It's been a while since we've been able to unearth anything groundbreaking from the Royals.  After the Yuni-Gate transcript was released, many of our contacts dried up (or we been busy, and haven't had a chance to make something up).

In any event, we've finally discovered an internal document that was presented to David Glass as a part of the 2008 end of the year review.  This lead to the massive amount of money spent on players like Mike Jacobs, Kyle Farnsworth, Juan Cruz and Willie Bloomquist in the offseason leading up to 2009.

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Well, it's been a while since we've unearthed a Royals transcript, and not much interesting has happened in the meantime.  Let's see, Ron Mahay got traded, Aaron Crow just signed, and the Royals have gone on a late season winning streak in an attempt to ease the sting of the ineptitude seen throughout the season.  That's about it.  

Oh, we had a few more defenses of "The Process", a few more Trey-isms, and a lot more losses.  But despite the lack of events, I apologize for the transcripts going missing throughout July and August.  I guess you could say I went all Mark Teahen on you.   (Ba-dump-ching!) 

Anyway, in an attempt to restart the series, here's the latest transcript we've been unable to unearth --  this one coming from the organization's internal post-season awards banquet.  Hope you enjoy.

Dayton:  Good evening everyone.  You may have noticed that we are having the awards ceremony a little early this year as there are still a handful of games remaining.  Honestly, we've got a lot of work to do this offseason and wanted to get a jump start on it as soon as possible.  Besides, the awards were pretty much decided anyway, there's no reason to delay gratification for a job well done.

As many have noted, we had a rough season this year in terms of wins and losses.  But that's only one way to judge things -- a better way would be to look at our own personal growth.  We've learned how to deal with failure, which means we've won at something more important: our lives.  Everyone really a winner in that sense -- not in terms of wins and losses of course, which really isn't a fair way to judge us at this point in the process, but it terms of personally.  The front office as well. 

We've also learned to deal with mistakes and failure and internalize the lessons learned.  We had a postmortem analysis on the season several weeks ago, but we may need to change our finding based on the hot September.  Our initial findings were telling us that we have a lot of work to do to prepare for next season, but the last couple of weeks have brought it full circle and seem to be saying "Trust the Process."

So, with that, don't think of this 90+ loss season as a failure, think of it as winning at learning one of life lessons."

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Through the magic of instant messaging, we can bring you the events that led to the trade of Yuniesky Betancourt + cash to the Royals for Daniel Cortes and Derrick Saito.  This is the third transcript we've been able to unearth so far -- first was opening day recap, followed by the tweets being made on Twitter during the April 20th game.

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During the offseason, I put together a spreadsheet which looked at the Royals offense over the past 10 years.  It started out as a project to look at how the Royals lineup had performed with regards to RBI, but ended up showing how the overall lineup had performed. 

At the end of the fanpost, I compared the past 10 years to the CHONE projections for the everyday starting lineup based on Trey's anticipated lineups.  Now that we're about 1/3 of the way through the season, it's probably a good time to revisit the CHONE projections versus the actual results.

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