Royalty

A young man sits on I-70 over looking the sports complex.  A crack of the bat, and a hushed crowd.  The man stood up, waiting, as the crowd sound would let him know what happened next.  A tremendous roar came over the stadium and you knew that the Royals had just won the 1985 world series.

Royalty.  That's what we were.  We were the champions of the world and no one could take that from us.  We thought that we were going to be triumphant year after year after year.  But that would be the last time we tasted victory so sweet.

We all sat by and we watched the Royals fail year after year.  One continous cycle of "next year we will be better" that turned to (false) hope, and then back again to "next year"

Who can blame fans who stopped paying attention?  Who can blame the young fans who never started, and instead adopted our hated rival to the east or some other big market team as their own?  After all why support a team that doesn't seem to want to support itself?

That's when, in 2006, the Glass family decided they needed a change.  They sought out a young up and coming baseball executive who had worked his way from scout to assistant GM of the Atlanta Braves.  That's when the Glass family decided to hire Dayton Moore.  Who would have thought that the man who was sitting on I-70 in 1985 would be at the helm of the greatest turn around seen in modern sports?

Now, headed back to the world series, Dayton Moore will have a much better seat than he did for the last one.