On June 8, 2001, the Kansas City Royals were in the midst of a lengthy playoff-less streak 16 years long. Though they would wait another 13 years for that streak to end, a young boy did not care about that as he went to Kauffman Stadium with his father. Fresh off a move from Cleveland, Ohio, the boy did not have an attachment to the Royals in any form. He had spent his formative, single-digit years watching Manny Ramirez, Jim Thome, Sandy Alomar, Omar Vizquel, and Kenny Lofton play beautiful baseball.
Baseball statistics and the arrogance of ignorance
