Have a seat in the wayback machine to mid-September 2014, ancient history now for the Royals, before the euphoria of October redefined the franchise and purged a generation of frustration.
The idea of seven Royals being chosen to the 2015 All-Star Game would have been preposterous.
Not to mention the notion of the American League team being managed by Ned Yost, the object of the ire of many Royals fans.
This was an organization, after all, that had lost 2,532 games from 1986 to 2013, when it was mired in the longest playoff drought among the four most-established U.