The KC Royals travel to the South Side of Chicago—home to Barack Obama, Leroy Brown and the Chicago White Sox. It will be a three-day affair and the first of roughly 108,085 games between the two squads this season.
A natural rival, as these two have become over the years as much by proximity as by actual malice, needs little to juice up the series. But these two teams also are likely going nowhere this year, if early results are any indication, and angrying up the blood may require a little more push.
So let’s work up the hatred.