after wednesday night's mega-post, i figured you could use a little break from all that pesky reading. anything happen while i was gone?

well, there was thursday's 12-3 shellacking. pretty sad. at least it happened early, so you never got hope that the royals were actually in the game. that's the most you can hope for some days around here.

thursday also saw the re-emergence of the real chris george, apparently the victim of a comical set of circumstances that began with his apparent disbelief of the news that the major league royals had inexplicably decided that they couldn't afford a new uniform for a player that had never been with the club before, and opted to bring up someone that already had one. apparently the "chris george" we've seen the last couple of games before thursday's was nothing more than some light and sound magic, courtesy of the kansas city royal's special effects team. unfortunately, the real chris eventually made his way back, culminating in an actual appearance at kauffman stadium thursday afternoon.

and, just in time for a well-earned trip back to the minors, too! bye chris.

i think if you search around enough, you may be able to find a thing or two about our little carlos growing up and leaving home. my initial take: i think we made out pretty well, considering we had nothing upon nothing to build on except other teams' continued insistence that having one guy for a couple months will marginally improve their team enough to overcome all of the randomness and improbability that goes along with winning lots of baseball games. and it seems like we did pretty good with the guys we picked up. of course counting on prospects really sucks, and there's no way in the world to know how these guys will work out. but, right now, i think there's reason to have some hope.

note to david dejesus: lighten up a bit. you get to play a lot now, so stop trying so hard. and since we have new line-up cards in stock, you don't have to worry about tony glueing relaford's name in your spot. for a couple days, at least.

well, i'm off for the weekend -- back sunday night or monday. good luck against the cardinals, of course. just one question: why can't we just drop this whole cardinal rivalry and start picking on someone that isn't good every year? it sure would help to have a natural rivalry with someone that, um, sucks.