The Kansas City Royals Are Vile, Classless, And An Embarrassment To Baseball
Real quick: Big Cat already blogged the brawl between the Sox and Royals yesterday, so I won’t really get too in depth into the brawl itself. I have a few brief notes that I would like to touch on now that we’re in the aftermath of the situation, or at least until tonight’s game starts on the South Side. I do not in the least we have seen the last of these two teams throwing at each other. It might not be tonight or in the rest of this series, but the Royals are officially the scum of Major League Baseball. Classless, vile scum. And Yordano Ventura is the ring leader of this entire collection of pukes. Have a worse Napoleonic Complex, Kansas City, you can’t.
I said in my MLB Roundup post that I love how the Royals play a few weeks back. They’re aggressive, play lights out defense, have great team speed and a freakishly good bullpen. These recent transgressions don’t change that. But in the first few weeks of this season they have become a complete and utter embarrassment to the game of baseball. Again, not because of their play, but because of how they carry themselves the moment they step between the chalk.
I’m all for throwing at people under more than a few circumstances. Playing borderline dirty. But, there are unwritten rules that teams need to abide by, like not throwing 100MPH fastballs at people’s heads. Or retaliating TWICE by throwing at a player or team. A Marquis of Queensberry, if you will. The Royals do not abide by these honor codes, and if every player on the team tears an ACL, snaps a UCL or rips apart their rotator cuff it’s because the baseball gods will smite them. They are a group of classless scum bags. It’s dispicable.
Last night, Yordano Ventura yelling “FUCK YOU” at the top of his lungs to Adam Eaton after making a routine play was the icing on the cake for me. Stories, tweets, and everything in between have been rolling into me since last night saying different people provoked it, Shark was running his mouth in the dug out, yada yada yada. Uhhh, Adam Eaton is like 5’2” bro. If anything, make the play and turn around to Shark and tell him to fuck himself. Not the one and only dude on the field you know you could actually take in a fight, you fucking pussy.
The Kansas City Royals are pond scum
That’s all I really have to say about Ventura and KC as of now, and I’m going to transition into a few quick things about the White Sox.
1. I love Chris Sale. Have I mentioned that before? Last night is reason 10 billion why. He’s the best pitcher in baseball, but my love for him goes beyond that. He’s the perfect player you want leading your clubhouse. I’m gonna make this comparison and I’m sure I’ll catch hell for it, but he’s got a lot of Pedro in him. I’m obviously not talking about their pitching repetoire, build or anything like that. I’m talking about he has such a ‘fuck you’ attitude on the mound. He exerts an incredible mound presence. He’s the Jonathon Toews of the White Sox and there isn’t a player in baseball I’d want leading my team than him. If anyone else on the team did this, I’d say cut the bull shit. But when the person who is in charge of the entire clubhouse does it, it’s completely warranted:
2. Carl and I had a discussion over spring training about how Shark would get on my nerves from time to time with how he interracts in the media. Nothing that was a big deal or anything, but a few weeks into March I definitely knew what he meant. Kinda cocky, arrogant, and the whole “homecoming” thing kind of perturbed me, seeing how he’s dead set on reaching free agency. He kinda reminded me of Jake Peavy in that sense – always said the right thing, nothing overly controversial. Has the “bulldog/ ultimate competitor” stigma when he’s on the mound. But I always thought Peavy was super fake and a lot of his on the mound antics were straight theatrics. After Shark’s 2nd inning of his 2nd start against Detroit, and after getting tagged for 4 runs, Shark got FURIOUS with himself. Screamed into his mitt. Since that moment he pitched brilliantly. It was all i needed to see. I absolutely love everything about Jeff Samardzija. He is a warrior, a leader and a fucking great pitcher to top it off. Seeing him have his teammates back, throwing haymakers at that other cock sucker Lorenzo Cain was fun to watch.
3. This is the start of a new rivalry in the AL Central. Yes, the Sox loser more times than not to the Royals. At this point it’s kinda like the Bears/Packers. That said, these two teams absolutely HATE each other. Every single game is going to be a war from here on out. And I’m all for it. Any extra motivation the Sox can use is a-ok by me.
4. FUCK Yordano Ventura. I hope that punk bitch tries and pulls this shit against an NL team when he has to hit. Won’t see him drilling people or talking shit then, I can guarantee it. Fake tough guy like you read about.
I’m going to reserve judgement on where I think the Sox season is headed come May. I don’t want to make any knee jerk reactions until then. All I know is this season is going to be fucking awesome, record be damned. Constant entertainment already.
