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The Dugout: Opening Day

Posted: Apr 7th 2009 9:30PM by B. Thompson Stroud (author feed)
Filed under: Royals, White Sox, AL Central, The Dugout

There is no greater time than the beginning of baseball season, especially when you write for a sports blog and you happen to be so beloved by the Christian God that he manipulates the happenstance of professional sports to make your feature better.

That's exactly what happened today, when the Kansas City Royals opened up their season in Chicago against the White Sox. If you don't know what happened, allow me to set the stage. The White Sox and Royals were supposed to open the season on Monday, but the conditions weren't perfect and the stars weren't aligned, and a bitter cold forced them to postpone the game for a day. The Royals were up 2-1, but when the White Sox came up to bat in the eighth... well, I'll let you read about it, because hahaha

The 2009 Dugout Season starts tonight, after the jump.

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The Dugout: Watchmaker, Part Five

Posted: Feb 23rd 2009 3:25PM by B. Thompson Stroud (author feed)
Filed under: Royals, AL Central, The Dugout

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Watchmaker, Part One
Watchmaker, Part Two
Watchmaker, Part Three
Watchmaker, Part Four

And now, thanks to our annual Spring Dugout event quickly approaching and certain free agent signings not working out exactly like we planned them to, our less-epic-than-planned conclusion to the Kyle Farnsworth/Bill Pecota on Mars Watchmaker Saga. Please read the above links before continuing if you want to know what's going on. Or just go ahead and read this one by itself, because it's going to make as much sense that way as any.

Also included is a lengthy "Making of Watchmaker" special feature, content from the Yahoo Sports released "Under the Hat," and interviews with the cast and creators. Thank you for waiting patiently for over twenty years for this, folks! Watchmaker, part five, is after the jump.

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The Dugout: Out of the Cellar

Posted: Jul 6th 2008 11:10PM by B. Thompson Stroud (author feed)
Filed under: Royals, AL Central, Kansas City, The Dugout

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For those of you who have followed the Dugout from its infancy in the middle of a Progressive Boink article to its years of thankless cursing on WordUpThome.com and on to our announcement of our selling-out to Fanhouse in our sold-out engagement at Varsity Letters, you know two things to be true.

You know that the Royals would never climb out of last place, no matter how many dead bodies turned up in the fountains.

You also know that arguably our most popular character hasn't made the trip over to Fanhouse with the rest, partially because of how absurd he is in premise and execution and partially because of how we'd need to start over with his backstory and explain everything for those people who click a Dugout, check which team is featured, and leave a completely unrelated comment about how we should cheer for that team/fire that team's manager/visit their website.

Tonight, after the jump, two truths about The Dugout are destroyed and reborn. It's what you've been waiting for. Cheer for the Royals. And fire Trey Hillman.

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