The Royals Are Terrible

Sorry, funny titles, aren't always easy to come by.

So for my first post as guest-blogger, part-time blogger, whatever I am, I was going to talk about the Atlanta Braves and their continued regular season success. Then I figured, if people in Atlanta don't care, why should I? So I figured I'd talk about those sorry Kansas City Royals, since they're at least in the same state as me.

If you don't know, the Royals stopped their losing streak at just 19 games, by beating Oakland 2-1 on Saturday, and they actually managed to repeat that feat, winning on Sunday 5-4. But this post isn't really about the Royals, and their questionable strategy of bringing pitchers straight from Double AA to the majors (which they've done eight times this year). It's about their fans.

Joe Posnaski, who writes for the K.C. Star, asked a simple question in one of his columns: Do you want the losing to continue and for K.C. to own the record for the worst losing streak ever, or do you want this to end? Of course the Royals won that afternoon, so there were only 163 votes e-mailed to him before it was moot, but the totals were 137-26 in favor of continuing to lose. Does this seem wrong to anyone else? I've been an Arizona Cardinals fan for 12 seasons, so I know something about watching a lousy team, lead by bad coaching, all of which was put together by a cheap/inept front office and ownership. Even so, I've never said, "Boy I hope the Cards lose all their games this year! Then they can be the worst team ever! That'll be swell!" Ok, technically, I wouldn't use the word "swell" at all, but you get my point.

So do you think that's ok? That if your team is bad to root for them to be historically bad? To want them to join the ranks of the 2003 Detroit Tigers (43-119), 1962 Mets (40-120), and the 1899 Cleveland Spiders (20 wins, 134 losses)?