Posted by: Sean DeCoursey in Royals
Mike Jacobs. I’m not going to waste your time with a big buildup on what GMDM’s biggest miss of the past offseason was, it’s Mike Jacobs. Jacobs himself has actually played about the way we would expect him to. He has a bad platoon split, hits bad pitches a long way, strikes out a lot, doesn’t walk much, and is absolutely unplayable in the field. Anywhere.
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Posted by: Sean DeCoursey in Royals
Sorry about the cutely mispelled title of this one. The game was just to awesome and I’m too high on endorphins not to do it. I also have to give another shout out to the military half-price discount. It’s definitely allowing me to go to more games this summer than I would otherwise.
Just got back from the K a little bit ago. Went with a huge group of friends (I think there were 22 of us total - we went through a box of burgers, four packs of brats, and a couple cases in the parking lot) and to be honest, going into the ninth, the actual game experience had kind of paled in comparison to the tailgating party.
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Posted by: Sean DeCoursey in Royals
The headline kind of says it all about this deal. Rany has written a dissenting opinion on the wisdom of this deal, while Clark Foster over at Royals Authority is supportive of the move. I come down somewhere between the two camps. In a vacuum, this is a good trade for the Royals. In context, I’m not so sure.
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