Four Months - One Write

Wow, I never write anymore, it is tough to be disciplined enough to hop on and write. This is very therapeutic, getting ideas and thoughts down for all of the frustrations that any remotely intelligent Kansas Citian has with the world right now.



The Chiefs season wound down to a close. We pounded Denver to close out the season. That game was the season for me, we pounded Denver like they cheated on us with about 500 strippers and prostitutes (sorry Tiger). The season ending on a high note does nothing more than give us a quick smile and bringing us back to reality.



Next Season, the following players should be starting for the Chiefs: Brandon Flowers, Tamba Hali, Demorrio Williams, Glenn Dorsey, Tyson Jackson, Brandon Albert, Matt Cassel, Jamaal Charles, Dustin Colquitt, and Ryan Succop. This leaves Carr, Page, Brown, Mays, Vrabel, Edwards, Waters, Niswanger, Goff/Smith, O'Callaghan, Pope, Bowe, and Wade all eligible for replacement. That's 10 players remaining in starting unit, two of which are kickers.



All the players eligible for replacement aren't necessary, but if I say "please" to Scott Pioli nicely hopefully he fulfills my dream of drafting and/or signing 4 new WR's and 3 new offensive linemen a reality. Ambitious, yes. Necessary, I'll let Pioli decide.



The Royals season is about to open. I am going to be frank here, and I don't care what Dayton Moore says because I don't trust that man with one ounce of running a franchise. We are going to be bad. I never say this, I cannot remember being as pessimistic about the makeup of a Royals team in as long as I can remember. Reasons for pessimism:



First, we have two lefties in our entire pitching staff, neither of which should be on a major league roster. Most teams force an opponent to switch up their lineup from time to time, and look forward to having lefties in the bullpen to throw out there after someone like Jim Thome has already hit 3 home runs off your righties in a ball game. In crunch time, it's nice to throw the big fella something he hasn't seen yet.



Next, Dayton Moore did something stupid that he has done two off seasons in a row, he replaced solid cheap players with overpriced replacements. Last season, he gutted a cheap and VERY TALENTED bullpen by sending Ramirez and Nunez out of town for Crisp and Jacobs. Remember now, we handed the Marlins their current closer and the Red Sox one of the best setup men in baseball for two players who didn't even last more than a season. To make matters worse, we took the combined $800K Nunez/Ramirez were bringing in and gave $7 million to Farnsworth and Cruz. Now, to make matters worse, we have replaced a DeJesus, Maier, Teahan outfield for a Podsednik, Ankiel, DeJesus outfield. We added a few million to field the exact same outfield.



THEN.....we wanted to unload payroll at catcher by letting the best cleanup hitter we could have on this year's team (Olivo) walk to sign an old (and worthless) Jason Kendall. Unfortunately, it was not a cost cutting move because Kendall went for about the same Olivo ended up making. Ugh......



FINALLY.....we have a team that has only a few decent players: Greinke, Butler, DeJesus, Callaspo, and Soria. We have potential in a few others, but that's about it right there. Moore has two of the five on the trading block. Neither of which is Soria. Joakim Soria is fantastic, however closer is the most overrated position in baseball and on a bad team he only makes about 40 appearances a season. Not enough to net many more saves than a Robinson Tejeda would.



I didn't even tough the most disgusting move of all.....the trading for Yuniesky Betancourt which was dumb on the level of the NY Mets trading us their best pitching prospect for Jose Guillen (AND paying his salary). Talk about moronic idiocy, Dayton Moore should have been fired the day he even spoke of that to the Glass family. Needless to say, I am not very optimistic.

The Tigers are having a solid basketball season, better than I envisioned. I figured it would be a down season until the solid recruiting class came in next season. J.T. Tiller has been a disappointment in that he is a limited player, and you always hope that in a senior season they will pick it up. He hasn't.

Either way with Tiller, Kim English is playing better down the stretch, and Denmon and English look like a decent shooting pair for next season. Dixon will be a very good replacement for JT Tiller next year, and having some new bigs inside will turn this into a top team in the conference very soon.

I like where Anderson is taking the Tiggers.....keep it up.

Politics will be brief. Our country is going down the drain and our personal and national debt will drive us into being a second rate economy very soon. It is very hard to see the Asians just taking over consuming their own goods, but it makes sense for them to spread the sales of their goods through the rest of the world and minimize the effect of our looming national bankruptcy.

We all better get ahead where the continued debt and spend ideologies of Reagan, Bush I, Clinton (until Dick Morris got ahold of him), Bush II, and Obama continue. The inflation tax of printing money is the worst tax of all, and the dollar is being destroyed. Nothing new there, but it is worth noting that no matter what the stock markets says unemployment will rise, the dollar will continue to fall, and the double-dip will come when the Fed is not giving out debt for free.

It's coming.

That's it. I need to get on here more.