From 1995 through 2012, I remember only one Kansas City Royals game that had a playoff atmosphere. It was 2005, a year the Royals lost a franchise-worst 106 games. They had three managers – Tony Pena, Bob Schaefer and Buddy Bell – and were outscored by 234 runs. That team started the season 3-3, yet […]
If you’ve followed the Royals long enough, an eight-game streak is nothing Read More »
You’re going to read dozens of columns and blogs about Alex Gordon’s home run in Game 1 of the 2015 World Series. Others will write about his ridiculous diving-into-the-stands catch against the Chicago White Sox the same season. Some might even mention the overlooked bomb he hit against the Minnesota Twins in 2014 as the
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June 26, 2014. That day is one of a handful that stand out when I think about the Kansas City Royals of Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas, Lorenzo Cain and Alcides Escobar. Two days earlier, I watched from the press box as the Royals struggled, as everybody does, against Clayton Kershaw. I was there to interview
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Several hours after the Royals flailed their way to a fourth straight loss and 34 innings without scoring a run Sunday, I grabbed my iPhone, tapped on the YouTube app and typed in “2015 World Series Game 1.” I spent 30 minutes scrolling through various points of that game, from Alcides Escobar’s inside-the-park home run
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Baseball is a team sport. Blaming one player typically is short-sighted. In 2016, there’s been plenty of blame to go around for the Kansas City Royals. The offense is among the worst in baseball. The starting rotation has been mediocre to awful much of the season. The Royals just have not been good enough in
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As a boy growing up in rural Missouri, I spent hundreds of hours hitting rocks from our driveway into an open field across the highway. I must have delivered the game-winning hit thousands of times in Game 7 of the World Series, usually a long home run to right field at Kauffman Stadium. I thought
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Hell hath no fury like a sports fan scorned, particularly if that fan has been kicked in the groin, crane kicked in the nose and falcon-punched in the stomach repeatedly for 25 years. The vitriol came out in force late Sunday night when news broke that the Kansas City Royals traded Jesus Christ (Wil Myers)
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Fire Ned Yost and Dayton Moore. I was going to write that Sunday after the Royals lost their third straight game to the mighty Minnesota Twins, wasting a golden opportunity to inch closer to .500 and pull within a couple of games of first place in the A.L. Central. But I’m holding off on that
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Five weeks into the conference season Texas and Kansas are clearly the best teams in the Big 12. As for spots Nos. 3-10? Flip a coin with two games separating eight teams. The Week Five Big 12 rankings are brought to you by “Naked Gun.” Credit to my boy Scott Rochat for pitching those flicks in
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