Almost by definition, being a sports fan means willingly giving up on logical thought, and actually, we can probably drop the first word of this sentence. Not almost by definition. In many ways, the definition of being a sports fan is the, umm, willingness to leave reality behind.
It might be the best part of sports, really.
This comes up because the Giants are in town, and the Royals’ first dozen games — that’s 7.4 percent of 162, or slightly more than the equivalent of one NFL game — have mostly created machine gun fire of hot takes around Kansas City:
The Royals are sunk, Eric Hosmer stinks, why does Dale Sveum still have a job, on and on.