Kansas City Royals Stay Losing & Baseball Becomes Irrelevant

This week the home team can do us all a small favor by avoiding yet another sweep. 

Meanwhile . . . 

The real estate swindle perpetrated on Kansas City taxpayers is far more compelling than anything on the field from the home team in about 5 years . . . And this conclusion takes us to a money line about the demise of the American pastime . . .

"Baseball had a great run, a nice century. Times change, tastes veer, attention spans shrink. Cultural gems become cultural relics. It’s no one’s fault; we move on to new things."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . . First tonight's unhappy returns . . .

Royals let the Fish get away in 6-1 loss

Poor defense and a disastrous fifth inning were the main culprits in the Royals' 6-1 loss to the Marlins on Tuesday night. It's Kansas City's 43rd loss and only June 6th. It was a pitcher's duel for the first four innings of Tuesday night's contest as both Jesus Luzardo and Zack Greinke were on their game.

And then . . . A  think piece that's ironically too boring to read all the way through, very much like watching a baseball game . . .

How Baseball Saved Itself

Inside the desperate effort to rescue America's pastime from irrelevance Where in the name of human rain delays is Juan Soto? The stud outfielder is late. Everyone keeps checking their phones-the antsy Major League Baseball officials, the San Diego Padres PR guy, the handful of reporters, and the assorted hangers-on you encounter around baseball clubhouses.

You decide . . .