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Originally Posted by thurman merman
"Perennial media darlings"? What? When has the media ever made much of the Royals, other than a few guys this year?
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To be fair, we have been the trendy dark horse pick the last couple years. We haven't been seriously picked to do huge things, but everyone always lists a "team to watch out for", and it always seemed to be the Royals, and a couple writers who wanted to seem hip or thinking out of the box would pick the Royals to win the Central or a Wild Card every year.
This year though it really could happen so the floodgates are really opening, they still aren't favored by the media, but I'm seeing at least 1/3 and maybe almost 1/2 of writers penciling them in for at least a wild card. So, we are being paid attention to, especially with our strong 2nd half last year and with Ace Ventura.