I’m a Royals fan. My favorite baseball team lost 100 games for the first time in franchise history when I was 10 years old. It went on to lose at least 100 games in three of the next four years.
In that fourth 100-loss season in a five-year stretch, manager Buddy Bell said a quote that will stick with me the rest of my life.
“I never say it can’t get worse.”
That quote was symbolic of that era of Royals baseball. Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, it did. And it stayed that way for close to a decade.