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Tuesday, August 23, 7:07 PM ET
Bruce Chen vs. Brandon Morrow


Wednesday, August 24, 7:07 PM ET
Luke Hochevar vs. Ricky Romero


Thursday, August 25, 7:07 PM ET
Jeff Francis vs. Brett Cecil

They better sweep this one

rkid wrote:They better sweep this one

With our three best pitchers and against the team last in the Central. One lost would be a huge disappointment.

I'm actually looking forward to seeing the Royals. I haven't watched a lot of them this year but they've got a few great young players that I wanna see play.

I can't stand watching the Royals all their players stink (besides Hosmer), and have an owner who deserves an ass beating for being so cheap.

RaptorsInsider1 wrote:I can't stand watching the Royals all their players stink (besides Hosmer), and have an owner who deserves an ass beating for being so cheap.

Hosmer, Moustakas, Escobar, Butler, Gordon... that's not a bad collection of talent, albeit very young. Yes the Royals have been brutal in building a team for a very long time, but they've got some every day players right now. Even Melky and Francoeur deserve to be on the field, which is something I doubt you could've said about 7 starters for the Royals in any given year of the last decade.

I'm actually kind of looking forward to watching this team and seeing if I think it can progress swiftly.

Their rotation is terrible. Sweep.

I expect a lot of runs on both sides, good hitting team.

I love the Royals! Infact just a couple days ago I ordered me up a replica powder blue Bo Jackson jersey. And Kaufmann stadium is one of my fav parks in all of baseball.

Sweep would be nice, but I doubt it. The royals have actually been relatively tough on the jays. Though that's usually more so in K.C. I'll take 2 outta 3. Cecil probably get's beat.

satyr9 wrote:Hosmer, Moustakas, Escobar, Butler, Gordon... that's not a bad collection of talent, albeit very young. Yes the Royals have been brutal in building a team for a very long time, but they've got some every day players right now. Even Melky and Francoeur deserve to be on the field, which is something I doubt you could've said about 7 starters for the Royals in any given year of the last decade.

I'm actually kind of looking forward to watching this team and seeing if I think it can progress swiftly.

If they can add a few quality starters this offseason they could be a playoff team. Their bullpen is decent but they're rotation is just awful.

Hopefully Morrow can avoid the bad inning. I've noticed that the Royals can actually string together some hits and aren't completely terrible at times, having been stuck with a few Royals scattered on my fantasy teams and seeing their production come in bunches.

Damn I didn't know Bruce Chen was still in the league.

Banco wrote:Damn I didn't know Bruce Chen was still in the league.

I remember a recent start against us, he totally dominated us and we ending up losing despite Halladay also pitching a masterful game.

Yeah, we definitely should kill them, but you never know with this team.

Sometimes it's not the pitching that screws the Jays against bad teams, it's the run support. Can't win with 0 or 1 run support. We've had a couple of those against some bad teams this year, not just Oakland.

LLJ wrote:Sometimes it's not the pitching that screws the Jays against bad teams, it's the run support. Can't win with 0 or 1 run support. We've had a couple of those against some bad teams this year, not just Oakland.

I think those games are a result of people being out of the lineup. In Oakland people like Lind, Bautista, and Escobar (pretty much the heart of our lineup) were missing.

Tonight's lineup;

Yunel Escobar SS
Eric Thames LF
Jose Bautista RF
Adam Lind 1B
Edwin Encarnacion DH
Colby Rasmus CF
Brett Lawrie 3B
Jose Molina C
Mike McCoy 2B

MGD24 wrote:Tonight's lineup;

Yunel Escobar SS
Eric Thames LF
Jose Bautista RF
Adam Lind 1B
Edwin Encarnacion DH
Colby Rasmus CF
Brett Lawrie 3B
Jose Molina C
Mike McCoy 2B

they really love EE at the five. Love to see Lawrie and Rasmus moved around a little to see where they fit better with Jose for next year.

I think Rasmus and Thames are pretty interchangeable and the jays should experiment with swapping them at the 2 spot whenever one is hot.

And yeah, I'd give Lawrie a few games at the 4 spot especially when Lind is out or sitting.

Great start Morrow!!!!!!! FFS