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Back to This Future
We’re supposed to be living in the future by now. To an entire generation of Americans,43 “2015” has long been shorthand for a quasi-utopic vision of better living through technology. In its depiction...
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Into Orbit
The future has a way of sneaking up on you. One minute you’re listening to “Pomp and Circumstance” while wearing a gown and tassel; the next you’re living in a closet-sized studio and eating ramen...
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Teardown Artist
I learned early in my medical career that the doctor you should worry about isn’t the one who doesn’t know anything. It’s the one who doesn’t know as much as he thinks he does. Not having the answers...
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No More Royal Pains: Kansas City Takes Full Aim at a World Series Title by...
The past 12 months have made manifest many things this Royals fan wasn’t sure he’d ever see again. I watched the Royals qualify for the postseason last year for the first time since 1985. I watched as...
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The Moore the Merrier: Dayton Lands Ben Zobrist, the Perfect Piece for the...
Royals GM Dayton Moore isn’t messing around, folks. In for a penny, in for the whole damn treasury. When I wrote up all the reasons it was a good idea for Kansas City to trade for Reds pitcher Johnny...
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A Dayton With Destiny
The only thing harder than achieving greatness is repeating it, or so goes the cliché that no one bothered to mention to the 2015 Kansas City Royals. You might remember what happened in Kansas City in...
View ArticleThe Value of the Struggle in Kansas City
The first paragraph of the first article I ever wrote for Grantland went like this: There aren’t a lot of benefits to being a Royals fan, but this is unquestionably one of them: No one will ever...
View ArticleUndoing the Underdog Narrative: The Royals Eliminate the Astros, Make More...
So this is how the 1 percent lives. I would like to tell you that during the 28-year trek through the desert that Royals fans endured from 1986 through 2013, I never dreamed I’d root for a team like...
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Hard to Kill: How the Comebacking Kansas City Royals Claimed a 2-0 Lead in...
The 2014 Royals were not simply one of the great sports stories of the year; for an entire generation of Kansas City sports fans, they were the best team any of us ever had the pleasure to root for....
View ArticleThe 15 Biggest Plays in Baseball History
The Kansas City Royals may have lost last year’s World Series, but in the most indelible moment of the series — indeed, of the season — the Royals held the fate of the championship in their hands. With...
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