Dribblers

SI put the Chiefs number two in the AFC West. Mike and Mike in the Morning thought we'd go 10-6 and make the playoffs. I like these predictions since last week was the only week we should any cohesiveness and/or spirit and/or ability.

Personally, I think we go 1-2 or 2-3 and then come together as a team. I really think that the biggest off-season casualty was Tony Richardson. He may be getting older, but he still had gas in the tank. I'm OK with Roaf retiring, if he didn't think he had the spirit, energy, or ability to continue to block Trent, then awesome, but with a new line being put together, having T-Rich would have been the X-Factor to keep Trent protection intact... always a good thing to keep this O running.

I'm not excited about the Royals next year. This team is so bad that we will probably have to deal with another (knowingly) losing season. In the past couple years Baird never got it done, but there was always, always hype. Next year (unless Moore manages to trade Grudz (maybe, maybe not), ELARTON, and REGGIE SANDERS) will be letting players and managers play out their contracts so they don't look foolish releasing (losing all that money) or trading for junk players. It's possible that Gordon, Butler, Lubanski, Greinke, Lumsden, Hochevar... all make the team... but, not even likely. Meaning, we'll have Esteban German, Berroa/Blanco (I'm liking this guy if only b/c he's not Berroa), Buck (I'm the rest of the season away from giving up on him unless he starts hitting NOW!), Teahen (get excited), Dejesus (stay excited), Gathright (GIVE THIS GUY SOME PLAYING TIME!), Brown (unless they don't arbitrate... please don't arbitrate), Sanders (taking Costa's playing time), Grudz (taking.... Keppinger's playing time?), and Shealy (get excited!).

Wow, if Shealy hits like statisticians project and Gordon keeps slugging the ball.... what do you do with Teahen? I'm a fan of 2 things: 1) Trade him for some pitching (preferably starting, we can patch a bullpen together (Gobble, Peralta, Nunez, Nelson, Braun, Sisco?, Wellemeyer) or 2) Move him to 2B. Is he athletic enough to play it? Find out in Spring Training and then when we are 10 games out of the division after 20 games, trade Grudz and put him at 2b for the rest of the season and call up Gordon.