Category Archives: Royals

Kansas City: Premier Destination For Portly, Imprisoned Baseball Fans

Don’t you just hate it when you really have your heart set on catching the Red Sox/Royals series, and then you go and get busted for “interference with official acts and violation of a protective order”? Yeah, us too! I … Continue reading

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Royals win fourth in a row; still own second-worst record in majors. Bravo, guys.

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Royals Fans Celebrate Greinke Achievement With Stuttering, Faux-Cyrillic Signage

Man, we hope these folks kept the reciept from the Novelty Letter Shoppe…someone sold them some bum “K” panels.

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Reason #6 To Continue Watching Royals: Betancourt Can Expel Baseballs From His Benchwarmer

This follows the fine tradition of Royals players not only playing like crap, but…well, you see where we’re going with this. Royals BaseBowel: True. Brown. Tradition.

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Royals Fail In Baseballing, Excel In Good Ol’ American-ing

This is a photo I took myself at game 2 of today’s Angels/Royals twofer. As you can see, a Kansas City resident is proudly digging into his Sheridan’s custard in an attempt to win… a free t-shirt. Bravo, be-sunglassed competitive … Continue reading

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Underwhelming Royals ‘Hitter’ Guillen Feels Guilty Over Salary, Almost Promises To Give Some Back

Been out to a Royals game lately? If so, you know that outfielder Jose Guillen — that erstwhile slugger signed by the team to a ridiculous 3-year, $36 million contract — is hardly living up to his reputation. What he … Continue reading

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KC Star Threatens Vengeance Upon Readership With Ominous Front Page Warning

Surely the intention of this headline was to urge patience for a future ball game, but it comes off as something Snidely Whipflash would say while shaking his fist after his latest plot has been foiled:

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Defiant Royals Aficionado Creates Saddest Fan Video Ever

KC’s hometown baseballers are not known for anything resembling “winning.” But that’s not going to stop Royals fans from spending valuable time manufacturing meticulously created videos to boost fan morale. Here’s a particularly sad one, set to the karaoke staple … Continue reading

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435 South Still Poisoning Local Minds With Unreadable Prose, Mephistophelian Commercial Focus

Back in our State of the Line days, yours truly turned a mocking critical eye to 435 South, the execrably bad lifestyle magazine of Leawood and the tonier portions of Overland Park. (Olathe’s on its own, I guess.) That, however, … Continue reading

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Royals Lose Again to Major League Baseball’s Most Unfortunately Moniker’d Team

Seriously, can sports media stop using the term “D-Backs” to refer to the Arizona Diamondbacks? I end up in a fit of juvenile sniggering every time I hear the nickname due to its audible similarity to another popular colloquialism.

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