It is 2024, and I can finally write “this year” to refer to the season following the 2023 season, which essentially ended on April 21 when the Kansas City Royals lost their seventh consecutive game to fall to 4-16—tied for the worst record in MLB at the time.
You see, it may be another handful of months before the Royals play in a regular season game. But I’ve sent in a wish for the New Year, and that wish is for the Royals to avoid getting in such big of a hole so early like it seems they do every year, undergoing the inevitable losing streak and slipping into a crevasse that cannot be escaped.