For those of you who read this part as opposed to scanning the lineups and then zooming to the comments, gather round: it’s time to talk about why I became a big fan of the Kansas City Royals. That reason is Zack Greinke.
My family is from Iowa, and neither of my parents had a particular attachment to any Major League Baseball team. My grandparents had lived in a town north of Denver and east of Estes Park for years and were Colorado Rockies fans, but it didn’t really stick with me. Their games weren’t on in Cleveland, where I lived for most of my first decade.