Greinke Trade Jeremy Jeffress Pot Smoker

Royals Trade Greinke for 3 Unknowns and one Pothead
by Kansas City News

Ah, those wily Royals, once again they have brought up a young player to greatness and .... well.....then they uh......gave him to another team.  Seems like the logical thing to do, right?  The names of famous ex Royal players keeps adding up and currently includes Johnny Damon, Jermaine Dye, Carlos Beltran, and now Zack Greinke - who will no doubt go on to achieve great success with other teams after giving us a lackluster year in 2010.  What an odd pattern the Royals have of waiting until their players are really starting to produce and then immediately get rid of them.  I understand that most of the players would have moved on of their own accord and that the Royals had to offer up trades while interest was high and the most could be gained by letting them go, but it just seems that the Royals do this more often than any other MLB team.

In today's trade, the Royals sent Zack Greinke packing to the Milwaukee Brewers along with our shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt and in return they received a basket of cash, Lorenzo Cain, Alcides Escobar, Jake Odorizzi, and Jeremy Jeffress.  Lorenzo Cain is slotted to take over in center field, he was a 17th round draft pick by the Brewers and batted for .306 in 2010.  Alcides Escobar will replace Betancourt at short stop, Jake Odorizzi is a young prospect that will spend some time on the bench before we see him, and of course then there's Jeremy Jeffress, who was suspended multiple times in Milwaukee for violating the league substance abuse testing positive for marijuana.

Jeremy Jeffress, a right handed pitcher chosen in 2006 by the Milwaukee Brewers in the first round of the amateur draft - whatever the hell that is - and is most widely known in the sports world for his marijuana habit.  Jeffress was suspended 3 times for testing positive for marijuana.  He was suspended for a total of 150 games over the last 3 years for violation of the MLB substance abuse policy.

The Royals were very instrumental in the development of Zack Greinke, including a brief period when Greinke was having anxiety issues and even considered quitting baseball all together.  Greinke was diagnosed with SAD or Social Anxiety Disorder and is on anti-depressant medication.  I suppose if it's ok for Zack to pitch while heavily medicated on anti-depression medication, then it should be ok for Jeremy Jeffress to pitch while smoking blunts on the mound.  Hey, let's not forget that Dock Ellis once pitched a no hitter for the Pirates while on LSD!  Go Royals!

Snow Creek Opens for 25th Season

Snow Creek, near Weston, MO opened in 1986 giving this part of the country it's first ski area. It opened up on Friday to start the 25th season of operation. They currently have a 3-5 foot base of snow, and are making snow daily. The cold weather we are having is ideal for the snow making machines and they have state of the art snow groomers. Snow Creek has the capacity to make 12" of snow in a day under ideal conditions (20 degrees).

All day lift tickets are available for $40, an additional $29 for ski rental. Children 6 and under get free lift tickets and $25 rental. They also have special priced sessions such as Family Fun Nights, College Night, Military Appreciation, and this year they are commemerating their 25th Aniversary with specially priced midnight sessions. Details can be found here.

It is a great place for beginners, with instruction available - or just to warm up for your trip to Colorado. For directions, click here.

Snow Creek
PO Box 567
Weston, MO 64098
816-640-2200

Kansas City Zoo Meerkat Mystery Solved

Jacob Bradley and Justin Santhuff thought they were going to the Kansas City Zoo to steal a cuddly, unique pet. On November 4th, the two knuckleheads went to the Zoo with a stroller and a cage hidden under the blanket. Santhuff allegedly jumped into the open air Meerkat exhibit in the Africa section of the Zoo and grabbed one of the Meerkats. They put it in the cage and pushed it out of the Zoo. Mission Accomplished.

Problem is, of course, Meerkats are wild animals and don't make good pets as our fine young Kansas Citians soon discovered. On the way home, Santhuff appenrently made a comment about how cute the little guy was and was promptly bitten harshly on the finger. The fellows took the Meerkat to the Trailer Park (big suprise) where they lived and kept it in a glass aquarium. They fed it cat food, but soon realized what smelly little bastards Meerkats are. They dropped the little guy off at an area pet store - the pet shop notified the Zoo - and the Meerkat was home.

These two morons probably would have gotten away with it if they hadn't bragged about it on the Facebook page (as you do). They now sit in Jail under a $5000 bond each. Both are charged with one count of Felony Theft.

Matt Cassel to Start on Sunday vs. St. Louis

Matt Cassel to Start on Sunday vs. St. Louis
by Kansas City News

I'm going to go ahead and call it - after listening to coach Todd Haley's interview today it really looks like Matt Cassel is going to be a go for Sunday.  The Chiefs are looking at this game as the biggest game they have faced so far this year - not because of the weak ass Rams, but because the game means so much now that the 49rs couldn't figure out how to stop the Chargers.  I don't want to hear any more about how great the 49rs defense is - NO GOOD - they suck ass.

We will be the first news source to announce the starting of Matt Cassel, and we hope that Matt feels well on Sunday and can lead us to victory.  Further into the interview today Haley mentions that he is preparing "multiple quarterbacks" for Sunday, showing us that he does not trust Brody Croyle and that he is probably taking applicants from people on the street to play the QB role for the Chiefs.

No matter who is playing QB this week, we need to throw the ball early and often so that the St. Louis defense doesn't get comfortable early in keying on our running game - like we did vs the Chargers last Sunday - sheesh - let's just telegraph exactly what we're going to do - idiots.  The Chiefs running game shouldn't even be featured until the 2nd quarter at the earliest.

Michael Richards Not So Racist Rant

Michael Richards Rant Not So Racist After All
by Kansas City News

As many of you know, the comedian / actor known mostly for his role as "Kramer" in the number 1 sitcom of all time "Seinfeld" was doing a stand up act at The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles when he became irritated at a table full of black people who were talking loudly, bee-bowin', scattin', rappin' and monkeying around during his act.  Richards stopped the whole show to address the people at the table and eventually broke out into a rant that most people considered racist.

Do me a favor and watch this clip again.  Here it is, I'll wait...

Michael Richards calls table full of rude people talking during his show Niggers

Now notice that the table full of Jigs also calls Richards a "Cracker" - funny, no one mentioned that.  No, they drag out Spike Lee and other stupid black leaders and Richards is advised to apologize to these fools.  No one EVER mentions the fact that the table full of monkeys calls Richards a "Cracker".  To me this was an equal argument - both sides were offensive and for a while the audience actually laughs about it.  I think that the half wit reverend Jesse Jackson and the rest should issue an apology to Michael Richards for being racist to him.  Funny how one sided this argument was.  Richards should have NEVER apologized for this - Rock On Michael - you have more talent in your little pinkie than any of those idiots have in their entire affirmative action bodies.