At least tickets on the secondary market will be dirt cheap

Hos always starts slow right?

Yes, typically.

Thought that was a big missing piece from the article. They also didn’t sign Hosmer trying to compete this year... it was a longer-term plan/outlook.

Yeah, with 2015 being a big exception if I recall correctly (we all thought he finally clicked before he went on his traditional 6 week slump).

I do hope he turns it around. The Padres fan subreddit by and large agreed with the article (arguing he will begin to decline once the Padres are competitive) and many are still mad about the signing.

Chicago and Houston always get credit for tanking before they won a title, why not KC? The 2014-2015 teams were the result of how awful they were 2005-2010.

Because the Royals tanked because ownership was cheap not because they had aspirations of winning in the future. The picks at the top of the draft were while GMDM was digging out of all of that.

Because the Royals approach wasn’t tanking.

2005-2007 were awful because of the gross, gross incompetence of the previous GM and staff.

The Royals never did the “we want to be as bad as possible to get pick leverage” thing. They didn’t ship off all tradeable assets right away (or Soria and Butler would have been moved).

I have seen the Royals get credit as inadvertent pioneers of the system. Much of Moore’s philosophy was adopted by the Cubs, they just did it out of intention, not necessity.

Case in point...4 tickets on StubHub for tonights game - Diamond Club MVP, Row A, $74.99/ticket

I paid like 200-250 a ticket last year just to be front row visitors dug out.

Jesus Christ. Junis has given up 4 solo shots through 5 innings.

Check that. 5 HR’s. FFS

Well, we didn't tank on purpose. We just were pure ineptitude two two and a half decades.

I kind of miss it. Because nobody in this town had any ****ing idea of anything about Royals. I would have to inform them of what was going on, who was coming up etc. Yeah, they knew they existed, and knew the history of the 1985 World Series but had such apathy towards those shitty 90+ loss clubs. I imagine it's like being a Sporting KC fan now. It was very niche. 90% of the metro area has no idea about any of the players, but I did.

What are the seats called behind the plate, the worst ones you can still see on TV? I want to get those someday. Wonder what those run for a day game against the White Sox in the middle of August.

So, I decide to go to the game tonight and we get shitty Jake Junis.

Figures...