As season one of the Kansas City Baseball Vault comes to a close, we spent our second to last show wondering what it was like growing up in Kansas City as a baseball fan in the 60's when Kansas City was home to such stars like Mickey Mantle, Lou Pinella and Diamond Jim Gentile. We spoke with Randy Herr, Jeff's father about just that. We also spoke with former KC A's First Baseman and six time All-Star Jim Gentile about his time with Kansas City, being a member of the Orioles Hall of Fame and the famed summer of 1961, when he went toe to toe with Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. Tune in next week for our final episode (on the 1510 side, at least) of the Kansas City Baseball Vault!

The Royals just had a decent road trip but still came away with a loss on Sunday, so the Royalman Report tried to hearken back to better days, then tried to come up with how to bring those good days back.

We talked with Kevin Scobee of Kings of Kauffman about the Royals hints about converting some relievers into starters. The conversation led to talking about Luke Hochevar and what's gone wrong, Kyle Zimmer and what's going right and what attributes of some relievers work best if they were asked to become starters.

We also talked about Billy Butler's power surge in 2012 and marveled at his consistency even in the middle of a breakout. Then we set our sights on Steve Balboni's record - and wallowed in the fact that we're still Royals fans, left behind while other small market teams challenge for playoff spots. Year Six...

The Kansas City Baseball Vault has always been dedicated to bringing you the best from the past, the present and the future. Tonight we had all three in the same show. We started off the show walking about the recently resurgent Royals, but has anyone noticed? Next we talked with 3-Time All-Star and Royals Hall of Famer, Short Stop Freddie Patek. We talked with him about the best Royals teams in history, what it was like to play for Mr. K and what he'd do to fix the current Royals. Next we talked with a future Royals outfielder, David Lough of the Omaha Stormchasers about what it's like to have a Magic Number, what it's going to take to break into the Kansas City outfield and how lounging by the pool makes up a day off. Finally we talked to Lough's roommate, Stormchasers Second Baseman Johnny Giavotella who has also spent time in Kansas City this season. We talked about what he's working on, what he's attributing his offensive success to and what he's doing to get better defensively. There you go, the best of the past, the present and the future, every week on the Kansas City Baseball Vault. Join us each week on ESPN 1510 am, Thursday's at 6pm.

Following a sweep-saving, extra-innings win by the Royals over the Rangers witnessed by the Royalmen from a Kauffman Stadium suite, we talked about Ned Yost's ultamatum and the DFA'ing of Yuniesky Bettancourt and the firing of Doug Sisson. Seems that the entire team is fixed now, right? Might've been a bit of sarcasm there. Regardless, we talked about it all and caught up with the rest of the minor leagues and reset several other storylines around the team. Join us every Sunday at RoyalmanReport.com or EKOHNetwork.com.

Jeff Logan and the Royalman Report guys were stood up by Joe Randa but they battled on. They looked around KC Baseball, Talked about Jason Adam, Ranted about closer mentality, talked about who, if anyone, should be put in the Royals HOF the next few years, talked about the resergance of Luis Mendoza and of course Frenchy, Yuni and Wil Myers.
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After a sweep by the Seattle Mariners and a "crap for crap" trade, the Dog Days of the Royals season are definitely here. Making not attempt to put lipstick on this pig, Troy and Chris talked about the doldrums the team is in and then during the second segment, were pleased to talk to a future Royal (we hope) Jason Adam of the Wilmington Blue Rocks. Jason talked to us about being the subject of trade rumors, his favorite parks to play in and even gave us a little impression of his favorite vendor at Blue Rocks stadium. Catch the Royalman Report every Sunday night live at royalmanreport.com and podcasted every Monday at royalmanreport.com and ekohnetwork.com as well as iTunes and Stitcher Radio.

On tonight's episode of the Kansas City Baseball Vault, the boys were faced with the harsh reality that the dog days of summer brings to the City - losing Royals Baseball. We were also joined by 65 year Professional Baseball veteran and former Kansas City Athletic, 81 year old Bill Fischer who also serves as the Senior Pitching Advisor to the Royals. Bill joined us from Burlington where he was scouting the likes of Bubba Starling. To close the show, Chris challenged the rest of the crew to point to one shining light for the rest of the season. And then for some reason a Karen Carpenter song played.

This and much more is in this week's edition of The Kansas City Baseball Vault heard every Thursday at 6pm on ESPN 1510 am and on demand at RoyalmanReport.com

They say "never say it can't get any worse". We've already tried to get through the tough 12 game losing streak but a good stretch of play just got everyone's hopes up. The Royals aren't very good right now, and in this episode we tried to figure out why and what can be done.

With that in mind, we talked about pitching development, the next wave coming and what kind of things might go down as the trade deadline approaches.

(Also, technology was a bit down in the dumps too during recording, as we almost lost the first half of the show. We blame Frenchy.)

The Royalman Report guys joined Jeff Logan of the KC Baseball Historical Society for another KC Baseball Vault.
This week the guys welcome Director of Player Personnel for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Tyrone Brooks. Tyrone was a part of the BP event and worked with Dayton Moore for several years in Atlanta. Tyrone gave us some insight to how the Pirates have became a winning team this year in a small market.
We were then joined by former KC/OAK A's Captain Sal Bando. Sal held nothing back when talking about Charlie Finley and Bud Selig. He also told us about his time with Milwaukee as a GM and his years as a player.
The guys then got into a heated discussion about the current Royals and what has to happen. They calmed down to have a little fun before the weekend.
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Basking in the Post-All-Star Week Glow, the Royalmen met up in a newly redesigned Fake Ned's Man Cave to talk Royals Baseball. We talked with Curtis Kitchen about the trials and tribulations of Eric Hosmer and what the Royals should do to fix him. Then, we spoke with Author Marc Normandin about his new book project "The Hall of Nearly Great" a collection of essays about "nearly great" baseball players. We spoke about his essay on Bret Saberhagen as well as what an incredible lineup of authors who contributed to the project including Jason Parks, Joe Posnanski and Bradford Doolittle. The show then turned to the RMR press tour where Michael Engle was on National Public Radio and Troy Olsen was on KCTV Channel 5. We wrapped up the show with a cameo by Chris's son Brett who talked about Fan Fest and what we liked. Join us every week here at RoyalmanReport.com for the best Royals talk through the rest of the year and beyond.