Article: Shouse hopes this is his year

KANSAS CITY - Kansas City reliever Brian Shouse made early plans for Tuesday, the Royals' first off-day of the season.

Shouse planned to watch the new movie "The Rookie," the Disney true story of Jim Morris, a 30-something dreamer who wound up living out his dream in the big leagues.

Shouse figures he can to relate to the story.

It's been more than 4,000 days since Pittsburgh drafted Shouse, a left-hander, in the 13th round of the 1990 June Free Agent Draft. Only 66 of those days have been spent in the major leagues.

He's been to spring training 13 times. Until this year he had never opened the season with a big league club.

"I feel like a rookie, an old rookie," Shouse said after the ...

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