Memory, Luke Hochevar, and Quality Artwork
In this edition of Crown Gems; re-examining my memory of the days leading up to the 2006 draft, some…Read More
Royals Rotten Decade (2004)
During the 2000s, no major league team lost more games than the Kansas City Royals. It was a decade…Read More
Royals Rotten Decade (2003)
During the 2000s, no major league team lost more games than the Kansas City Royals. It was a decade…Read More
Royals Rotten Decade (2002)
During the 2000s, no major league team lost more games than the Kansas City Royals. It was a decade…Read More
Royals Rotten Decade (2001)
During the 2000s, no major league team lost more games than the Kansas City Royals. It was a decade…Read More












