It wouldn’t be opening day eve if it didn’t bring out the curmudgeon in Royals manager Ned Yost, who loves the pomp and ceremony ahead for the fans but wants to get distractions out of the way and get into the rhythm of the season and figured on Wednesday there were just “too many people around.”
Meaning the few dozen media members he was teasing about that ahead of the scheduled 2019 season opener against the Chicago White Sox on Thursday at 3:15 at Kauffman Stadium.
After all, this time of anticipation and romanticizing the game is routine enough now for Yost, who has been in Major League Baseball almost continually since making his debut with the Brewers in 1980 and is entering his 10th season of managing the Royals.