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Originally Posted by Three7s
I can tell you why most fans have crazy expectations of this team. The Royals slogan for starters and the amount of air time it keeps getting. You don't make the slogan "our time" without some serious repercussions if it doesn't work out.
Personally, I don't mind .500 ball as long as we're respectable in most every area and have a few DESERVING all-stars for once.
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Eh, team/ season slogans don't mean much to me.....it's just words. Just watch and hope to be impressed with their actions on the field rather than their words off it. Words, slogans, phrases like that often times make one look like a jackass, especially when you don't back it up. However, I understand many people do buy into team slogans and such and are then let down when it doesn't come to fruition. Like you said, .500 ball with respectable stats across the board, and a few (deserved) new all stars would be acceptable for this season.....at least from my perspective. Now whether that will the vast majority of the fan base would be pleased with that I don't know. I'd gladly take it though.
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Originally Posted by Dave
20 years of futility will do that to a fan.  |
Truth! Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary slogans and ambitions without positive production backing it up.