Those outside of the Kansas City metro have likely grown weary of hearing about how the Kansas City Royals are so much like a family. In every other instance of someone comparing a team to a family or calling the fans the best in the world, it seems like such a cliché. Not in this case.
For the better part of a decade, the Kansas City Royals franchise had been left in the dust and forgotten. The ownership of the franchise was up in the air, and the team was a shell of its former self.