This was a relatively light week for the Kansas City Royals.  They continued their white-hot spring, despite snapping their winning streak.  Royals fans' optimism, as always, is met by our typical and predictable  negative-Nancies.  Eric Hosmer gets the call to serve his country in a baseball capacity.  Ned Yost announced a surprising twist in the second base competition.  Among other things, we have anothe ...

This week #Royals fans saw another week's worth of Spring Training  games go by, and still no loses for our beloved Royals.  Along with that, we'll discuss first impressions of the Royals new starting pitchers, Donnie Joseph not playing fair, Hochevar being Hochevar, Moose and Hosmer heating up, a fellow blogger goes all Mayan for a second, the best one-liner tweet of the week, and a Royals legend needs our ...

Twitter Tuesday is a new weekly feature to Pine Tar Press, in which I’ll review all things #Royals through the eyes of Twitter.  Snark and sarcasm are welcomed and valued just as much as baseball insight.  Keep them clean, and keep them coming. The second week of Royals Spring Training featured a wide range of happenings: Royals got their competitive juices flowing with a couple intrasquad games, Ned lost a ...

Twitter Tuesday: 2/11-2/18 Twitter Tuesday is a new weekly feature to Pine Tar Press, in which I’ll review all things #Royals through the eyes of Twitter.  Snark and sarcasm are welcomed and valued just as much as baseball insight.  Keep them clean, and keep them coming. Welcome to the first Spring Training edition of Twitter Tuesday.  Pitchers and catchers reported last week, and position players have sinc ...

Twitter Tuesday is a new weekly feature to Pine Tar Press, in which I'll review all things #Royals through the eyes of Twitter.  Snark and sarcasm are welcomed and valued just as much as baseball insight.  Keep them clean, and keep them coming. This will hopefully be the last dead week for Twitter Tuesday.  There just wasn't a lot to talk about this week.  Luis Mendoza tossed a gem for team Mexico in the Ca ...

  Twitter Tuesday: 1/30-2/5 Twitter Tuesday is a new weekly feature to Pine Tar Press, in which I’ll review all things #Royals through the eyes of Twitter.  Snark and sarcasm are welcomed and valued just as much as baseball insight.  Keep them clean, and keep them coming.   Royals news was relatively light this week.  A couple items that lit up the #Royals Twitter world were Danny Duffy’s Michael ...

Twitter Tuesday: 1/22-1/29 Twitter Tuesday is a new weekly feature to Pine Tar Press, in which I’ll review all things #Royals through the eyes of Twitter.  Snark and sarcasm are welcomed and valued just as much as baseball insight.  Keep them clean, and keep them coming.  Hope springs eternal The Royals weren’t making much news early in the week, so I thought I’d see what general Royals thoughts were floati ...

Twitter Tuesday: 1/14-1/21 Twitter Tuesday is a new weekly feature to Pine Tar Press, in which I’ll review all things #Royals through the eyes of Twitter.  Snark and sarcasm are welcomed and valued just as much as baseball insight.  Keep them clean, and keep them coming.  USA! USA! USA! January 17th- Royals relief pitcher, Tim Collins, was named to team USA’s World Baseball Classic roster.  He joins eight o ...