Royals Morning Sickness

As Royals fans go these days its pretty tough to wake-up and read the morning paper and see what's happening with the team. Your stomach starts to churn a little bit, then come the shooting migraine-like splitting headaches, blurred vision, loss of motor control - more or less like a hangover but without the night of good times to remember. Here's how my list looks:

#1 - Yuni is fined for dropping a pop-up??? This is what management decides is appropriate action for a Major League Baseball team; fining players for errors because of bad technique. It's okay for Jason Kendall to drop pop-ups so long as he uses proper technique. What's next, fining Rick Ankiel for too many swings and misses? Meche walked 7 yesterday, doesn't that look just as bad as dropping a pop-up, Gil write a check for a mil, your making the team look bad. There was a real easy solution to this, START Mike Aviles until he drops a pop-up trying to catch it between the legs. Does no one realize that its these types of things that make you look like a pathetic organization? This was what caused my shooting headache.

#2 - The Soria blown save. This one was about as bad a loss as you could have in terms of demoralizing a fan. Everything went right, huge comeback, big hits, taking the starter off the hook, solid performance from Tejada and then Soria comes in and gives up back-to-back homers. I could hear grown men weeping throughout the KC area, the worst part is there is no one to get mad at, the feeling that maybe you should stop caring and grow-up sets in a little deeper. This was the cause of my frequent trips to the bath room.

#3 - Zach Grienke box scores. There have been so many recent articles detailing how bad the Royals have performed in his starts that its not worth recounting but there is just no better sign of how hopeless the team is than having a losing record when this guy starts. You read the box score and wonder if its a joke, but its not and it really isn't funny. This leads to blurry vision.

#4 - The lack of big hits. How many times have you wanted to throw things while watching the offense squander opportunity after opportunity. With the one exception during the Soria-blown-save-game, last week has been glaring evidence that we still do not have a big bat in the line-up. I have a real loss of motor control and my remote control, cell phone and computer won't make it through another stretch like this.

The worst part about all of this is that you know its going to be like this until the end of September, granted some days will be better than others but its not going away anytime soon.