Game Date: April 15, 2009
Cleveland @ Kansas City
Indians 5, Royals 4 / Box Score
WP: Lewis (1-0), LP: Farnsworth (0-2), SV: Wood (1)
KC Home Runs: Jacobs (2)
Royals Record: 5-4 / Record in April: 5-4
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Game #9
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Bruce Chen Profile
Remember Bruce Chen—the guy who was 13-10 with a 3.83 ERA in 2003 with Baltimore? The Royals signed him to a Minor League deal back in March. The Omaha World Herald is running a nice profile about him called Comeback Starts in Omaha that you might find interesting.
Coming off elbow surgery, he hasn’t pitched in a couple of years until the WBC last month. He says that his fastball is in the mid-80s (yikes), but he never threw hard.
Here’s what Omaha pitching coach Tom Burgmeier says about him: “I liked what I saw in spring training. Left-handed, has a way above-average curveball. Big-league experience helps. He obviously knows what he's doing out there.”
Sounds like he’ll be in the starting rotation in Omaha.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Personnel Moves
The Royals claimed Travis Metcalf off waivers from the Rangers and placed him on 40-man roster. They assigned him to Omaha.
Esteban German signed with the Rangers. I hope he’s able to stick with them.
Mike Sweeney made the Mariners’ roster. How cool is that?
365 Days Late, But Late is Better Than Never
Cox Communications finally got a clue and reached an agreement today with FSN to broadcast all 140 scheduled games in Omaha, Wichita, and Topeka.
I don’t see anything in the article about Cox complaining about the extra cost to broadcast the extra 40 games or the ridiculousness of there only being 25% of their customer base who watches sports (as was the case in their Omaha market). So, let’s give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they actually heard enough complaints that they finally decided to do something about it.
Too bad they lost me as a customer in the process.
Splittorff Returns to KC
Paul Splittorff had to go back to Kansas City after struggling through the television broadcast yesterday. Frank White will take his spot in the booth. Here’s to hoping that Splitt is able to overcome his health concerns soon so he can return to the booth.
Cox Cable Still Not Showing 140 Games in Omaha
Last year at this time, I wrote about how irritated I was with Cox Communications in the Omaha area because they opted not to show 40 of the 140 Royals games that FSN-Kansas City scheduled to broadcast. Cox is the only cable or satellite provider in the area that doesn’t show the full schedule.
According to an article in the Omaha World Herald a couple of days ago, FSN-Kansas City and Cox are in negotiations regarding the other 40 games, but that was the case all of last season as well and it never happened. According to the article in the OWH, here is what’s Kristin Peck, Cox vice president for public and government affairs in Omaha, is saying this year:
“We know that there are some pretty passionate Royals fans. The issue that we have is that the sports programming is very expensive. Our research tells us that 25 percent of our viewers are sports fans and the others don't watch any. As we make decisions on programming, we have to consider all of our customers.”
Fair enough. Cox had decisions to make; so did I as a customer. So I switched to DirecTV and now I’ll see all 140 games. If you want to see all 140 games in the Omaha market, you might want to stop waiting for Cox. Just make the switch and enjoy the games.
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Situational Lefty
Jim Thome hits fifty-six points lower (.240 vs. .296) against lefties than he does righties in his career, but yet neither Moore nor Hillman believe we need a situational lefty. I don’t get it.
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