AH, nice weather!!!

I don't know what it is about the weather getting warmer, whether it makes me think about baseball or just being outside doing whatever you do outside.  And as my man Boston Rob just told me, he needs to get outside because his grass is about up to his shins!! "Your gonna need a Bush Hog for that!"  All I know is that it is great that the weather is getting warmer and we are catching some breaks from the bad weather we had last month.  After all the rain outs and postponements, we still had a great April with our average attendace growing 17% from last year.  That is great and it is a combination of everybody in the office that contributes to the success of the Royals. 

The Royals have been in a funk lately with losses coming in bunches.  They were in 1st place when they left for Fresno and have been slumping lately.  I don't know if they play better baseball with bad weather or what, but I think it is tough going to the nice sunny west coast and then coming back to sub 50 weather in Omaha.  I will have to admit that this past weekend was a beautiful weekend with weather in the upper 80's!!  I was able to get on the golf course and get some rays and hit some balls which was nice.  It is always good to get on the golf course and hit the ball as hard as you can and see where it goes.  I don't believe I will have a chance to do that this weekend with the weather going to be in the low 60's and rainy, but you never know.

The games have been going good, with the pictures from April now up on the main website, oroyals.com!  Get on there and check them out, I would like your input to what else I need to take and if they are good enough to be on there.  There will soon be May photos up there where you can see all of the great things that has happened so far in the month of May.

One of the coolest things I have done this year happened last night during the game.  We were playing the Iowa Cubs and some of the front office staff of the Kansas City Royals were in town.  Well one of the t.v. stations wanted an interview, and I had to make sure that it happened so I had to check on them to see how things were going and if the interview went well.  It happened to be that Dayton Moore was in town who is the GM of the Kansas City Royals and if you don't know anything about Dayton, he is one of the smartest and youngest GM's in Major League Baseball and was a important part for the decade success of the Atlanta Braves.  He is now taking the Kansas City Royals to power with his procedures and protocols which will make the Royals a dominant force in the American League.  Well I had a chance to speak with him and check on how him and rest of the staff were doing.  I didn't want to bother them with the game going on so I just introduced myself and told them to get with me if they needed anything and turned and was going to walk out.  He stopped me and wanted to know if I had visited Ty Cobb's hometown in Georgia and if I had ever been down in that area.  It was a nice short conversation that I had with Dayton about Ty Cobb and it was awesome to just be talking with one of the smartest baseball people I have learned about.  Hopefully I will have more oppurtunities to chat with him and maybe in the future, work under him.  You have to love this warm weather, you never know what's going to happen!!