Once a year, I like to riff on various topics. Call it my “get off my lawn column”. With July moving into August, there’s a certain desperation in the air. Summer is in the fourth quarter now and if your baseball team is out of it, it’s a downer. In the Royals case, I’ve taken to calling this, “another one of those summers”.
The Royals have had a lot of these summers. Over the past 30 seasons, Kansas City has had seven winning summers. Seven. This is General Manager Dayton Moore’s 16th season on the job. During that time, the Royals have had three winning seasons, one at .