Are you not Entertained!?!?

Alright Kansas City, it's time we all sit back, take a breath, and gain some perspective. And who better to give you that perspective than your favorite, level headed sports freak….ME!

Baseball is a game. It is entertainment. It is the original reality tv. And we all need to take a step back and examine it as such.

As I just said Baseball is a game, and the purpose of this game is to score more runs than the other team.

Period. That's it.

The way we get to that ending is just for entertainment value. And to that point I ask any Kansas City Royals, Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, or Minnesota Twins fan if they were not entertained with the series they just watched.

The Royals are currently racking up RECORD viewing statistics, two nights ago they had a 31% share of the KC t.v. audience. Heck this site alone has had our biggest viewership of any month outside of last years World Series run in October.

Baseball fans are watching. They are watching a winner. They are watching the American League Defending Champs, and current best time in the A.L.

SO why is this fan base so quick to judge and call out this team that is doing EXACTLY what we all have craved for a lifetime? WINNING!

The term "Competitive Edge" is used with a lot of the best players in the league. It is a desire, a need, a drive to beat the other team. Often times people with this edge turn the other team into enemies. They imagine a battle, and the guy on the other team is going to do whatever he can to beat you. So I must beat you first. This is why some players seem to fiery, so testy, so volatile.

This team has a lot of guys just like that. They aren't going to going to shoot the breeze with you, or be best friends during a game. And that is what makes them perform at their highest level…that edge. Yordano Ventura, Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis, Lorenzo Cain, Jarrod Dyson, Greg Holland and Danny Duffy all seem to be this kind of player. Some say it's a chip on their shoulder, others they are edgy, whatever it is, this is how they gear themselves up to play.

Others are much more relaxed, and easy going. They play best when they don't have these pressures. They don't need you to be the enemy for them to go out and dominate. They will talk to you during a game, and then send a line drive down the line. It is a different way of playing. Salvy, Eric Hosmer, Alex Gordon, Moose, Alcides Escobar, Jason Vargus, and Jeremy Guthrie all seem to be this kind of player. Don't misconstrue this as saying these guys are soft, or won't fight if the time comes. It just means they don't have to have that edge to play their game.

Fans in Kansas City and around baseball need to realize that part of what makes this team so good is they have both types of players. And these players love playing with each other. They will stand up for each other, call each other out, and ultimately win games because of it.

So whether you are a crusty old man like Nate Bukaty or Kevin Keitzman and want these guys to get off your lawn, this team may not need any advice from you. And the Firey players out there that you see saying this is fine that they do this, like my man Beep and the Taco Salazaar's are probably closer to the level headed perspectives, as hard as that is to admit. Because they see that is what got this team here.

The only thing the Royals need is to keep playing the way they are. Now is there a level of restraint they will need to play with from now on. Probably. Teams will see this and try to use it to their advantage to win games (see the conversation Eaton had with Ventura yesterday for example). We can't have them getting big suspensions and missing games. But should they stop playing the way they are. NO WAY! What other sport can't handle trash talking?

Hell I remember clearly trash talking a pitcher in high school after he hit me, and then the next time we met, took him deep twice. I turned that guy into the enemy and it worked for me. Yordano just went toe-to-toe with the best pitcher in our division, and he actually out pitched him. This is what it takes. And don't let it get swept under the rug that it was Chris Sale who apparently went into the Royals dugout/lockerroom after the fight was over looking for more, NOT Ventura or any other Royal.

So I say to you KansasCitians, and others who accidently stumbled upon this blog, "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!?!?" This is the most exciting team this town has had since a bunch of other roughing's patrolled the turf (Go ask Hal McRae and George Brett how they played the game sometime). So get out there and support this team like you all have been waiting to do for so long!

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