Aww yeah. We're gonna make a run for the wildcard!

We can do it!

RobbieFal: Aww yeah. We're gonna make a run for the wildcard!

Wildcard...what's that again?

/Devil Rays fan
//The Yankees can't beat them this year though

Ha, its a good thing my Padres are smoking the toughest division in baseball.

Oh wait.

Please don't crush our carefully misplaced optimism.

Was at Saturday's game in Oakland.

/Disapointed
//Very Disapointed

kind of bum that my last game at busch, the cards lost to the expos (nationals, whatever...)
also was too stoned to put FILM in the damn camera!
/moved to new york
//ergo, won't get to see october ball
///yankees suck

Duke sucks.

Hey, if they get their 40 wins in a row, they can compete for the division title...

... in the NL west.

Statistics usually bore me.

But when they're used to show the level of utter suckingness of a team I don't care about in a sport that's really just overpaid white men suntanning, I like it.

I like it a lot...

Than what do the Royals do? Christ, they're terrible. At least Duke is a powerhouse basketball team with championships out the ass, the Royals got NUTTIN'.

Yes, but we still pwned the Cr4ds back in '85.

wow. the royals found a team they can beat. could the athletics be the laughing stock of the league now? ...oh wait, you say they were before? ok

Somebody always has to be last.

/Just glad its not my Tigers, this year anyway.
//whoo hoo 2 games away from .500

wow, feel sorry for the a's

They've played 122. They'd have to win every one of their remaining games, and still have no chance of breaking even.

Wow.

Good job, A's. Cap off a crappy homestand by losing 2 straight to the Royals.

/long live George Brett

Against Oakland too - not bad.

/Oakland A minuses

Yeah, Moe, that team sure did suck last night. They just plain sucked! I've seen teams suck before, but they were the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked! I gotta go Moe my damn weiner kids are listening.

Sucks to be an A's fan right now.

/share an office with an A's fan
//sucks to be him right now
///Go D'backs
////slashies

awesome headline.

I live in Cleveland and am an Indians fan, and was lucky enough to see the tribe take on the Royals. They truly are the greatst show on earth, albeit for the wrong reasons. You can tell half of them don't speak the same langauge, and most of them just joined the team or will be leaving the team soon. The just sort of sit quietly in the dugout until it's their turn to go not catch balls efficiently.

/Go Tribe!

Semi ThreadJack -

The NL West is pathetic. Their Automatic Playoff Bid should be yanked and the NL should have two WC teams this year. It could be the Cards, and the Braves, and whomever manages to scratch out the top two spots in the WC race (turning out to be a real dogfight).

Things work out, you could have the Cards, Braves, Phils, and Nats in the Playoffs under this system. I likes...

/NL East is the toughest conference in the Leauge. Whomever finishes 2nd will get the WC and promptly lose to the Birds.

My room-mate is a huge Royals fan - he watches every game.

For those that don't know, the Royals triple-A team the Omaha Royals is actually a pretty swell team.

Argh! My A's had that game and it was painful to watch. Extra innings I figured would be no problem but I figured wrong. Worse than losing to the hapless Royals is the fact the foul and fetid Yankees are right on the A's butt in the wildcard race. I swear if the A's lose the wild card to the Yankees I'll do something violent and weird. Then again the way things are going for me these days, violence and weirdness is almost inevitable.

I bet some people remember when the Royals rocked!

But those same people remember gas being 10-cents a gallon.

//hinting the Royals have sucked for a very long time.

My child-hood team. One of the best palces to watch a game anywhere. They've petty much sucked since Ewing Kaufman died.

Even the Devil Rays are better (51-73).

/will sleep well tonight

The Royals are only 4 wins away from assuring the fact that they'll do better than the '03 Tigers. What a sad season that was.

/Anyone remember Cecil Fielder?

IF they can win two more straight games, they'll tie for the best-ever winning streak following a 19-or-more losing streak...

61 Phillies and 75 Mets are the other two 19-or-more loss streak broken by 4-game-win streak teams.

can't wait till my Yankees play them next month!



/ Yanks will win the wild card

Its just payback, really. Two weeks ago, the Athletics pasted the Royals something like 15-1 at Kaufman. That was a sad game. :(

Kecthup keeps winning the damn hot dog race, too. What the heck happened to relish???

/It's one of those dumb things they show between innings on the bigscreen

2005-08-22 03:11:04 PM jayhawk88

The Royals are 40-82 as of this morning, leaving 40 games left for them in the season. If they win every game from here on out they will still be 40 games under .500.
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Uh, what?

Hmmmm, I think this means that the Yanks are now tied for the wildcard with Oaktown, pending tonight's game against the BlewJays.

/still hoping for the AL East title, Wildcard is for the RedSox to get excited about.

Why the heck did this get the obvious tag? Perhaps "follow-up" since we don't have a boring tag.

isnt cecil fielder on the run? something about gambling debts and thugs? maybe mcdonalds is trying to take away his bic mac promotion money?

wait...no one whining about MLB's lack of a salary cap yet?

well, excellent. let's keep it that way. the royals don't suck because they're cheap, they suck because they got rid of jermaine dye, johnny damon, and carlos beltran while getting absolutely *nothing* of value in return. i mean, when al baird turns jermaine dye into neifi freakin' perez, you can't possibly tell me that it's only finances that are keeping the royals from the big trophy.

The Royals are winning games now? Maybe going to see next Sunday's game in Da Bronx won't be such a bore.

/hoping to see the Yankees go 0-2 in games I've attended
//Yanks will choke vs. Oak
///Go Red Sox!

haemaker: Got to give credit to the Mets. Not far out of the WC, even if they are last in their division.

The Yanks won't make it this year. And I'm a fan, and I believe this. They won't get the wild card.

It will be interesting to see how the Yanks/Sox/Angels/A's thing pans out.

Odds are the Yankees won't win the division. Sure, all it would take is a mild tear, but they're showing no sign that they're capable of that, or that the Sox are gonna slump that bad. When it comes to the A's and Angels, I don't see the Yanks or Sox keeping up in the Wild Card, unless maybe Schilling and Foulke both come back in top form (unlikely). Neither the Angels nor the A's have any real holes in their roster. The A's are questionable, considering their current mini-slump and terrible first half, but I don't believe you can go on the kind of run they did if you seriously lack something, kind of like the Red Sox in August 2004--they just didn't have any weak spots. They were just seriously underperforming at the start. Both Anaheim and Oakland own the Yanks and Sox in team ERA, which is what counts in September and October.

I'm a Sox fan, BTW, and the Sox pitching situation does not look good for the postseason.

king cranium maximus IV: the royals don't suck because they're cheap, they suck because they got rid of jermaine dye, johnny damon, and carlos beltran while getting absolutely *nothing* of value in return.


And that has nothing to do with them being cheap? Them not being able to afford the salaries of the stars they created has everything to do with that. Sure, Wal*Mart Man could spend more, or Baird could actually do his job and get some trades with at least prospect value in return for the big guns whose asking price just went through the roof, but your assertion that finances have nothing to do with it is just puzzling. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot wrong with the Royals, and a lot of it has nothing to do with their payroll. Their farm system is almost depleted, which is all but impossible to do with a team that has sucked this much for this long. But Baird has done it. What money they do spend on free agents is completely wasted on washed-up guys who were never that great in the first place and barring a miracle they will continue to suck and be in eternal rebuilding mode for far longer than their remaining fans have the patience for.

mar19: Amen!

Why couldn't the poor Royals have just sucked in peace, anonymously like the other 50% of MLB out there... :(