2011 Royalsfest

[rwilcox12]

As someone who has 'graphed both in Wilmington, I prefer Moustakas. His autograph, for one, looks nicer. He became harder to get, in my opinion, as well as the year progressed.

 

[KDOG4187]

I don't really understand why staff wouldn't want to tell people. If you are just going for two or three guys how are you supposed to know what time to show up?

I have been to a few different fan fests set up both ways, the Marlins for example don't tell you who is in which line until the signing starts, the Rays on the other hand give out the schedule when you first get there. I believe what the teams are trying to avoid is people lining up at the autograph line hours and hours early for a particular player and clogging up the area. The teams that keep it unknown feel like it gives everyone a fair shake. Personally I agree with you, if someone wants too wait 4 hours early to get George Brett then so be it, but since when do teams care what is best for the fans???

 

[optimisticgrapher]

I will be attending both days and would like to meet up with other graphers from this board.

 

[mulliganman]

I spoke with someone with the Royals today who said there will be a press release about what times players/former players will be there and it will then be put online. That would be really nice if they would do that.

 

[JSG1984]

New additions were made to the list of attendees. I tried to bold the ones I think are new:

Willie Aikens*
Buddy Baumann
George Brett#
Billy Butler
Melky Cabrera
Lorenzo Cain
Kyle Davies
Bob Davis
Steve Foster*
Jeff Francoeur
Chris Getz
John Gibbons*
Joel Goldberg
Alex Gordon
Shane Halter
Luke Hochevar
Eric Hosmer
Kila Ka'aihue
John Lamb
Ryan Lefebvre
Dennis Leonard
Mike Macfarlane
Mitch Maier
Lucas May
John Mayberry
Denny Matthews
Bob McClure*
Brian McRae
Jeff Montgomery
Dayton Moore
Mike Moustakas
Marty Pattin^
Bill Pecota^
Greg Pryor*
Jamie Quirk
Derrick Robinson
Eddie Rodriguez*
Kevin Seitzer
Doug Sisson*
Joakim Soria
Paul Splittorff*
Mike Sweeney#
Steve Stewart
Jerry Terrell#
John Wathan
Willie Wilson
Frank White#
Ned Yost

 

[JSG1984]

Now that they've added Melky, I'm really looking forward to attending this.

 

[JSG1984]

Jason Kendall was removed.

 

[Royals_Chiefs]

I am taking items for consignment in the 50/50 thread.

 

[mulliganman]

I"m not sure if it's a mistake or not, but Hosmer, Moustakas, and Brett are no longer showing under the players and staff scheduled to appear. There are others from the "updated" list in this thread which have also disappeared.

Nevermind. It appears they may have been messing with the website because now I see the whole list.

 

[KDOG4187]

I"m not sure if it's a mistake or not, but Hosmer, Moustakas, and Brett are no longer showing under the players and staff scheduled to appear. There are others from the "updated" list in this thread which have also disappeared.

Nevermind. It appears they may have been messing with the website because now I see the whole list.

Yeah I almost had a stroke when I saw it last night but it was obviously a website error... They also added Jeff Francis so that is nice.