Your 2009 Royals are on pace to go 70-92 this season, based on their current win percentage. If you play with the math a little bit, and assume the Royals will continue to win/lose at the pace they've set after that 18-11 start, you're looki...

Here's to hoping that Manny Ramirez's unprecedented All-Star candidacy can be a referendum on steroids use. We could all use some clarification on this. You are probably tired of reading or...

The list of Royals' crimes against baseball decency is long and it is familiar around Kansas City. Chip Ambres' dropped fly ball. Ken Harvey being, literally, hit in the back with a cutoff...

The Royals say they want to build on pitching. They want to take calculated risks, acquire guys with big potential, and if they don't work out, fine, move on to the next chance. Trading for Rich...

Well, you're not going to like this. Yesterday, I joked about trading Joakim Soria for Curtis Granderson, Rick Porcello and Miguel Cabrera (assuming the Tigers pick up Cabrera's salary), but there are baseball circles where these things are discussed...

So, it turns out the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum won't have new competition from Baltimore after all. A story in the Baltimore Sun this week detailing "the first East Coast museum devoted to Negro League baseball teams and players" caused concern...

Score one for Royals marketing. The team announced Thursday that next year's team will wear a new powder blue hat with their powder blue jerseys, which have been worn every home day game since the 2008 season. The hat -- shown above here -- will go on...

The $200 million Yankees screamed and hugged and waved championship flags on the field of the $1.5 billion Yankee Stadium, the celebration spilling out to the streets, and this is going to sound weird, but it's the absolute truth: The whole thing was...

So, close readers of this blog may remember my occasional point about Kansas City having a bit of an inferiority complex in relation to St. Louis and, well, lots of other stuff. It bugs me at times. Kansas City is a terrific place, for a lot of...

Aside from a barstool, there may be no more emotional position in baseball than closer. This is certainly true for Jonathan Papelbon and K-Rod, but more, it's true for the people watching. So long as it doesn't get watered down from blowouts, the best...