Kansas City is meant to be a baseball town. Go Royals
Barb ShellyKansas City seems to be putting on a first-rate celebration of baseball in the buildup to Tuesday’s All-Star Game. It is great to see the town alive and have baseball legends and legends-in-making strolling the streets.
I’m sure I’m not the only one experiencing 1985 nostalgia. That year, we didn’t have to have Major League Baseball choose us as its All-Star city. The Royals made it happen by winning the American League pennant and then the World Series.
Kansas City is meant to be a baseball town. It has the Negro Leagues Museum. George Brett, one of the heroes of ‘85, is still perhaps the most recognizable and popular Kansas Citian. And yet — you know where this is going — except for a couple of years with Bo Jackson playing in the outfield, our Major League Baseball team hasn’t given the town much to get excited about since 1985.
That’s a really long time. I will always be a bit sad that my son, now 20, spent his entire childhood without experiencing what a winning season is like for his hometown team.
Still, hope springs eternal. Despite a terrible weekend in Detroit, the Royals seem to have a nucleus of talent that, with good management and some luck, could produce a winning season, maybe even the possiblity of a playoff series.
Let us hope. Kansas City shouldn’t have to wait decades for Mayor League Baseball to grace us again with an All-Star game to be a baseball town.
Rachel Elaine Hines
10 months, 2 weeks agoNo mention of the T-Bones? Much more affordable and family-friendly than the boys in blue. Go, Royals, indeed … and take the Chiefs with you! Both teams are an embarrassment.
Jon Whitten
10 months, 2 weeks agoGood luck with that. The fact is that both the Royals and Chiefs have absentee owners. That means when Glass and Boy Hunt are at cocktail parties, nobody asks them about the teams and the performances….nobody cares in their world.
I hope somehow, soon, somebody that “IS” Kansas City buys the Royals and puts some heart and “skin” into owning the team.
As far as the Chiefs? Maybe they will end up in L.A.- good riddance.