At Kauffman Stadium Friday night, you had different kinds of fans.
There were the ones who could step up and be the play-by-play announcer with few missteps. They know the game. Love the game. Can rattle off statistics.
Yet last year created a whole new brand of fan. The ones who may not know the game, but they’ve gotten to know the players and their stories. Fans who just a year ago likely weren’t sure there was a difference between a slide or a slider, but could rattle off the correct spelling of Moustakas, as in Mike.