Category Archives: Sports
Leftridge: Will the Royals Blow the Trade Deadline by Pretending to be Contenders?
Because it is mid-to-late July, I am obligated by the Internet Sportswriter Code to talk about whether my city’s baseball team should be A) buyers, B) sellers, or C) do nothingers as the league’s trade deadline approaches. The Royals are … Continue reading
Leftridge: Royals May be Faltering, but Hey, They’ve Got Three All Stars
Look, we all know that the Major League Baseball All Star Game is a TOTAL waste of time. It’s usually boring and nobody plays hard and, despite the recent-ish rule that the winning side secures home field advantage for their … Continue reading
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Tagged All Star Game, Brandon Leftridge, KC Royals, RIP Alex Gordon
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Leftridge: Royals Headed to World Series, Clearly
It’s sad that it feels like the Kansas City Royals just won the World Series, but it is what it is. When fans—and the organization as a whole—have been so beaten and battered with perpetual disappointment, sole possession of first … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Leftridge, FIRST PLACE ROYALS, KC Royals
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Leftridge: Draft Happens, Royals Draft a Player
Because the Kansas City Royals didn’t absolutely suck at everything last year, the were sullied with the 17th pick in this year’s draft. And with that pick, they selected left-handed pitcher Brandon Finnegan from TCU. Finnegan—a diminutive man who was … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Leftridge, KC Royals, Manaea, MLB draft, Zimmer
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Leftridge: Moustakas Needs Help and Moore Blows Goats
Mike Moustakas is not good right now. He hasn’t been good this whole season, and frankly, he wasn’t very good last season, either. In fact, statistically speaking, he is one of the worst everyday hitters in the Major Leagues. Oh … Continue reading
Leftridge: Well, it’s the NFL Draft, or Whatever
I officially don’t give a shit about the NFL Draft. Maybe it’s the fact that it now seems to be a month-long process teeming with pre-draft shows leading up to the actual event. Video vignettes about how a 400-pound orphan … Continue reading
Leftridge: April Royals Recap: The Kids Are Alright
The Royals’ month of April was almost exactly how I would have scripted it, if someone came along and asked me to script how this season would start. (And yes, I understand that, much like the hypothetical situation of someone … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Leftridge, KC Royals, recap, Yordano Ventura
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Leftridge: Chiefs Release Schedule, Could Go…All…The…Way!
Shortly after Easter—when Christ was risen from a grave-cave with a giant boulder in front of it?—the true Holy Day for football fans occurred: Commissioner Roger Goodell descended from Mount Lombardi and shone unto his Zubaz’d believers the 2014 NFL … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Leftridge, greatest dynasty ever, KC chiefs, NFL Schedule
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Leftridge: Royals Look Like Royals After 15 Games
So the Royals are above .500 again, and all of the nut-jobs that were predicting a World Series victory (or at the very least, a WS appearance) are back from the ledge… This is good, as I hate to see … Continue reading
Leftridge: BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS (It’s Opening Day)
Never mind the fact that, as I write this, it’s in the mid-30s outside, with a wind that makes it feel positively Arctic… Forget that the Royals are 0-2 on the season, with gut-wrenching losses that came in the ninth … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Leftridge, Go Royals!, Kia salesman, Mendy Lopez, Opening Day
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Leftridge: Bring on the Baseball
It’s finally upon us. The start of baseball’s glorious regular season is so close that if it were an umpire, Roberto Alomar would have no problem hitting it with a disease-riddled loogie. (Timely reference, to be sure.) But all phlegming … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014 Prediction, Brandon Leftridge, KC Royals
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Leftridge: Royals’ Rotation Figures to be a Mixed Bag
To the surprise of nobody—and to the consternation, perhaps, of only those who dislike things that are totally awesome—fire-balling phenom Yordano Ventura has officially been named as the final starter in the 2014 Kansas City Royals rotation. Call it the … Continue reading
Leftridge: NFL Free Agency Starts, Chiefs Departing Left and Right
As is custom this time of year, the NFL free agency period is underway. There have been some big (though mostly unexpected) moves, like the Chicago Bears releasing DE Julius Peppers, the Dallas Cowboys releasing DE DeMarcus Ware (who is … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Leftridge, free agency, John Dorsey, KC chiefs
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Leftridge: Royals’ Surprise Report (Surprise, I’m Not There)
Once upon a time, John Lamb was the future of the Royals. He threw a vicious fastball with movement, and he did it with his left hand. Baseball America said he was the 18th best prospect in 2011. Shortly after … Continue reading
Leftridge: Welp, Here Come the Olympics
I’m a hypocrite. I get it, and I’m okay with this… See, in last week’s Super Bowl preview piece, I spent a lot of words on the ridiculousness of media week, and specifically, on the “human interest” side of football. … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Leftridge, Elvis Stojko, Olympics, Russia
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Leftridge: Let’s Just Play the Super Bowl, Already
The worst part about the Super Bowl isn’t when they trot out the washed-up and/or hardly appealing “stars” for the halftime show… Nor is it the desolate stretch of barren time between the conclusion of the conference championship games and … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Leftridge, cleft palate, NFL, Super Bowl
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Leftridge: The Completely Hilarious Thing That Richard Sherman Did
So by now, you’ve seen it… You saw it live or you saw Karen Kornacki blathering about it, or maybe you saw it on social media or Jim Rome has already released some sort of “hot take” on it. But … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Leftridge, racism, Richard Sherman, Seahawks
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Leftridge: Your Conference Championship Winners
Even though the Chiefs are in decompression mode—quickly losing focus with video games, weed, unhealthy eating habits and extended excursions to exotic locales—that doesn’t mean the world ends. It doesn’t mean that there still isn’t some fantastic playoff football to … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Leftridge, Denver, NFL Playoffs, Seattle
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Leftridge: Totally Solid 2014 Sports Predictions
2013 was a year of tragedy, triumphant and tribulation in the sports world. Blah, blah, blah. Okay, it was mostly like any other year, really, which always seems to include equal measures of sorrow and agony as well as jubilation … Continue reading
Leftridge: Chiefs Lose, How They’re Like Breaking Bad (Hear Me Out)
I was going to sit down and write about the Chiefs’ loss. How it makes me feel. How it ripped my heart out and shat all over it, unceremoniously. How it’s not surprising, but it’s no less disheartening. How we … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Leftridge, Breaking Bad, KC chiefs, playoffs?!?
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