The passage of time is mostly meaningless in COVID land, but at some point in the nebulous corner of the once-normal offseason I remember recording a podcast with Max and Shaun (on Royals Review Radio; subscribe wherever you get your podcasts) and having some particularly strong thoughts about Matheny. I thought he would be an awful pick for manager, namely because of a hazing incident that happened under his watch at his previous post in St. Louis.
And though I later warmed up to the selection once it became clear that Matheny was really trying to learn and improve, and when he hit all the right notes in his press conference and shortly thereafter, it is now September and my overriding thought about Matheny now is somewhere along the lines of do I even have an opinion about Matheny?