Blair Kerkhoff

Who should be held accountable for it?

Who's going to get fired for it?

I was hoping it was fun to have a couple years' respite from those types of conversations, but here we are back having those conversations, and that's what makes the mood so dark around Royals baseball right now.

Well, you're right.

The record tells you you're right about that.

Now, everybody in the AL, the three other teams in the AL Central got their 12 or 13 games against the White Sox and didn't have as good a record as the Royals did, you know, against that particular Chicago team.

So, yeah, that's... And, you know, rubbing salt into the wound a little bit, look at where the White Sox are now in just two years after a historically bad...

So, yeah, yes, the fact that the Royals, you know, basically were a 500 team without playing the White Sox and took advantage of that.

I remember Bobby Witt just owned the White Sox that year, had that great series right after the All-Star break and just was just raked against the White Sox up in Chicago.

But, yeah.

All the games count.

They all count.

So I don't think it was unfair for the Royals to just take their 86 wins that season.

I think they were a year ahead, maybe a little year ahead of schedule, no matter who they had beaten that year, and plotted a course with that in mind.

Now, it wasn't a 12-1 record last year against the White Sox.

I remember Chicago won a few more games, and this year,

Royals are underwater against the White Sox, as they are against a lot of teams.

But, yeah, that does hurt a little bit to see what the White Sox are doing and what they've done against Kansas City this year.

There haven't been many historically, obviously, but Mazeroski wasn't.

That was a tie game.