With his team hurtling toward one of the worst seasons in major-league history during a 5-21 June, Royals general manager Dayton Moore made an appearance at the Jewish Community Center and, yikes, told a few of us that he had thought next year would be the one when the team would really struggle.
Looking back, it came off a little like the scene in “Caddyshack” when Bill Murray/Carl Spackler stands in a deluge and tells Bishop Pickering, “I don’t think the heavy stuff is going to come down for quite a while.”
Only there was nothing funny about this precipitous plunge for a franchise that went to back-to-back World Series in 2014 and 2015, which was nowhere near as long ago as it suddenly seemed.