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Royals Pictures From Spring Training

Gordon, Butler, Hosmer:

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Gordon:

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Star-divide

More Gordon:

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Hosmer:

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Butler:

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Thanks to SBN for the images and carry on with your day.

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One of Hosmer's socks is slightly out of position

Time to panic.

HOSMER'S GLOVE IS ON THE WRONG HAND!!!!
This generally goes unnoticed because of how loosely baseball uniforms fit,

but Alex Gordon is fucking ripped.

...oh, I noticed.

AND HEY! Looks like everyone is in the best shape of their lives!

Ya I was getting ready to say

Butler looks like he is “in the best shape of his life” lol

In all fairness though...

he does look much more fit

I honestly can't tell if he is moer fit, or if I just think of him as fatter in my head.

The other day, I met up with a friend I hadn’t seen for a couple months and he asked “have you lost weight?”

“No. In fact, I gained 10 pounds since I last saw you.”

“Oh,” he said. “I guess I just think of you as a fat guy in my head.”

“I…I…hey, f*** you!”

Butler deserves some credit

It appears to me that, every year, he gets in better shape. I think it’s obvious he puts a lot of work in on his body from where he was as a rookie.

We need comparison photos.
He Came Into

Camp very slimmed down in 2010. Then, the Double Down happened……

Buck Talked About

“All those muscles walking around” in ’07.

Yeah, I know.

That’s why I was looking for it, but we don’t ever get to see it. This is serious confirmation.

It doesn't go unnoticed with him.

Maybe the calves a little, but it’s mostly noticed. Just ask my girlfriend.

I've always noticed how ridiculous his forearms are
But he's less muscular than years past

which is probably a good thing

As An Aside

My trip to Surprise turned into a new pressure tank. Yay running water!

you aren't going now?
No, I Just

Had to spend over $2,ooo.oo on my house, car and shoulder, At least the shoulder is better, finally. It looks like rest and a cortisone shot worked, at least for now.

well, that stinks

glad your shoulder is feeling better

all this makes me wish i played baseball for a living

gonna have to find a mens rec leagues in the area.

Interesting choice for Gordon.

Full sleeve on the glove arm?

Yeah, kind of interesting.

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that he has a reason.

HAPPY PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORT DAY!
OT: Soccer

FC Barcelona has pretty much blown the League after a loss to Osasuna. Real Madrid is virtually uncatchable. They’re still alive in the Spanish Cup, though, and in the Champions League, where they’re about to eliminate Bayer Leverkusen.

Note: There’s a conspiracy theory that says the Allies never bombed Leverkusen in WWII because they had an interest in the Bayer chemical/pharmaceutical plant there. Bogus, of course.

I Thought It

Was I.G. Farben,

Whatever. It's bogus.

They blew the crap out of everything they could in Germany without caring who it belonged to. Leverkusen, near the Ruhr, was probably hit a dozen times. All of Germany was bombed to rubble by May ’45.

My Wife Was

Born in Dulken on 5/3/45. I’ve heard a little about this. Dulken is about 60 KM from Dusseldorf, near the Dutch border.

5/3/45 would have been just about when the British got there
My Mother-In-Law Spent

Her pregnancy on trains moving from one bombed out city to another that was deemed safer. Many times, she got a seat because she was a young, pregnant blonde haired, blue-eyed woman. Her husband, Heinz, was a prisoner in eastern France. He broke both ankles to keep from going back into battle with the sorry remains of his battalion, and was captured. He probably would not have survived another battlefield. He and nearly all the troops in the field knew it was a lost cause by 1945. He was no fan of Hitler, or Stalin for that matter.

Good thing she was in the West, not the Soviet zone

It’s estimated that the Red Army raped some two million German women. The Wehrmacht packed it in in the West in March ’45 and held out to the death against the Soviets. Some 10% of the total casualties in the history of the Eastern Front happened in the Battle of Berlin.

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