re: Royals vs Cards 2015 rumble thread.

Drove down this morning.Rained most of the trip.Met friend at Legends.Dave And Buster's not open yet, so we had lunch at Granite City.Light rain for half of game then stopped.Sat in section 418.Ventura was good after 1st inning.Luckily, Wacha was better.About time Adams wakes up at the plate.Escobar almost made incredible bare handed catch on Molina flare.Carpenter homers yet again.Been best player on team.It was a good win.Went to team store while parking lot thinned out.Friend bought game used spring training St. Patrick's Day jersey and Moore signed book.More damn rain on drive back home.Had fun though.

Friend said someone close to Glass built the new soccer stadium at Legends.Is that true.Biggest advantage for Royals is Gordon can stay close to home.

That's awesome. Glad it was a good time. I was sitting there and told my wife that if it wasn't for the light rain, it would have got desperately humid. You could feel between rains the humidity rise then fall when the rain started again. It kind of kept things cooled down.

From our vantage point, Esky should have used his glove or at least tried. I was a little pissed when he tried to bare hand that ball. Extremely difficult because you know how much spin was on that ball.

Don't be modest about the cards hitting ability. They rang up a good pitcher yesterday. He wasn't good in the first inning but Ventura is a good pitcher. The Cards hitters were just better yesterday. They did what they had to do to secure a win.

Gordo on the other hand missed a golden opportunity with bases loaded and two outs. Royals have been money this year with RISP and two outs. Wacha made the pitches when he had to. So far this year, when kept down by good pitching, the Royals have come back and evened it out next time around. Hopefuly we'll see him again in St. louis.


Ok. Between 1 and 10, 1 being best and 10 worse, how would you rank the visit to Kauffman exluding the weather? Just curious. They wanted to build a new stadium downtown years ago and it fell through. I was kind of biased at the time and wanted to keep our old stadium location because it's easy in easy out and because of memories. Now I seem to be more open to the idea because of the Sprint Center location. It right across from the P&L district.

It would be a nightmare traffic wise. I would love to see it come back up for consideration. Unfortunately, with the upgrades done to the current stadium, I don't think it will come back around for a long time unless we get new owners that demand a new stadium. It would be cool though. If they did it, I'd like to see them go old school style. The current landscaping around Kauffman could use some help.

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Teams play again in a few weeks.I saw Guthrie give up 11 runs in 1 inning today.Yikes.Will Moore go get an ace starter?

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There are a couple high end starters rumored to go on the trading blocks. I could see Dayton going after one if the price is right. One only involves a pitcher in trade for 3 or 4 prospects.

Cueto from the Reds interests me the most and I think more realistically attainable because he's the One involving prospects. We have a few if Dayton is willing to trade them.

I think he will have to address the starting rotation at some point this year if he wants to go back to the post season. Cueto would be a great addittion and may resurge the starters. Competition among pitchers always helps.

Downtown stadiums are amazing, couldn't imagine it any other way.

Who are your good prospects you have for trade?The ones I used to know made the team or traded?I think the Cardinals need a rotation upgrade to win a World Series.I would be surprised if Cueto wasn't moved before trade deadline.

I'm not sure how long the lease is. I'm sure if there was a strong enough interest in a new stadium, they would figure thier way around the lease. I believe it's county ran. As long as it stayed in this county that is.

It is in a highly populated area. It's not located conveniently close to other businesses. I think when they built those stadiums, it was basically on the outskirts of the population or in between. KC, Independence, Raytown, Lee's Summit, Liberty, on the Missouri side all run into each other now.

As far as why it's in it's present location, it was built about the same time I was born. I'm sure it had to do more with land acquisition than population. I'm sure there were other factors.leading into this also. As was mentioned in another post, the original plans was to have a rolling roof for both stadiums. So having both stadiums in the same location was impoimportant. I don't know if they had the space for that if built downtown. KC was also a dead downtown the whole time I was growing up. Hardly anyone lived "downtown". Now that a lot of buildings are being turned into loft apartments, many people are starting to move back downtown. They even have a grocery store downtown now. If they moved at least the ballpark back downtown, it would be a major financial boost to downtown.

Speaking of attendance, did anyone see Spankee stadium yesterday? It was empty. Never thought I'd see it that empty for a 6pm game.

I went to the rain game. It was fun. The Royals won. I got drunk. Then I got wet. Then I continued drinking. Then I went home and tried to order a pizza. Then I realized that the fvcking Pizza Hut closest to my house doesn't deliver to my zip code. Then I got mad. Then a friend ordered from his phone so I could calm down. Then I ate pizza.

Boy do I miss being in the NL


Frick MLB for fricking us over