You are supposed to root for your team to win the championship. I get this. For those of us blessed to root for a great team, we want to see that greatness capped off with that sweet, sweet, very pointy championship trophy. For those of us who don’t have that opportunity, well, it’s even better to root for the underdog, is it not?
The 2023 Kansas City Royals are not going to be a good team. The 2022 version was not a good team, and the gulf between what last year’s team was and what constitutes “good” is uncomfortably big, so uncomfortably big that the right move (standing pat, evaluating the young talent you’ve got, and making moves next year) seems like waiving the white flag already.