The Kansas City Royals - Poem
My favorite baseball team and sports team all around is the Kansas City Royals. They have been through many tough years of late, with only one winning season since 1994. I was too young when the Royals won the World Series in 1985, so most of my memories are full of losing. But, I still love them.
Here is a short poem in honor of my favorite sports team:
The Kansas City Royals
Before the bats of ash
Before the years of pine
The Royals won it before my time
Many years painful tears
Many years dreadful fears
The Royals won it before my time
Playoffs played without eyes
Playoffs played nowhere mine
The Royals won it before my time
Years without post-seasons
Years without real reasons
The Kansas City Royals are mine
So what is your favorite sports team / sports memory?
summerbreeze
July 17, 2008 @ 1:36 am
gee thanks for making me feel like a granny. I just turned 28 not that I remember the royals winning the world series in 85 but I was alive and kicking. In 1985 I remember listening to my grandfather’s radio, he loved the Phillies (hometown pride I suppose) and I remember this one game where Tug McGraw was pitching. It is strange the things you remember. To answer your question I like baseball Altoona Curve (AAA team for the Pirates) but I love the Flyers.
Gary R. Hess
July 17, 2008 @ 11:33 am
@summerbreeze Well, you shouldn’t feel too old. I was at least alive during the world series; I was just way too young to remember it (I would have been about 1 1/2 years old).
My earliest memory of the Royals is watching a replay of “The Pine Tar Incident” in around ‘88 or ‘89. I can’t even remember why it was being shown, probably during that years World Series. I just remember my dad talking about George Brett and how the call was ridiculous in the first place.
Hawksdomain
July 18, 2008 @ 11:10 am
Now I get to feel like a granny, and I’m only 35!
Growing up in KC, I can tell you that the Pine Tar Incident was quite the thing to hear. It was a weekend and my dad was out cutting the grass. It was so hot outside, I was just lying on my bed and Dad had the radio on in the kitchen to the ballgame. I was almost asleep and then the radio started going crazy, all this yelling and excitement.
Looking back, I think it is hysterical. It was stupid. The entire ordeal, that is.
What is funny is now I see commercials now and then advertising pinetar.com but they are selling siding or something stupid. It just makes me sad to think that people will do anything these days to make a buck.
I have never been a fan of baseball, but I did watch all of the World Series that year with my Dad. I know some Royals fans, then there is my husband who laughs at them. Aren’t they doing better than normal this year? Seems like we hear about them winning more often on the news!
Gary R. Hess
July 18, 2008 @ 2:11 pm
This year the Royals are only a few games above where they were last season. The difference though is that this year they have been really, really streaky. They have quite a few young guys on the team so streakiness is to be expected.
It doesn’t matter though, I still love them… they could lose 120 games and I would still follow them and at least look at the stats after every game.
Justin
July 19, 2008 @ 11:20 am
Nice punch line. I wish your Royals luck.
J
Webloglearner
July 19, 2008 @ 7:32 pm
wow! how fanatic and loyal. good luck and more power and success to your fave team. great poem.
webbiestuffs
July 19, 2008 @ 7:33 pm
keep up the great poetry going. Thanks for being a constant advertiser in my blog. So long for your favorite team and may they have a lot of successes and glory.
BlueWorkhorse
July 20, 2008 @ 4:57 am
My favorite sports memory is being on the mound when we won our conference championship my senior year of college. Of course, we had many trials and tribulations our freshman through junior years before we got a new coach. Here’s a poem I wrote my junior year that we believe helped contribute to the firing of our head coach:
The Graveyard
A concrete infield
A crabgrass outfield
The field scores more than the home team
Each bound of the ball is an adventure.
A ‘true hop’ found alongside dragons and unicorns -
Only in Dreams.
Every bounce fights for its existence
A newly caged animal in dire need of escape
Scotland Yard
Home of the Fighting Scots
Expectations never reached
Talent rarely fulfilled
Players get older
But never really improve
Careers begin to end
At the gateway to ‘real life’
Hopes and aspirations
Become replaced by reality
At Scotland Yard
Home of the Fighting Scots
Batters take backward K’s
Throwers rack up walks
Wishes for a new coach
The rage of the team’s talks
Errors are commonplace
The losses have become that way too
Good exhibitions are rare
Of wins there are but a few
Because this is Scotland Yard
Home of the Fighting Scots
Shotgun Spratling
Angela
July 20, 2008 @ 6:32 am
I saw the Royals win the series in 1985. I feel really old after reading your poem, but as a Kansas City girl, I’m glad that there are young Royals fans out there!
Ethan Nobles
July 20, 2008 @ 10:11 pm
I feel your pain — I’ve been a Pittsburgh Pirates fan since about 1977. They haven’t had a winning season since 1992. That’s a long time to go and never reach .500.
The Royals have the same problems my beloved Pirates do — cheap ownership. David Glass (former Wal-Mart CEO) comes from a “let’s cut costs!” background, so I can kind of understand not spending money on his team.
The Pirates, however, have no excuse.
Gary R. Hess
July 20, 2008 @ 10:54 pm
@Ethan Nobles I completely disagree. Glass is not cheap. The Royals have had horrible management until about a year ago when Dayton Moore took over. The moment he came in he created more scouting departments in the US and Latin America. He then created another minor league affiliate and more management positions. He then hired one of the most sought after managers (Trey Hillman) and signed both Meche and Guillen (who I would have never dreamed Baird would have signed).
Although Dayton Moore has a long way to go before being put in the same sentence as Billy Beane, he has made his share of good trades thus far and has improved the Royals much more so than the record shows.
The minor league system is about 1000 times deeper than before he came and at least one part of the system is looking healthy (pitching).
There are other teams out there who have had great success being a ’small market’ team (As, Twins, Indians, Marlins and now Rays). There is absolutely no reason why teams like the Royals and Pirates can’t compete at or around the same budget.
When a new GM takes over it takes a long time for it to show nationally, and I think it will within the next 2-3 years.
Ethan Nobles
July 21, 2008 @ 12:56 am
Gary, I stand corrected. The last report I read on the Royals concerned gate receipts, payrolls and that type of thing. Didn’t look pretty, so I just made the assumption that Glass was up to his old bargain basement ways. We know the risk associated with assumption, yeah?
Meanwhile, this nifty poem inspired a rant about my beloved Pirates right here.