TKC QUESTION TONIGHT: WILL KANSAS CITY ROYALS WELL ON THEIR WAY TO WINNING WORLD SERIES MAKE YOUR LIFE BETTER???
Quick pet peeve to share tonight . . . I always hate it when people say "we" won a game when referring to the successful outcome of a sporting event.
The Royals won the game. Odds are if you're reading this blog . . . YOU didn't win anything tonight.
Sure, sports is about suspension of belief and it's a nice distraction from real life but the fact that a team full of millionaires gave a shellacking in a 7-1 victory to another team of millionaires for the benefit of billionaire corporate owners is hard to get excited about . . .
This is a life changing event for the Royals . . . The fans are just lucky that stories of more fungus burger haven't hit the media.
This might be redemption for an organization that previously suffered a generation of consistent FAIL . . . But fans aren't probably gonna get anything out of this but a sore throat and a hangover like a party girl on Sunday morning . . . Ewwwwww.
Most importantly, this victory is going to used and abused by just about every politico in town in order to garner more tax subsidy, good vibes and free publicity when none of them swung a bat tonight, either.
In the psychology biz, this phenomena sometimes called "transference" and explains a great deal of our society's delusions in the digital era.
Still, because this is the only blog in Kansas City that loves you and that you love in return, we want to help you move beyond emotions programmed by the MSM.
A quick reality check . . .
- No, most of those people on Facebook really aren't your friends and you actually don't have much of anything in common with them.
- The Royals victory was really fun to watch but probably didn't change your life for the better or worse.
- Neither Johnny Cueto nor Mike Moustakas talk or think about YOU as much as you entertain their success.
And so the Royals organization celebrates an impressive win tonight while millions of people mistakenly believe that their patronage and investment of time and treasure did anything but enrich an already wealthy ownership class.
Links:
Fox Sports: Cueto's two-hitter sends Royals over Mets for 2-0 Series lead
USA: Kansas City a Royal pain for Mets
New York Times: Royals Rout Mets to Take 2-0 Lead in World Series
Developing . . .
WE won, you lost.
ReplyDeleteGame over TKC. I'm going to Disney land.
Quick correction for you TKC.
ReplyDeleteThe people making counterfeit t-shirts are winning BIG this time of year. The little guy can get ahead but it ain't pretty. Lighten up, you're bringing me down.
I really wish you would start tracking IPs, I would be willing to pay you for an e-mail address to that New Yorker who showed up last night talking all that smack.
ReplyDeleteLooks like he was all the way wrong.
GO ROYALS!
You really need to find a lace Tony where you could find happiness.
ReplyDeleteIf there is such a place.
Ebola soon?
I hope Mike Sanders get back soon from that extended vaction.
I don't watch or follow baseball.
ReplyDeleteGo Mets! Enjoy the premature victory dance. It's over once this series is transferred to NY. Enjoy the false, negative.
ReplyDeleteI hate this blog. But I check it out anyway.
ReplyDelete^^^^^^^^
ReplyDeleteKeep reading and commenting for another 10 years and maybe you can win with your complaints against TKC.
You are really making great strikes with your constant patronage. I just read this blog for the boobage. Sweet boobage.
Could care less about baseball, and sports in general.
ReplyDeleteWatch the royals choke.
ReplyDeleteWE WON!
ReplyDeleteIt's a win for everyone who wants to watch you wallow in your niggerloving misery, yeah! We all win!
ReplyDelete@10:47 has a very twisted johnny cueto man cruch. Racist bitch watching from a trailer park. I'm sure the mexican loves you raising his hit count.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna go read Mellinger, at least he makes me smile.
ReplyDeleteMay your suffering be slow and painful, Tony.
ReplyDeleteGo Royals.
This season is about redemption. The royals are redeeming themselves for all those losing seasons 30 years later, Cueto redeemed himself for an earlier bad performance. Hosmer made up for an error. We are making Kansas City great again. Will you help or support this effort Tony? Do you hate KC or will you take part in OUR success? That is the question.
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ReplyDeleteMouse in your pocket?
Tony is unwelcome to take part in this exhibition of civic pride.
ReplyDeleteNigger go 'way
God DAMN, Tony. You could ruin even the best fapping-to-your-near-naked-women-on-tonyskansascity orgasm. GIVE THE ROYALS BASHING A REST! Sheesh. It's practically the only thing good that comes from my tax money....
