Ball Star Roundtable, Part 3 | Mellinger's Blog on the Royals and Baseball

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Royal Reflections found this 3/21/2008 on royalsblog.kansascity.com [flag]
This is the final installment of the Roundtable, which I hope becomes an annual or maybe even semi-regular feature here at Ball Star. For a refresher on who we're talking to, click here. In Part 1 , we got personal. In Part 2 we got opinions. Here in Part 3, we get predictions. And while you're here, how bowt entering the First Very Official Ball Star Over-Under Challenge? . Triple crown stats ... [link]

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Royals Roundtable
Published 3/21/2008 by Lee Warren at Royal Reflections
... Star blog for the past several days. Several Royals bloggers, myself included, and a couple of other baseball writers have been participating in the discussions and it's been a blast. If you haven't had a chance to read the roundtable posts yet, here are links to all three discussions we've had: Ball Star Roundtable, Part 1 (Getting to know the participants) Ball Star Roundtable, Part 2 (Guillen, catchers, Sweeney, more) Ball Star Roundtable, Part 3 (2008 Predictions) The panel consists of: ...

Blogging with the Enemy: Questions for the KC Star's Sam Mellinger
Published 3/27/2008 by Ian Casselberry at Bless You Boys: Front Page Posts
... his bio states, Mellinger has been writing at the Star since 2000 and been covering the Royals since 2006.  He began Ball Star almost two months ago, and has been posting must-read stuff ever since.  (Highlights include the first interview with Michael Schur after he outed himself as Fire Joe Morgan's Ken Tremendous, getting Brian Bannister to admit he listens to Michael Buble, and a Royals blogger roundtable.) Sam was generous (bored?) enough to take a break from his ...

43-52; David DeJesus Can Walk All the Way to Grass Creek
Published 7/13/2008 by royalsreview at Royals Review: Front Page Posts
  via d.yimg.com Video of David's HR here. The home run was David's tenth of the season, setting a new career high. Sometimes you can see these things coming. McDonald: Butler: 18 HRs, 78 RBI, .277 BA. (with weird playing time patterns early and then a second-half tear) Gordon: 23 HRs, 91 RBI, .282 BA. Teahen: 13 HRs, 62 RBI, .295 BA. DeJesus: 13 HRs, 65 RBI, .288 BA. Wow, these all look weird and inaccurate. I'm confident we'll see a ...

Game 98: Kansas City @ Chicago
Published 7/20/2008 by Lee Warren (noreply@blogger.com) at Royal Reflections
... Meche is slowly beginning to redeem a poor start to the season. After his performance last night, he lowered his ERA to 4.55 and he's inching toward a .500 record. I expected his ERA to be over 4.00 this season; I was just hoping he'd approach 15 wins. At 7-9, he still has a shot. Before the season started, I predicted that he'd win 15 games and have a 4.48 ERA. We'll see how that turns out. ...

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