We have crossed over into the surreal. Last month, we all watched in horror as events too impossible for a summer movie blockbuster played out on our television screens, our radios and our computers. The images were indelible and heartbreaking. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE Posted 3/17/13 I was talking with a friend recently about everything that’s wrong with social networking today. I think it’s great that folks seem to have embraced the idea of technology. Just a few years ago, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reprinted from the Rambling Moron Column at the Platte County Landmark. THE FIRST STEP TOWARD RECOVERY Posted 1/19/13 It begins about 8 p.m. every night. Just as I am whisking my kid off to his nightly bath. I give it a glance. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reprinted from the Rambling Moron Column at the Platte County Landmark. THE FANS’ VOICE IS GETTING STRONGER Posted 1/11/13 For generations, the “fan” of a team has had some very minor duties – pay for admission and cheer for your […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When you work for the Chiefs marketing program, it’s got to be a rough and tumble job. I mean, one minute you’re getting chewed out for leaving gum wrappers on the steps, another minute you’re trying to put money into […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Make that two popular Royals players that have announced that they are quitting Twitter. Earlier in the year, injured pitcher Danny Duffy closed his popular and upbeat Twitter account for a short time after a heated discussion with an online […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a story about Twitter; Baseball and Athletes; Trolling and Trolls; and Children and Childishness. But mostly it’s about Twitter. As has been documented by the Kansas City Royals, Danny Duffy, injured starting pitcher for the Royals deactivated his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s Hate Week. And if you don’t know what that means, then you obviously aren’t a fan or MU or KU, or you have a mental disorder. Hate Week meant to me that I’m liable to lose my shit a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s the end of the year already and that means it’s time to send out our first-annual Fake Ned Awards. We call them “The Fisters” in honor of our favorite twitter topic. Instead of some lame intro and awards show […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because historians will look on this weekend as the days the Royals’ fortune changed, I feel compelled to document what exactly happened in Boston and carried into Cleveland. It started, as most Royals stories do, with a fuckup. It was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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