RLBLUE

Hello Royal Treatment peoples. My tag, “RLBLUE”, comes from the license plates I got for my new (to me) Royal Blue vehicle… OK… it’s a mini-van, but it’s NOT my fault! Some lady in an SUV ran a red light & totaled my full-sized van… had to get what I could get, besides, the wife is more willing to drive the mini-van than the truck.

I just started posting on a “blog” that I’ve had since April. Mostly, I had been using it to post pics… hoping to use them as Avatars on Royals Nation… alas… I have failed.

But you can read more about me over there (RLBLUE – The Buddha Gut – DOM).
The actual URL is:http://kcrylz.blogspot.com/
(“kcrylz” was another license plate I was considering)

Anyway, I’ll blog specific Royals related stuff here, and more personally related Royals stuff on the other thang.

I’m, not a research or stat guy, just a gut feeling type of fan.

Meet the P-lotty

Greetings and salutations. Some of you may remember me from my previous gig as a weak attempt as the minor league blogger for the Royals at mvn.com. However, extreme time constraints forced me away from that job, as I had too much on my plate to digest. (To Mr. Clark...you are doing a much better job than what I had time for. Keep it up.)

Anyways, some quick information about myself. My name is Matt, and I live in Bellevue, NE. I currently am married to the wonder of my world, Courtney. We have three dogs, all beagles, and we consider them as our kids. My hobbies include sports (duh), working out, video games (nerd) and breathing everything that is Royals baseball.

I currently am in school, attending Western Governors University in Salt Lake City, Utah. WGU is a completely online institution that is accredited by several national organizations, including NCATE (National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education). I am currently pursuing a Secondary Social Studies degree. Additionally, I hold a Physical Education degree from Peru State College. From that degree I hold down several education positions: as a substitute teacher for several school districts in the Omaha area, and coach MS FB and WR for the middle schools for Bellevue Public Schools. On top of that, I am a tutor at Sylvan Learning Center in Bellevue. Teaching is one of the greatest professions one can be involved in. When a child gets that "Ahhhh" look on its face, realizing it has learned a new skill, it's the most rewarding visual I receive.

My Royal brother hood was born when I hatched from my egg. I even came out wearing powder blue, baby. As I evolved into a Royal super fan without much memorabilia to prove it, I became more interested in just baseball itself as a game. It is mesmerizing that someone is considered great when that someone messes up 7 times out of 10. For you true baseball folk, you know what I mean. For those that don't...my little snippet means that in order to be considered a great hitter, you need to bat .300. Crazy.

From time to time I'll be checking in with my personal thoughts and feelings on the Royals. And grape soda. Maybe a word or two on my other love, Husker football.

Introducing Dr. Thunder

Hello, Royals Fans. I'm Dr. Thunder (named after everyone's favorite wal*mart rip off Dr. Pepper). I post on royals nation as sfcchase and on Royal Board as DrThunder. I volunteered my services to help with this blog, so I figured I'd better write something before the big man thinks I blew him off.

A little about me. I'll be 30 years old next week, born and raised in Pittsburg, KS ( 20 miles northwest of Joplin). I joined the Army a year after high school and have been all over the world. I'm currently the commander of a 10 man US Army Recruiting Station in San Diego, California. I'm married and I have 4 kids (2 boys, 2 girls). I've loved the Royals since I first saw them on tv when I was maybe 4 or 5 years old. I try to get to at least 1 Royals game back in KC every year, and I go to all of the games out in Anaheim when the good guys come to town. I'm usually pretty busy, and because of the time difference I only watch the games on the weekends with MLB extra innings, and I just watch highlights of the weekday games on mlb.com.

I started my own blog a few weeks ago, but only posted 3 things, so I'll be closing it down and only posting on here. I'll probably only post once a week or so, and it will generally be about whatever the flavor of the day is and I'll make sure to always throw in a Tony Pena Jr. joke, its kind of my thing.

So that about wraps it up for me this week, check back next time when my second post gives me 200% more posts than Tony Pena Jr.'s got AL MVP votes.

The New RT

Hello to all it's Ray W of RoyalsonRadioetc blog.
I'll be one of a few more writers to post on the all new Royal Treatment.
(and thee, first to post yeesss)
At first I was skeptical of a lot of writers all on a single blog BUT.
After I signed up the Royals have picked up 2 games from the evil Red-birdz and are looking for that ole sweet Sweep tomorrow !!
So I just wanted to introduce myself to all the RT readers. I'll continue to post my main stuff on RoR but just like Soria I can get you out with my B* stuff to.
haha

* B stuff constitutes non radio related stuff and more in depth thoughts if I have any of course, terms and conditions apply see local dealer for special offers, 38 percent financing or 7.89 percent APR are not available through 1-2-09, writer pricing available you make what we make, a whopping $0.00 oww !

....In The Year 2000: Luke Hochevar

I'm more optimistic about Hochevar than some. Simply put, I see him becoming a viable innings muncher, being counted on for 6-7 inning starts virtually his entire career. I also see Hoch as being extremely durable, despite his somewhat gangly presence on the mound in his early-to-mid twenties.

I see him as a control artist, much along the lines of Brad Radke. Unfortunately, he will be too subceptible (sp?) to the long-ball to ever be considered an ace. I think his ceiling will be that of a #2, but he will show mostly #3 stuff and results most of his career. He will be prone to the long-ball, but sport just enough WHIP and just enough assortment of pitchers to stay glued to virtually any rotation. See: Matt Morris, Jeff Suppan, Brad Radke. Mid 4 ERA's, WHIP around 1.3, K/9 around 7, BB/9 around 2.5, and K:BB around 3. A great #3 pitcher.

This might be difficult to read, so do the best you can.

Luke Hochevar crystal ball:

Yr Age Team W L G GS IP ERA BB K

07 23 KC 0 1 4 1 12 2.13 4 5

08 24 KC 7 10 24 24 145 4.99 53 113

09 25 KC 13 12 32 32 195 4.53 62 164

10 26 KC 6 11 29 29 188 4.88 53 120

11 27 KC 14 12 34 33 214 4.02 59 189

12 28 KC 10 12 32 32 199 4.46 54 161

13 29 KC 11 8 33 31 205 3.10 47 167

14 30 CLE 13 14 32 32 193 3.95 61 155

15 31 CLE 15 11 30 30 206 5.23 50 134

16 32 CLE 12 6 25 25 171 4.38 39 116

17 33 NYM 7 15 29 29 185 4.90 54 124

18 34 NY/LV 12 10 32 32 207 3.89 43 125

19 35 LV 10 9 28 26 181 4.23 33 109

20 36 BAL 5 16 30 30 199 5.06 71 143

21 37 BAL 13 10 32 32 183 4.46 62 128

22 38 BAL 16 9 31 31 200 3.85 69 119

23 39 SF 7 6 19 19 118 5.65 33 65