A little over a year ago, Dayton Moore claimed that the Royals’ rebuild had been “jumpstarted” when he and others in the organization made the decision to stop talking about rebuilding. It was that simple; if you don’t talk about it, it goes away. The first rule of rebuilding is you don’t talk about rebuilding. The second rule of rebuilding? You don’t talk about rebuilding.
What jumpstarted the rebuild is when we stopped talking about the rebuild. When you say ‘rebuild,’ it creates the mindset or it builds in that it’s OK to lose ballgames.