Check and mate.

He thinks this is about the stadium.

My god. This could be really cruel.

Please sign my petition to make Royals baseball a war crime:

Get a grip.

I’ve written and binned at least five newsletters tonight. I’m salty.

This game has been like a constant stream of bleach on my eyeballs. Someone please finish this.

I stand by my statement.

He’s looked so good this year. Gotta hang with him.

I get playing the matchups. It’s how Q manages his bullpen. But I think it’s a grave mistake to pull Daniel Lynch IV after just 12 pitches for John Schreiber.

This is one of the more putrid displays of baseball I’ve seen. And I’ve seen a lot.

Can the Royals cash in the Manfred Man? Take the under.

Burn everything down!!!

Holy shit. Meatball city. Absolute baseball brutality.

The closer has walked three batters in a 1-0 game. It’s not what you want.

It isn’t good.

I think you’re being too kind!

For me, the most entertaining part of the whole Salvy/Q kerfuffle was the reddit thread where people were actively pushing for Q to be fired and for Eric Hosmer to be the manager.

Royals have made a bunch of moves this morning. Tolbert and Spence down. Díaz and Black up. McArthur to the 60-day IL.

I have to worry about Arsenal AND Salvador Perez today? It’s too much for a Sunday morning.

Oh…

Hell, where were they on Thursday?

Headline from the Kansas City Star that reads “Royals hit new low with Saturday’s blowout loss at Yankee Stadium. Skid now at 6.”

If someone thought today’s #Royals game represented “a new low” I have to wonder where the hell they’ve been most of these last 35 years.

26. Gotta get the queen.

A six-game losing streak. It’s still not what you want!

A five-game losing streak. It’s not what you want!

Abolish the 8th inning!

This adds up…

I want to believe, but their next stop on this road trip is three in the house of horrors that is New Yankee Stadium. I suppose it could be a good sign that Pasquantino and Caglianone are warming up in time to take advantage of a short porch and the jet stream that pushes balls out to right. Witt is finding his extra base hit groove and Perez finally locked in. Maybe this offense explodes for something like 30 runs in the Bronx over the next three games.

Probably going to fall a little short on the run total, but I’m feelin’ good about what I wrote today. You should subscribe!

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This pretentious, ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, “What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn’t He have rested on that day, too?”