The Missing Link: Substandard Mid-Week Filler

First off, holy shit was Corey Ettinger busy on Monday. Over the course of a few hours, he got Prospect Profiles for Wil Myers, Salvador Perez, and the belle of the ball, Eric Hosmer over at AL Central In Focus. These are always very good. Seriously, you should at least be reading his Royals content, even if you don't give a damn about those other dastardly teams in the Central.

Peter Gammons dropped the following tweet Monday evening:

"The Royals are so deep in talent," says a GM, "that a couple of their top guys can miss and they'll still be in it in 2013."

Nevermind that the source is likely Dayton Moore, this is one more morsel that we can chew on, get empty calories out of, and likely expel violently when the meal that is Royal fandom once again chooses to disagree with our digestive systems. If I am getting my hopes up for contention in two years, letting my excitement build for two whole years, only to have this rebuild fail I will become an even more horrible person than I already am.

Over at C70 At The Bat, Daniel Shoptaw asked some of the Royals bloggers (Brian McGannon of Royals Kingdom, Matt Kelsey at I70 Baseball, Michael Engel at Kings of Kauffman, me, Ray W at Royals on the Radio, Etc., and Jeff Parker at Royally Speaking (answers in that order)) a series of questions about the current incarnation of the Royals. Enthusiasm of the collective abounding here. My year-end prediction is arguably the least optimistic of the group. Also, I responded weeks ago, and my calling him The Mexicutioner actually happened before Soria's request that the use of the nickname cease.

At The Hardball Times, Chris Jaffe is inspired by the 10,000th day that Zack Greinke has walked the Earth to look at franchise leaders in victories since 1969. Moral of the story, it could be worse. We could have all been Brewers fans...

And to top it off, Greinke did the closest thing he could to emulate Monta Ellis or Vladimir Radmanovic, fracturing a rib and bruising another playing basketball. What is there to say about this?