Seriously Trey what were you thinking???

Well you know it is spring when the boys in blue hit the diamond and Royals fans (including me) feel like the team has a chance to compete. Even though it was 38 degrees and Opening Day was pushed a day for snow I was pumped up and excited for what could be a special season for the Royals...then like always I was quickly proven wrong.

I may not be a great baseball mind but Trey Hillman has a long way to go to catch up with the great baseball minds. Maybe I am just old school (at the wise old age of 27) but 91 pitches from your ace who made a batter look foolish in his last inning of work is a pretty light day. Gil Meche was cruising and if it said Brinkman on the back of the jersey Gil would have come out for the 8th...no questions asked. There would be two arms warming in the frigid weather...Ron Mahay and Jokim Soria.

I heard people say there are 161 left...true...its only one game...correct...but its Opening Day. Its the beginning of a new season. The new K, hope for a good team, actual excitement pre-season for the first time in my memory. Trey you do everything to win the game...pull out all the stops. Kyle Farnsworth wasn't effective and you leave him in to face a hall of famer who OWNS the Royals. When Thome took the 2-0 pitch there was one thought in my mind...don't throw the heat, the rest is history.

Is this the "New Royals" or just another team that will raise the hope of Kansas City fans just to beat them down. I am hoping for the first option but really think this team will tease me for a while, get me excited and knock me out. I plan to visit the "New K" as much as possible this season and hope I don't see "Fire Trey" signs before the summer heat erases our memory of a freezing/disappointing Opening Day.