Royally Screwed

Kansas City Royals - 11
White Sox - 0

Kansas City's Luke Hochevar went the full length today, and shut out the Sox in the process. I repeat, Luke Hochevar just threw a complete game shutout on us. He came into the game with a 6.23 era, and we only got three hits on him. Let me restate: Luke Hochevar just pitched a complete game, three hit shutout against the Sox. Wait a minute. Let's try that again. Okay. Luke Hochevar just completed a three hit shutout against the Sox, and went the full length of the game. Luke Hochevar just tossed a complete game, three hit shutout, against the Chicago White Sox. Nope. Not getting easier to type.

Moving along, Sox pitchers got lit up. 8 of the 9 Kansas City starters got hits, and all 9 managed to get on base throughout the game. Billy Butler and Miguel Olivo, in particular, made life difficult for us tonight. Butler went 2-for-2 with 3 walks, scored 3 runs and drove in 2. Olivo and his Latin rage hit two separate 2 run shots, and drove in 6 runs total on the day.

In summation:

WANGO TANGO! WANGO TANGO!



An interesting tidbit from Joe Cowley's twitter feed: "Jenks may have sealed his fate for a trade this winter. Bye big guy." Apparently he was spotted last night joking and goofing around after blowing his 6th save of the year. Oney Guillen certainly spotted this, and broadcast it for the world to read. I'm guessing that means Ozzie saw, and probably Kenny as well... Kenny has been pissed as of late, from everything I've heard... not the time to mess around, Bobby.

As a possible result of this, and in conspicuous fashion, both Joey Cora's and Oney Guillen's Twitter accounts don't exist anymore. They were both up before noon today... Oney has been accompanying the team lately, and pretty much tore them a new one- alluding to the fact that Jenks should/will be gone, and pretty much echoing his father's sentiment that the Sox are terrible. Both accounts have been getting mention on The Score today, and I have to assume that somebody within the front office put the kibosh on the Twitter feeds.

Joey Cora's Twitter feed had a joke on it this morning:

Q: What do a mama bear on the pill and the World Series have in common?

A: No Cubs.

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If Kenny was resisting the idea of rebuilding, and was holding out on the title window of the '05 remnants... I think this team's performance makes it apparent that the window is closed, and locked.