Todd Wellymeyer and Angel Berroa

[dalgreen]

I went to the Royals/Pirates game (I must love baseball to see these two teams) and a couple of things I came away with:

 

1. Todd Wellymeyer still stinks. He walked the first guy he faced on four straight pitches and threw a wild pitch. He then walked the third guy he faced (although he never should've had to face the third batter due to an error).

 

2. I'm trying to figure out why Hendry hasn't gone after Angel Berroa yet. He would be the typical Hendry signee. Berroa has tools but sucks. His OBP is bad -- he has walked a grand total of 5 times this year. He always goes up hacking and simply is someone I could see Hendry thinking, "A change of scenery is all he needs." It was funny, he walked today and the entire crowd behind the first base dugout gave him a standing ovation. They then promptly booed him when he dropped a pop up on the infield, while calling off Grudz and Graffanino and trying to catch it one handed. I don't know why Hendry hasn't gone after this guy.

 

Kaufmann Stadium might be the most underrated stadium in the majors. Great place to see a game (too bad the product isn't) and it isn't even a "new" retro stadium. KC new what they were doing when they decided to build a baseball only stadium instead of those stupid cookie cutter stadiums.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Kaufmann Stadium might be the most underrated stadium in the majors. Great place to see a game (too bad the product isn't) and it isn't even a "new" retro stadium. KC new what they were doing when they decided to build a baseball only stadium instead of those stupid cookie cutter stadiums.

 

I've heard nothing but good things about Kaufmann. I'm trying to make plans to make a game during the Blue Jays series.

[sweetpeteman]

I went to the Royals/Pirates game (I must love baseball to see these two teams) and a couple of things I came away with:

 

1. Todd Wellymeyer still stinks. He walked the first guy he faced on four straight pitches and threw a wild pitch. He then walked the third guy he faced (although he never should've had to face the third batter due to an error).

 

2. I'm trying to figure out why Hendry hasn't gone after Angel Berroa yet. He would be the typical Hendry signee. Berroa has tools but sucks. His OBP is bad -- he has walked a grand total of 5 times this year. He always goes up hacking and simply is someone I could see Hendry thinking, "A change of scenery is all he needs." It was funny, he walked today and the entire crowd behind the first base dugout gave him a standing ovation. They then promptly booed him when he dropped a pop up on the infield, while calling off Grudz and Graffanino and trying to catch it one handed. I don't know why Hendry hasn't gone after this guy.

 

Kaufmann Stadium might be the most underrated stadium in the majors. Great place to see a game (too bad the product isn't) and it isn't even a "new" retro stadium. KC new what they were doing when they decided to build a baseball only stadium instead of those stupid cookie cutter stadiums.

 

 

From the sound of it, the fans who are at the games are fans that really know the game.

[lloydo]

I agree, Kauffmann is a great park. I saw the Cubs at Kauffman back in 98 when they still had Johnny Baseball in KC.

[Skers and Cubbies]

I agree the K is a wonderful park. I mean great seats are only about 30 dollars( and technically there honestly arent bad seats in the K, plus moving down is seemingly encouraged by some ushers( 7 dollar cheap seats developed into about 25 dollar club box seats, still that guy was the coolest usher i have ever met. He literally walked me and a few friends down and said take those there)

KC is a good baseball town, to bad the ownership seems determined to Destroy that franchise.