One week until MLB starts

[OG Hack Wilson]

whos excited

[Chamillitary Click]

Me.

[MistaNova]

Me.

[theremedy360]

Me.

[Lunatic]

Me.

[Twentytwofifty]

 

[TraceOneInfinite]

Yeah, I love this time of year.  Every team is optimistic, and every player who has underperformed in the past is expected to have a "breakout year".  The weather starts improving, spring comes in and baseball is a sign that summer is approaching.  Also on television they will usually start airing Field Of Dreams, Major League, and Bull Durham which really puts you in the baseball mood. 

Once training camp gets started for the NFL, and the Royals are well on their way to another 100 loss season I usually lose interest around July; but this time of year I'm always excited for baseball.

[MontrealCity's Most]

Yeah, I love this time of year.  Every team is optimistic, and every player who has underperformed in the past is expected to have a "breakout year".  The weather starts improving, spring comes in and baseball is a sign that summer is approaching.  Also on television they will usually start airing Field Of Dreams, Major League, and Bull Durham which really puts you in the baseball mood. 

Once training camp gets started for the NFL, and the Royals are well on their way to another 100 loss season I usually lose interest around July; but this time of year I'm always excited for baseball.

lol@ the kc remark

[TraceOneInfinite]

Yeah, I love this time of year.  Every team is optimistic, and every player who has underperformed in the past is expected to have a "breakout year".  The weather starts improving, spring comes in and baseball is a sign that summer is approaching.  Also on television they will usually start airing Field Of Dreams, Major League, and Bull Durham which really puts you in the baseball mood. 

Once training camp gets started for the NFL, and the Royals are well on their way to another 100 loss season I usually lose interest around July; but this time of year I'm always excited for baseball.

lol@ the kc remark

Yeah, it's becoming a tradition now in Kansas City that every year at this time we are bombarded with news stories about how Alex Gordon and Luke Hochever are all set to have break out years and finally live up to their #1 draft potential and turn around the franchise.  Then, the season actually starts and they have a hard time even maintaining their spot on the major league roster.  Last year Alex was sent down after just a few weeks playing, lol

[Javier]

Every team has that.  Yankees have Martin in "his best shape of his life". Dodgers Kemp and Lopes are "having a really great relationship".  Spring Traing and Pre-season in general is the time for these sports writer to write about something because they don't have intelligent shit to say about their team.  Some of it is cool insight, but it's very annoying when they try to build as the reason why X player with have an amazing year. 

[DJ SUGAFREE QUIK]

Yeah, I love this time of year.  Every team is optimistic, and every player who has underperformed in the past is expected to have a "breakout year".  The weather starts improving, spring comes in and baseball is a sign that summer is approaching.  Also on television they will usually start airing Field Of Dreams, Major League, and Bull Durham which really puts you in the baseball mood.  

Once training camp gets started for the NFL, and the Royals are well on their way to another 100 loss season I usually lose interest around July; but this time of year I'm always excited for baseball.

lol@ the kc remark

Yeah, it's becoming a tradition now in Kansas City that every year at this time we are bombarded with news stories about how Alex Gordon and Luke Hochever are all set to have break out years and finally live up to their #1 draft potential and turn around the franchise.  Then, the season actually starts and they have a hard time even maintaining their spot on the major league roster.  Last year Alex was sent down after just a few weeks playing, lol

Its a shame of what happened to the Royals franchise.  I liked watching them in the 80's.  They had cool uniforms, George Brett, Willie Wilson who might have been the reason I switch hitted in baseball, Mc Rae, Frank White[hardly remember him] Quiz, Splitorff, Bud Black.  MLB was way more competitive & better in the 80's.  There was a lot of likable teams back then.   And ESPN's 2 favorite teams weren't much of a factor then 

Since you're probably living in KC, what do the sports fans think of the Kings now?  Do they want them back or do they want the NHL back or neither?

[TraceOneInfinite]

Its a shame of what happened to the Royals franchise.  I liked watching them in the 80's.  They had cool uniforms, George Brett, Willie Wilson who might have been the reason I switch hitted in baseball, Mc Rae, Frank White[hardly remember him] Quiz, Splitorff, Bud Black.  MLB was way more competitive & better in the 80's.  There was a lot of likable teams back then.   And ESPN's 2 favorite teams weren't much of a factor then  

Since you're probably living in KC, what do the sports fans think of the Kings now?  Do they want them back or do they want the NHL back or neither?

Wow.. no offense, but you must be pretty old to be remembering those Royals teams of the 80's, and players like Frank White and Hal McCrae.  I am 28 and even I didn't start becoming aware of Royals baseball until the late 80's/early 90's when guys like Bo Jackson and Danny Tartabul were the star players (although George Brett was still around then).

I do think the Royals ugliest seasons are going to be behind them for a while, because we were ranked the #1 Minor League system by Baseball prospectus.  So names like Moustakas, Hosmer, Montgomery, are going to be joining the Royals in the near future.   (Or I'm just guilty of that spring training optimism that everyone catches this time of year)

As for the Kings franchise; you really never hear anything about them around here.  They weren't very well supported when they were hear, and they were easily forgotten when they were gone.  This is really a College basketball city, with a lot of MU Tigers and KU Jayhawks fanatics.  Because the kind of sports fans that really run and invest in sports in this city are mostly those older white guys who think NBA players are all overpaid and that it's not a team game, and that they don't try hard, and that kind of talk you hear in the Midwest; which is why I was surprised that the Supersonics came to Okalahoma (Thunder).  

I'm not one of those people, myself I don't care much about college sports, and certainly prefer the NBA.  I didn't even bother to watch Kansas lose in the elite 8.

[DJ SUGAFREE QUIK]

Its a shame of what happened to the Royals franchise.  I liked watching them in the 80's.  They had cool uniforms, George Brett, Willie Wilson who might have been the reason I switch hitted in baseball, Mc Rae, Frank White[hardly remember him] Quiz, Splitorff, Bud Black.  MLB was way more competitive & better in the 80's.  There was a lot of likable teams back then.   And ESPN's 2 favorite teams weren't much of a factor then  

Since you're probably living in KC, what do the sports fans think of the Kings now?  Do they want them back or do they want the NHL back or neither?

Wow.. no offense, but you must be pretty old to be remembering those Royals teams of the 80's, and players like Frank White and Hal McCrae.  I am 28 and even I didn't start becoming aware of Royals baseball until the late 80's/early 90's when guys like Bo Jackson and Danny Tartabul were the star players (although George Brett was still around then).

I do think the Royals ugliest seasons are going to be behind them for a while, because we were ranked the #1 Minor League system by Baseball prospectus.  So names like Moustakas, Hosmer, Montgomery, are going to be joining the Royals in the near future.   (Or I'm just guilty of that spring training optimism that everyone catches this time of year)

As for the Kings franchise; you really never hear anything about them around here.  They weren't very well supported when they were hear, and they were easily forgotten when they were gone.

1st season I started watching MLB was in 1983, I remember the George Brett pine tar incident in that year.  Hopefully the Royals can stop trading their players to the major market teams, & mr. walmart would stop being cheap & pay the players.  I checked on basketball-reference.com reading KC Kings attendance & it was always at the bottom 6 or 7.  Only reached 11th one season only.  Maybe St. Louis should be the missouri team to get another team.