Jeff Passan

And I think what is going to be a common theme when I come on this show every week is talking about how bad the American League is.

And that's it.

Listen, you have down years in divisions, and that's fine.

But it is so wide open that what I think it does is it allows Royals fans to

to take solace in what otherwise would feel like just a never-ending...

And yet your particular brand of mediocrity might be enough.

And that's what we're looking at here.

Like the White Sox are ahead of the Royals right now in the standings.

And it's like the freaking White Sox?

Really?

Yeah.

Well, in the American League Central, anything is possible.

And so I'm not saying if the Royals lose 10 games in a row again,

I'm going to sit here and do a happy dance about it or tell them that they should feel good about it.

But what I've come to understand is

there's almost no disqualifying event or series in this division.

You just can recover from almost anything because you know all the other teams are going to probably go through some sort of similar slump themselves.

So I think it's going to make for a really interesting rest of the season knowing that as long as you don't fall deep into like,

the doldrums for an extended period of time, you're probably going to be all right.

There will be no 98-win team in this division.