ReplyDeleteWasn't the winning pitcher black?
ReplyDeleteDamn, racists are stupid!
Jeez Tony, relax a little bit dude. I'm not a huge sports fan but its all good, as in good for the morale of the city.Its not necessary to be totally serious 100% of the time.
ReplyDeleteThe State runs on this kind of bullshit. Sports Franchises, Prisons, anything to keep the trucks running for the vendors.
ReplyDelete10:57 for the win.
ReplyDeleteSuch a miserable life, Tony. But why do you insist that everybody also wallow in your misery?
ReplyDeleteThe Royals right now are a shared experience that a whole heck of a lot of people can -- and are -- enjoying immensely.
Has it made my life better? Oh yeah! And my entire family as we gathered around the TV all year long to watch this magic season unfold.
There's a little word that describes it perfectly. F-U-N.
We're having it. In abundance. OK, you're not a baseball fan. I get that. You don't care.
But you might talk to that shrink who told you about "transference" some more, and ask him or her why you feel compelled to "transfer" your feelings of isolation and worthlessness to everything you write and to everyone you think you can.
I get it, Tony. You are a very unhappy person. And you just can't stand the fact you see so many happy people around you.
It is logical for human beings to identify with everything from family, neighborhoods, religions, to sports teams to the color of their skin and the connotations carried by the culture of the object of identification.
ReplyDeleteThe degree of that identification, or, "transference" (keep in mind, Freud, wants you to "Oedipus" your mom Tony, for HIS validation.), will vary and is, for the most part, perfunctory. This same identity is an important atavistic survival technique, which keeps us safe when confronted by alien and dangerous cultures.
There are no doubt, many folks who cheered Lawrence Phillips on every Sunday, but wouldn't want them living next door for obvious reasons.
Percentages count. First pitch fast balls are a loser when facing the Royals, just don't throw them.
Stay away from guys like Lawrence Phillips and you can identify all you want with the local team from the comfort of your living room.
This blog will disappear once Tony Botello is dead, he has no legacy. He will die bitter and alone.
ReplyDeleteBut you check the blog first thing every morning, right?
ReplyDeleteYep
ReplyDeleteWhat's that prove, 7:18? A lot of people check the blog because they like seeing a blowhard make an ass out of himself.
ReplyDeleteYou going to pretend that makes Tony powerful and influential?
Not just Tony. Look at the know-nothing blowhards he regularly features -- Clay Chastain, Toni Bones, Craig Glazer, Alonzo Washington . . .
ReplyDelete718=Tony's bitch. Pretty similar in the misery indicator and loves farts and sommeliers for man crush reasons.
ReplyDelete@8:07 - If you didn't like so much you wouldn't read it all the time. The only man crush here is you. You are Tony's legacy. He lives in your heart. Along with all the cottage cheese.
ReplyDeleteI just come here to read the comments from all the people who come here to complain how the blog sucks. It's like the little old ladies who complain about the food in restaurants they hate and yet they go there every day.
ReplyDeleteIf it weren't for this blog, those whiny twits would have no life.
Man in my house, we are having the time of our lives watching this very special team play a brand of baseball we haven't seen since steroids hit baseball. Any true fan of the game (regardless of your favorite team) is appreciating what the Royals are doing this postseason.
ReplyDeleteWhat a run!
GO ROYALS!!!!
In my humble abode we drink ourselves stupid and then take turns sharing bodily fluids whenever there is a pop up fly ball. It really is a great time to be alive.
ReplyDeleteFunny how Paco spends the year dissing the Royals, and when he finds himself on the wrong side of a 2-0 WS deficient, he pivots and changes the issue to how meaningless the game is.
ReplyDeleteIt really is like arguing with an 8 year old who wont accept "no".
Lesson....the objectionable, piss ant kid you can't stand is the blogger of tomorrow.
Tony you act like a flaming queer! You have no control over, nor can you take an ounce of credit for the Royal's success so you immediately try to diminish their accomplishments.
ReplyDeleteI guess the only thing that will bring you around is for Slugerrr to put on a dress, march across the field and declare he is coming out.
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ReplyDeleteI love the Royals but I have to admit that would make the game a lot more interesting.