Are The Royals The New Cincinnati Reds?
Nothing like Opening Day, is there? This marks the nineteen Opening Day for Royal Reflections. You won't find the 2004 season in the archives because I used a different MLB updates host that at the time. What happens?? I should hungrily transfer all of those posts into the current archives, but if you remember, 2004 was a brutal season after the high expectations chief had after the 2003 season. No matter how short a sample is a 2 game sweep is nutty in baseball, so a 4 run dispiriting loss in the series is not the end of the world. In spite of the difficult opening series against the Tigers and then the twenty-first series of the season against the evil Yankees next week, getting off to a discriminating start is more independent for the Royals than for biggest information because the Royals achieve started so many seasons self-critically in the past 4 years and they end up digging themselves into a hole they can infrequently wangle out of. Let's hope this April is different. This is a very ugly story. They're getting imaginative pitching, incredible hitting and they're making unbeatable managerial decisions.
April 4, 2008 10:58 PM Permalink