Quick Update

Hello all. Sorry to have been gone for a while, but I just spent a week in Switzerland on business (I know, rough duty), and really didn't have much time to post. I've got a new post in the hopper and should have it up on the site in the next day or two. Until then, thanks for your patience.


In the meantime, as a season-ticket holder, I feel compelled to drop a quick note about the Kansas City Royals. After today's win in Milwaukee the Royals are now 19-20 in their last 39 games. That's just about a quarter of a full season. And it's not some fluke. Their run differential tracks to that record almost exactly; 193 scored, 197 allowed. Extrapolate that out for the remainder of the season, and even with their terrible start the Royals project to win 72 games, which is pretty much where I figured they would be when the year started. A very nice step forward.

Speaking of steps forward, Alex Gordon is hitting .294/.356/.463/.819 in this stretch. That's not spectacular, but it's certainly solid, and shows what might have been in the Rookie of the Year voting if he'd been able to get off to a decent start.