If there’s any measly upside to starting the season 22-50 and being mired in an overhaul, at least the Royals have been liberated from any lingering obligations to nostalgia.
They should still appreciate the recent past, of course. We all should.
But beyond symbolically and culturally, there is precious little of that left to grow on. And surely soon to be even less.
So, forward … such as it is.
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