Rough week

7 games, 7 days, 4 vs. the Yankees and 3 vs. the Twins; looking at that schedule you probably wouldn't have expected the Royals to fair very well, but the past seven games have been beyond pathetic. Outscored 69-25, we were outscored by almost 20 more runs than we scored; that is to say that we averaged losing by 6 runs over the course of a week. Our best performance by a starting pitcher was Kyle Davies dominant 5 1/3, 4ER performance against a Yankees line-up that included the murderers row of Thames, Curtis and Pena. It was so bad we released a reliever with an ERA of 9.76 to bring up a reliever who had previously posted an ERA of 12.00 at the big league level. The week started off when our best player, having his best year and potentially a very valuable trading chip slammed into a wall and ended all of that immediately. It got even better when we learned that our $12 million pitcher, who has been obviously hurt for over a year now, finally decided to kick the tough-guy act and go under the knife, severely limiting the possibility of him ever again pitching another meaningful inning as a Royal due to the well documented organizational incompetence. It was a historically bad week and if you watched any of the games you know that it is getting pretty painful to be a Royal right now; The K was filled with more Twins than Royals' fans, the team looks to be way more concerned about post game dinner reservations than the outcome and yet through all of this there is actually a silver lining...

The only organization more pathetic than the Royals is coming to town for a four game series

Read this childishly giddy assessment of how help is on the way

Bravo to Dayton for pulling the trigger on the Callaspo & Pods deals, it doesn't really matter who we got in return because we won't miss a step at the Majors and in the process we got Younger, Cheaper and Potentially-er. However, even more encouraging were the words that came from Moore and Yost following the Posednik trade. Hearing this is the one thing that might actually get me to tune in for the rest of the year:

“It allows us to put Alex Gordon in left field and just left him go,” manager Ned Yost said. “It also opens up a spot for Mitch Maier to get more playing time. Both of those things are important.”

You are a DAMN GENIUS Ned! Here is also what Dayton said in regards to moving more players before the deadline:

“Guys in the final year of their contract, we’ll be more aggressive with potentially moving them,” Moore said.

He gets it, cross your fingers, we might be ending the Willie and/or Jose eras in KC. Pretty please with sugar on top! And just to top it off he added this little confirmation that younger players having monster seasons in the minors need to be given a shot:

“It’s important to get Kila on our club and create opportunities,” Moore said. “I’m not saying it going to happen (today), but we expect it to happen very shortly.”

Now if all of this falls into place and we get a completely new look Royals over the next two months of the season how can you not be at least a little bit excited to tune in or log on and view a ball game. I can live with one Rick Ankiel if that means I get to see Gordon and Maier in the outfield, Kila at DH/1B and a new face or even two in the starting rotation.