Royals close to avoiding another 100-loss season

Kansas City Star: Royals close to avoiding another 100-loss season

Well, that was pretty miserable, huh? Here it is, September, stretch run of the baseball season, and the Royals lose one to last-place Texas.

Need a hump-day pick-me-up?

Try this one: the Royals, barring a collapse the likes of which baseball has never seen, will avoid what would have been a fourth consecutive 100-loss season. All they need is one win in their final 24 games. ...

I hoped at the season's beginning that they would lose less than 90 games. They will finish the paper projects at 73-89 if they continue their course. Their record is better than nine other major league teams. If they were in the N.L. Central Division, they would be 8.5 games out of first! (Which says very little about the Royals and a whole lot about the N.L. Central.)

Guess I should go take in a game this season. Haven't gotten around to that yet.

Comments

[Andy]

Lay off the NL Central. Sure, there are only two teams over .500 (the Cubs, and the Brewers, who are just a repackaged AL team and don't really count in my book). But where else could a 61-78 team like my own Pittsburgh Pirates still be in the race (mathematically speaking)?

After 15 straight years watching your team languish in the basement of the worst division in the NL, you take your consolations where you can. And hey, we're still only 10 1/2 games out of first...

[Michael W. Kruse]

LOL. Well you noticed I was trying to move the Royals into your Division. :)