I always find it's enlightening, entertaining and often quite humorous, to take a stroll through the InterWebs once in awhile and hear about teams and players you may not frequently see or read about in your own home market. As much as I purport to know just enough about a lot of sports stuff to spew unsubtantiated opinion around, one can never truly know a team, player or organization better than the die-hards who follow them day in and day out. This is perhaps most evidence in the case of baseball -- which stretches out over a 162-game campaign. This is all a long-winded way of saying we got a huge kick out of a recent post and quote via esteemed Kansas City Royals blog Royals Review. It's easy as a fan to find a single player to whom much of your frustration and venom is directed. Sometimes the burying of the player is warranted, sometimes it's not. Regardless, we could totally empathize with the casual suggestion made by this Royals loyalist in the fan posts section of Royals R...
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