Monday, February 25, 2008

I will change topics a little bit away from sports this time, and talk about a purchase i made about a year ago. About a year ago, i raced into walmart to grab a nintendo Wii off the shelf when i saw the previews on tv about a game system you could actually control. When i bought the system it came bundled with wii sports which was at the time the best game for Wii, the sad thing now one year later is, Wii Sports is still the best game for the system. There have been absolutely no good games that have came out that still use the wii movement controls effectively.
Kansas City is one of the biggest sports towns in the whole country, the chiefs practically sell out every single home game, if the royals improve (which they will) and get into a playoff race those games will become more and more like the Chiefs games atmosphere, and we have a soccer team which may not draw any type of the numbers that the chiefs or royals do, but they are still higher than most of the other comparable teams around the country. With all this said they are all playing in 2 pretty old stadiums located really in the middle of nowhere. I understand this is too late now with the tax bill just being passed to "Renovate" the stadiums but i dont understand why atleast the royals wouldn't spend some money because god knows they aren't "wasting" any on players and build a nice stadium in Downtown Kansas City, not only would this help increase the attendance rate drastically, but it would also help with the whole revitlization of downtown that the city is working on. I just wish someone would of proposed something like this before they made a plan to try and fix kaufmann and Arrowhead, I think a brand new stadium could of really helped them in a lot of ways. here is a link for the new stadium the Tampa Bay Rays are building who just like the Royals are a sub par under .500 baseball team.

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2007/11/29/306308.html

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Thank you Dayton Moore

As I talked about in my last post the power has shifted at Mizzou from Basketball to Football, I think Kansas City might be seeing some changes also, as the Chiefs get worse and worse every year, the Royals keep on improving, maybe not their record, but trust me they are improving, there is actually hope for the Royals. We have the one of the best GM's in the league in Dayton Moore, a brand new manager, Trey Hillman, and many upcoming stars in Mark Teahen, Billy Butler, Alex Gordon, and Luke Hochever. Although 2008 might not be the year the Royals return to their 1985 style and win another championship, but I will go out on a limb and i will say the Royals will win 78 games. Now atleast Kansas City will have atleast one decent team to put in the New renovated stadiums we just signed a tax bill for....

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Thank you Gary Pinkel

I would like to thank Gary Pinkel for giving Missouri fans something to get excited for, for the next three or four years. He moved a mediocre middle of the pack big 12 north team into a national title contender. Although the basketball coach Mike Anderson hasn't quite brought the same to the hardwood. Missouri which is known as a basketball school not a football one has flip flopped the last few seasons. For every step the football team has taken into becoming an elite school the basketball team has taken one back. Not only has the basketball team not been getting results but we just had to kick of the best player on our team and suspend all of the other starters because they have been getting arrested every other weekend. Missouri will miss out on the NCAA tournament for the 5th straight year (unless a miracle goes down at the sprint center and we get an automatic birth) which will be Missouri's longest drought of an NCAA birth. We have not had a decent team since the early Quinn Synder day's and the only reason we had success then was we still had Norm Stewart's recruits such as Kareem Rush and Clearance Gilbert. Until Missouri will hire a Great Head coach who can coach a type of basketball that can be successful in the Big 12, not the 40 minutes of hell which obviously cannot work in a conference as powerful as the Big 12 is, missouri will keep missing out on the NCAA tournament and we will keep counting down the days until football season starts instead of the other way around where we used to count down the days until basketball season began.