“I think it’s safe to say I’ve seen us at our absolute worst,” he said, “and our absolute best, all in the span of the last five weeks. That’s a little amazing.
“I’m guessing we’re not as bad as that 12-game losing streak, and we’re not quite as good as the run we’ve just been on. I think we’re somewhere in the middle, obviously.”
It’s not that Moore minded the Royals’ recent surge of success. But he would like to see the Royals lose the streakiness mode.
“The good teams don’t view themselves as hot or as cold,” Moore said. “They just approach every day as a new game that they should win.”
Is that how they did it in Atlanta?
“Bobby Cox was very good at establishing that mind-set,” Moore said. “You look at each game as something with a different script. It’s not what you just got through doing, whether or not you’re on a hot streak or cold streak, it’s just that day and that game that matters.
“That’s when you know you’ve arrived as a good team.”
The name game
•The NHL’s Dallas Stars used their third-round draft pick recently on Scott Winkler, who played last season here in Kansas City for Russell Stover of the AAA Midget league. Winkler was born in Asker, Norway, and also grew up there.
•Former Central Missouri football star and current Dallas Desperados defensive lineman Colston Weatherington was named to the 2008 All-Arena Football League team.
•Overland Park native Steven Murphy hit the go-ahead homer in the Texas League All-Star game last week. Murphy is an outfielder with the Frisco RoughRiders, the Class AA affiliate of the Texas Rangers. Murphy is a 2002 graduate of Rockhurst High, where he was high school teammates with John Mayberry.
The forgotten man?
It wasn’t that long ago that first baseman Ryan Shealy was considered the first baseman of the future — that was in spring training of 2007. Now, Shealy barely comes up in conversations when discussing the Royals’ future at first base.
But Shealy is slowly and surely getting his stroke back. After a slow start, Shealy is now hitting .259 with 11 homers and 28 RBIs at Omaha.
“We haven’t lost track of him by any stretch,” Royals director of player development J.J. Picollo said. “He started slow, then picked it up, then tweaked his hamstring again and had to sit out for awhile.
“Now he’s back and he’s playing pretty well.”
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