Former beat writer covering the Royals for https://xitter.cf/t.co/KWSHcWzd51. Pondering what is next. Author of Martyball!, Shame of Me, Sea of Red, and Lau’s Laws on Hitting.
Kansas City, Missouri
Joined November 2009
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Wanted to share some great news I received from my last blood draw regarding my prostate cancer: The lowest measurement for a PSA level is 0.02 and my level was BELOW that, meaning it is microscopic/undetectable. Woohoo! Winning! I will remain on my meds for 18 more months. 🤞🤞
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Imagine trying to explain all of today’s bullshit roughing the passer penalties to Ray Nitschke.
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I mean - objectively this is hilarious. But in the world where Matthew Golden was penalized and later fined for taunting by doing a simple flex, how can this exist and subsequently be promoted by the NFL?!?
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MLB has more varied champions than other leagues, but it’s a fact that either the Rays or Brewers will be the rare new champs to come from the lower end of the revenue spectrum. And maintaining a championship roster is fundamentally harder for them than it is for high rev teams.
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If the 2026 MLB season is proof that small-market teams are not at a structural disadvantage, then it is also proof that Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Cal Raleigh are two of the worst players in baseball.
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From 1995-2026, 94.7% of the time, a team that "cared about winning" enough to rank in the top 10 in payroll just so happened to come from the top half of market sizes.
68.8% came from the top 10 markets.
Probably just a coincidence!
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Since 1995 (31 years of results)
62.9% of WS participants had a top 10 payroll
89.% had a top 15 payroll
74.2% of WS winners had a top 10 payroll
93.5% had a top 15 payroll
77.4% of WS participants ranked in top 1/2 of markets
80.6% of WS winners ranked in top 1/2 of markets
Major League Baseball wants a salary cap and says it's to ensure smaller-market, lower-payroll teams can win in the postseason.
Milwaukee, Cleveland and Tampa Bay are winning without one.
Free at ESPN, how to reconcile the 2026 postseason and cap talk: espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/5016…
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Alec Zumwalt out as Royals hitting coach, reassigned within the organization, sources tell @TheAthletic. He will remain senior director of hitting performance, the job he had before joining the big-league staff in May 2022.
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Good stuff….
On hitting: "I will go to my grave vowing that my theory is better than they’re teaching now.”
George Brett with @jonmorosi on "The Road to Cooperstown"
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Remembering Marty Schottenheimer
This is coaching.
The #Chiefs head coach consoles and encourages his young linebacker Derrick Thomas in 1991.
One of my all-time favorite clips
Heaven Birthday, Marty🕯️
I have been coaching little leaguers for over a year now and I am teaching George Brett’s hitting method — lead arm extension/top hand release. Brett became a Hall of Famer because Charley Lau taught him this. George wrote the forward for my first book: Lau’s Laws on Hitting.
On hitting: "I will go to my grave vowing that my theory is better than they’re teaching now.”
George Brett with @jonmorosi on "The Road to Cooperstown"
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Congrats and thank you to Michael, a three-time Good Guy champ! I say it every year but the #Royals clubhouse is full of pros when it comes to helping us do our jobs, which isn’t an easy task on either side some nights.
Congratulations to Michael Massey, who last night received the 2026 Mike Swanson Good Guy Award!
The award is voted on by the KC BBWAA and presented to the player who best exemplifies a cooperative spirit with the beat writers who cover the team.
ALT Michael Massey poses for a photo with retired Royals Vice President of Communications and Broadcasting Mike Swanson and MLB.com's Anne Rogers after being awarded the 2026 Mike Swanson Good Guy Award. (Photo by Amy Kontras/Kansas City Royals)
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Ep 1273 espnwichita.com SDS
Noon Levity/Day/Bobby's back
12:25 Story of the Week
12:47 SOW + Summer TQ
1:00 CFB almost here + @GoShockers conference foes
1:25 @FlannyMLB
1:43 IOJY Aug 7
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Daniel Lynch IV will start tomorrow, which was why he was unavailable tonight. #Royals are going to give him an opportunity in the rotation moving forward.
Think of what it took for the small-market Royals to win it all. They hit on all bargain-basement deals — Morales, Rios, Young, Volquez, Medlen, Hochevar, Madson, Franklin Morales and they hit on Zobrist/Cueto deadline trades. Still took a crazy Game 4 rally in Houston to advance
Yes, a floor is mandatory just like in other sports. I have always advocated that. Cheap owners are not the problem. Massive local TV revenue is. The Dodgers get over $300 million more than the Royals with local TV revenue. That does not mean Mr. K, Glass and Sherman were “cheap”
What the hell….
The #Royals have received “a ton of interest” in SP Michael Wacha and SP Seth Lugo, but KC has “rebuffed all offers, believing they need them to compete next year,” per @BNightengale
