My wife was kind enough to allow me to guest blog about the Kansas City Royals.
The Royals are a baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri, which I find disingenuous. No one thinks of them as a Missouri team, they already have the Cardinals. So, that's somewhat lame. This happens to Kansas not infrequently. The Chiefs are also based in Kansas City, Missouri. This really kind of sucks for Kansas. My entire family is from Kansas, so I really should know more about the Royals than that Zack Greinke was wasted there for several years (the Royals have sucked for some time, thought they apparently might actually be good this year). The only other thing that comes to mind when I think of the Royals is this:
Admit it, that's all you can think of, too. The Pine Tar Game is the only thing most people think about when they think about George Brett (even though he is in the Hall of Fame).
That's all I really have to say about the Royals. So now it's time to talk about THE KANSAS JAYHAWKS, THE BEST BASKETBALL TEAM EVER TO EXIST, EVER!!
As I said, my entire family is from Kansas. Both of my parents grew up in Kansas and attended KU. They have framed newspapers from 1988 up in their house to this day. If you don't know what happened in 1988, this happened:
That's all to say that I come by my love of KU Basketball honestly.
Now, KU plays Kentucky tonight for the national championship. By the time this is posted, the game will probably be over and I'll either be catatonic with joy or grief. When Kansas won in 2008 I jumped up and down, by myself, in the dark, while trying to figure out how to celebrate, given that my oldest daughter was asleep 10 feet away.
God, I love KU basketball.
ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK KU!!!!!!
And that's your 2012 Kansas City Royals!!
**Blogger's note -- Or not. That's your 2012 Kansas Jayhawks! Let's just be honest about what this really is, sweetie.
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If the Jayhawks had won, I would have won my bracket for the first time in, like, 25 years. They didn't and so I lost again. I now hate KU. Sorry.
A cult. I married into a cult.
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