Losing Streaks

I’m sure all of you know what I’m talking about when I say losing streaks- but how many of you have experienced the amount of losing streaks the Royals have this season for as long as the Royals make them last? (keep your hands down, Nationals fans) It’s easy to jump on the bandwagon when your team’s winning. The losing streak is the place where you discover which fans are loyal to your team and which ones aren’t. There’s a very simple way to discover which ones are and which ones aren’t:

These are the ones that aren’t:

picture: arrowheadaddict.com via google
The sad thing is, I searched for that picture on Google, and this one was one of the first to come up. Judging from the site it came from, it’s a picture from another Kansas City team… the one that has an even worse winning percentage than the Royals.

I am proud to announce that I am not wearing a paper bag over my head as I type this, but I am getting very annoyed at the Royals’ losing ways. Here’s a typical day in the Kansas City area:

1. Wake Up
2. Do your morning routine until you get to reading the newspaper
3. Read the newspaper
4. Look at the sports section, realize that the Royals lost again, say something along the lines of “oh, well, that’s life” or “oh, well, that’s just our magical imploding bullpen” and turn to the second to last page to see if anyone bowled a 300 game at the local lanes.

Yesterday, the Royals bullpen did its magic act again, imploding in the seventh and giving up seven runs over the final three innings. The Royals are getting to be so bad that they didn’t even announce it on ESPN Radio Sportscenter. We did win the day before, but the odds state that you’re going to have to win a game sometime, unless you live in Detroit and like football.

Thanks to the ten game losing streak we had before that win, we are now living in the basement, 14 games back of Detroit for the division lead. Maybe I shouldn’t have insulted Detroit in the last paragraph… … … no, I think I’ll leave it the way it is.

The last win we had before Saturday was on July 9 against the Boston Red Sox. In that time, there was an all-star game, the Yankees and Angels and probably a bunch of other teams tied together some nice winning streaks, Mark Buehrle pitched a perfect game, Jonathon Sanchez pitched a no-hitter- that’s two no-hitters between our last two wins- and that’s just in baseball. I don’t think there’s any need to go on.

Finally today’s oddness: In yesterday’s NASCAR race Juan Pablo Montoya lost the race after he got punished for speeding. Speeding! What is this world coming to? Somebody got penalized in a race for speeding. That’s unbelievable to me.