Showing posts with label Lorenzo Cain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lorenzo Cain. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Disease Slow Creep

OF Lorenzo Cain
Kansas City Royals
Rarely does chickenpox hit the clubhouse of a Major League Baseball team, but it hit the Kansas City Royals in Tampa this weekend. Just so happens, we were visiting with the team pregame on Sunday.

It is amazing in this day and age something like this can happen, particularly among a professional sports team with unlimited medical staff, but outfielder Alex Rios and relief pitcher Kelvin Herrera were sent home from Tampa over the weekend. The team is monitoring the situation closely.

It is worth noting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who outside of an outstanding performance by linebacker Lavonte David, looked horrible Saturday night at Tampa Stadium in a blowout preseason loss to the Cleveland Browns, had significant cases of MRSA in their locker room three or four years ago. In fact, MRSA may have been a factor in ending the career of offensive lineman Carl Nicks, who contracted the disease.

With illegal, yes, illegal, immigration on the boiler plate of the political arena these days, the potential impact on our citizenry of these illegal immigrants carrying disease as they come across the border without any checkpoint is enormous.

A slow creep of disease throughout our nation seems imminent.

One would think our elected leaders would find the protection of the American citizens paramount, but with the Obama administration, more concern is placed upon the dismantling of America power, the gaining of a political advantage from expanding their voting base and transferring the wealth from those that earned it through entitlement program to those who have not.

Karl Marx would be so proud.

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Give Them All The Credit


The Kansas City Royals are World Series bound for the first time since 1985, the last time the Royals made the postseason. The 29 year drought is over, and the celebration in the Power & Light District is just beginning.

Kansas City swept the AL East champion Baltimore Orioles 4-0, becoming the first team in history to win eight consecutive playoff games to start the postseason. Outfielder Lorenzo Cain won the MVP trophy.

But during this unimaginable run, it has really been a total team effort.  One moment it is Mike Moustakis blasting a home run, or Jarrod Dyson stealing a base, or Alex Gordon making a highlight reel catch, the next it is lumbering Billy Butler stealing a base, or fleet of foot power hitting Cain bunting to move the runners. Then there is the all around play of emerging superstar Eric Hosmer.

Apparent to anyone watching, this team feeds off one another and is enjoying every minute of it. The team is an excellent example of how a cohesive locker room of people who individually make up a great team.

With the Royals baseball home located at the Harry S. Truman Sports Complex, it is surely appropriate to quote President Truman, who once said "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

Cain may have appropriately won the MVP, but give them all the credit.  They deserve it.

‪#‎TakeTheCrown, #BeRoyal