We move forward in our bracket this week with the Personalities Region, comprised of the “characters and clowns” and “#AlwaysRoyal” subgroups. Many of these guys let fans get to know them a little bit during their time with the Royals, and others’ appeal is a little more difficult to pinpoint, other than they wore the right jersey for a number of years.
In the preliminaries, Doug Bird edged out Marty Pattin for the #8 seed and Rusty Meacham beat Mike Magnante in a nearly 50-50 split for the #13 seed, while Kurt Bevacqua’s victory over Rey Palacios (#15 seed) and Jeff Conine’s margin over Brent Mayne (#16 seed) weren’t nearly as close.