“Oh yes it’s Lady’s Night, and the feeling’s right. Oh yes it’s Lady’s Night oh what a – oh what a night.”
-Jon Lovitz in some crappy Adam Sandler movie.
Five game losing streak?? PHOEY!! We’ve got Meche on the mound for Lady’s Night tonight.* Remember last year, when we started out a road trip to the east, beat the Marlins (who were at that time leading the NL East) two-out-of-three? Well, to give you a refresher, after that series, we were 21-22, 1.5 back of the White Sox and very much in contention.
* I have a feeling that, along with at Tha Kaye, that phrase will also be spoken in soft whispers in bedrooms around Kansas City tonight. The innuendo is killing me…
The next night, we were no hit by Jon Lester on Beantown. Even after getting spanked thoroughly by the BoSox in a four game set, we went to play a less than mediocre, pre-Cito Gaston Jays team. Thinking that after a tough sweep, playing against a .500 team would make us right as rain…it didn’t.
Returning home would feel good, we thought. Especially against a division foe who had had our number up to that point in the season…it didn’t feel too good to the tune of three more in the right-hand column at the hands of the Twinkies.
We finally stopped the bleeding of 12 in-a-row on May 31st when Kyle Davies out-dueled CC Sabathia at the K at, incidentally, the only Royals game I had the opportunity to see in person last year.
Well, this Friday, I’ll be in attendance at Greinke-fest wearing the $18 non-fitted Royals cap that I bought my (Cee yoU Next Tuesday)-ish now ex-girlfriend for the game last year. (Hey, the good luck worked, and minus the 12 game stretch, we ended up 1 game under Five Hund-o). Hopefully tonight the ladies will help Meche bury some pitches in the inside corner* and The Royals won’t have to rely on me as a good-luck charm.
* Killin’ me…
Here are some things I am excited about when venturing into the new stadium for the first time:
-I’m fascinated by the fact that, along with a seat in the behind the fountain, your ticket into the Dri-Duck section of LF gets you a free hat. Now, I’m assuming that this means a crappy Kutcher-ish trucker/hunter hat…brilliant. Dri-Ducks usually feature some sort of wildlife gallivanting along the side of the hat. Is there some sort of baseball connection to this? Like a picture of Sluggerrr getting taken down by a 30-Aut-6?
-The Royals are playing the Orioles this series. I don’t know anything about them except for the fact that their top prospect is a guy named Matt Wieters. I don’t know anything about Matt Weiters except for what Disco Hayes wrote about him. There’s really nothing to say about the Orioles, except for the fact that this is a poorly veiled excuse for a blatant Disco Hayes reference, and a link to this.
-I’m excited to see some of the BBQ selections that they’ve upgraded. Hopefully the meat will look better than past K BBQ, which looked like it was worked on by Jose Guillen’s lower lip. Here are some dish name suggestions courtesy of 810 Zone’s Lin Elliott (arti)Choke dip:
- Juan Gonzales Pulled Hammy Pork Sandwich
- Gil Meche’s Lady’s Night Smoked Sausage (Killin’ me…)
- Joakim Soria’s Shredded Rotator Cuff Slaw (ok…I probably deserve to be punched in the face for that one…)
I’ll be driving down from Iowa in order to make the game, but probably won’t have a chance to get there before probably 8:00. Hopefully the big-time O-ffense will put up some crooked numbers and allow the game to slow down to where I can watch more than 15 batters worth of Greinke dominance.
HOLLA!!
