The Royals & the Chiefs

After a bad stretch, 7 losses in a row to two struggling teams (Oakland and Cleveland), the boys in blue rebounded over the weekend and took two out of three from Toronto. Pitching isn't the problem so much as timely hitting and smart 'heads-up' baseball. A couple of mental mistakes cost them a shot at a sweep on Sunday... Guillen swinging at a first-pitch ball after the pitcher had just walked two in a row, Guillen throwing through to second allowing a runner to score from first on a single, Pena and Guillen leting a popup drop. Wow, I seem to be calling Guillen's name a lot. He's suffering from the 12 million dollar price tag. For 12 mil, you gotta perform every day to appear worth it... and nobody can do that in the game of professional baseball. See Barry Zito.

That's why no player is worth 12 million. Especially in a small market like Kansas City. The expectations are too great.

On to the 2008 NFL draft. The Chiefs, through bad management (4-12 record in 2007) and questionable trades (Jared Allen to the Vikings), ended up with 2 first round picks, a second round, and 3 third round picks. Die-hard fans were about evenly split amongst two opinions.

1) Carl Peterson, a notorious draft botcher, would find a way to botch even this bountiful draft

and 2) Not even Carl Peterson, a notorious draft botcher, could completely botch this bountiful draft.

I lean towards 2) and feel somewhat optimistic after the Chiefs took two pretty much can't miss players in the first round. Glenn Dorsey and Branden Albert are, by nearly all accounts, two pro-bowl franchise anchor type players. Of course injury and poor handling (something else Peterson has a rep for) can always occur...