I wondered why there was a slight delay with a lot of the crowd pointing at something. Now I know what it was....stoopid Miserians

No reason for the Royals to drop one tonight with their Ace on the mound against a 27 year old rookie

Now if only the damm Tribe can win one vs the division leader.. Have them watch some video of the Royals vs Detroit so they can get a clue on how its done....BOOOMMMMM...

Damn, Shields looks like shit tonight.

Yeah. He pretty much didnt have it from the get go.

The Royals to eschew standard operating procedure for baseball and go with the following approach when Shields is pitching.

1) Use Chris Getz as the starting pitcher. For the sheer bizarre nature of this move and the high probability he will injure himself some how, this is a genius move. Here's why: All we are trying to do here people is buy some time to get Shields in the zone. On days when Getz is hurt, activate Giavotella. Gio is so short that no one will be able to deal with his lack of stature on the mound and it will guarantee he keeps his pitches down in the zone. Either of these two should be able to buy us and inning or two on shock value alone.

2) While the crew mentioned above is pitching, start Shields throwing in the bullpen with the bullpen catcher aggressively berating him and intentionally short hopping throws to him or returning the ball by throwing it way over his head. Add George Brett standing directly behind him telling and re-telling the Spring Training poop story in his ear and ole Jamie should be nice and fired up.

3) Line up all the inactive players in the bullpen and make Shields run the gauntlet to get to the mound. Once he arrives at the mound, a swift kick and sweaty hug from Moose and it should be "Go Time"!

It would be great if the Royals for once, would not get shut out by a guy making his major league debut.

Terrible game. Yost should have pulled JS in the 4th. Pretty clear he did not have it tonight but it is really frustrating when your "Ace" does not bring it against a rookie and the offense crawls in a hole.

Yick....

What an abortion of a game.

Salvage the series.

That was a case of cockiness by both the team and the fans. No way will we lose to an unproven rookie with Big Game James on the bump. WRONG. No time to get cocky yet, there is still alot of work to do..

I agree, I think Royals were getting a little ahead of themselves. Hopefully that knocked a bit of common sense back into them.

Need this one tonight.

Can't be losing 2 out of 3 to Minnesota at home.

Who is pitching...Duffy...Chen. Guess I could look it up..They wont lose tonight. Last nite was arrogant cockiness catching up with them. Hell it happens to KU hoops it sure can happen to the Royals.

Its Duffy
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=..._kc&c_id=kc

THE RETURN OF DUFFY.

I wish I was going tonight. He might get shelled, but I'd still like to see him pitch.

Don't get too hopeful. After watching the piles of crap the Indians have dropped the last couple of games my dreams of a division title are 100% gone. If they could somehow sneak into one of the Wild Card spots it would be an absolute surprise. It all starts with Salazar tonight to get them out of this funk