With all of the commentary from a certain segment of Royals fandom after Dave Cameron did his organizatioal ranking at FanGraphs this spring, I confess to enjoying a dollop of schadenfreude at seeing the Royals implode.
I really don’t wish poorly on the Royals; I actually have genuinely positive feelings about that franchise. Living with the Royals under David Glass is a whole different sphere worse than what we have endured as Mariners fans.
But there appears to be a significant vocal segment of their fan base that hasn’t adjusted to reality. If the implosion is what it takes to get them to realize that their upside under DMGM is mediocrity, then the pain really isn’t bad.
We know. We’ve always known. It’s just, if there’s no hope for them to get better, there’s no reason to be a fan. That doesn’t justify much of the irrationality the fanbase has spewed out, but still.
I’ve tried watching other teams. Becoming a fan. It’s never felt right. I’m from KC.
It’s either, they start to do well, or I have to quit baseball.
a very recent history of success, ownership that spends money, tons of revenue and a great GM. Even during the Bavasi era, the raw material was there to succeed, and we all went crazy because of the misallocation of resources and talent that led the team to the cellar.
Now think about someone in KC, sitting in a bar, watching the team, and knowing that they’ve played zero meaningful games in his/her life. That their owner is quite content to suck up transfer payments and limit payroll. Your one hope is to grab a genius GM and build like Rays, and when you finally think you’re out from under Baird and that you HAVE that GM, he goes and and buys Kyle Farnsworth on the FA market and trades for Mike Jacobs.
To me, fans of this team are the closest US sports has to fans of non-Old Firm scottish teams. I guess in baseball there’s always hope, but it’s got to be damn hard to see after 20+ years of futility.
Since George Brett retired, they finished 2nd ONCE. And they finished 30 games back of Cleveland that year. They’ve had ONE winning season since 1994.
IQ tests can't measure grit and hustle.
SethGrandpa - June 11, 2009
Muahaha.
royalcurve - June 11, 2009
Whoever made that table probably fits into the 74-89 range.
>1%? Seriously?
Jack Moore - June 11, 2009
Geocities!
Jeff Sullivan - June 11, 2009
Is going away this September.
BrianL - June 11, 2009
Well then I'm glad I caught this now
Jeff Sullivan - June 11, 2009
And a small, nerdy part of me dies.
Matthew - June 11, 2009
The frame bar on the left...the embedded midi files.
BrianL - June 11, 2009
The yellow text on white background, the javascript cursor animations...
Good times.
Goose - June 11, 2009
Take away the cursor animations
and you just described my first website.
bluemax - June 11, 2009
Way back when I was making one of my first sites, I found and copied this java code that would make your cursor into a clock!
Fancy!
Goose - June 11, 2009
I was an Angelfire man myself.
Aaron Campeau - June 11, 2009
I used both.
I wonder how many webpages I started and left for dead a month later.
Hopefulmsfan - June 12, 2009
I've seen this exact same ad for the Mariners
With Russell Branyan in Trey Hillman’s place
gregrabble - June 11, 2009
Who else would want Bloomquist, HoRam, and Guillen
oh, wait…that used to be us.
fresnofan - June 11, 2009
With all of the commentary from a certain segment of Royals fandom after Dave Cameron did his organizatioal ranking at FanGraphs this spring, I confess to enjoying a dollop of schadenfreude at seeing the Royals implode.
I really don’t wish poorly on the Royals; I actually have genuinely positive feelings about that franchise. Living with the Royals under David Glass is a whole different sphere worse than what we have endured as Mariners fans.
But there appears to be a significant vocal segment of their fan base that hasn’t adjusted to reality. If the implosion is what it takes to get them to realize that their upside under DMGM is mediocrity, then the pain really isn’t bad.
Steve Nelson - June 11, 2009
Yeah, no...
We know. We’ve always known. It’s just, if there’s no hope for them to get better, there’s no reason to be a fan. That doesn’t justify much of the irrationality the fanbase has spewed out, but still.
I’ve tried watching other teams. Becoming a fan. It’s never felt right. I’m from KC.
It’s either, they start to do well, or I have to quit baseball.
I’m not sure you understand how much that sucks.
Bornin85 - June 12, 2009
We don't?
Because I’m pretty sure we do.
Aaron Campeau - June 12, 2009
Well since they won the World Series in 1985 they haven't been back to the playoffs.
That is much more painful that what we have been through in the past 25 years.
Sec 108 - June 12, 2009
The implication is that we can't understand hopelessness as fans.
I think it is pretty clear that we can.
Aaron Campeau - June 12, 2009
Sec's right though, we've still got
a very recent history of success, ownership that spends money, tons of revenue and a great GM. Even during the Bavasi era, the raw material was there to succeed, and we all went crazy because of the misallocation of resources and talent that led the team to the cellar.
Now think about someone in KC, sitting in a bar, watching the team, and knowing that they’ve played zero meaningful games in his/her life. That their owner is quite content to suck up transfer payments and limit payroll. Your one hope is to grab a genius GM and build like Rays, and when you finally think you’re out from under Baird and that you HAVE that GM, he goes and and buys Kyle Farnsworth on the FA market and trades for Mike Jacobs.
To me, fans of this team are the closest US sports has to fans of non-Old Firm scottish teams. I guess in baseball there’s always hope, but it’s got to be damn hard to see after 20+ years of futility.
Since George Brett retired, they finished 2nd ONCE. And they finished 30 games back of Cleveland that year. They’ve had ONE winning season since 1994.
marc w - June 12, 2009
Yeah remember we won the'86 series
Poochie - June 12, 2009
Seeing Seaguls by the Seashore.........
Is the latest blog entry by the great Joe Posnanski(dot com). A better litany of Royals’ foibles you will never find. Classic.
mscogle - June 11, 2009
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