The McGovern Manifesto: Fountains, BBQ and Baseball

[royals19]

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Baseball has always been the heart of Kansas City... well actually BBQ... but that's another topic for another day. Baseball has been embedded into the hearts of those who watched Satchel Paige pitch for the Kansas City Monarchs and in the hearts of those that watched younger versions of Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford play for the Kansas City Blues... Heck even the nickname of Kansas City (KC) is attributed to hall of famer Casey Stengel who is from the area...

Now legends are a dime a dozen... there's hundreds of them. However, factoring pnly modern day teams, only 27 of those teams have won the world series. Some once, some multiple times. Teams aren't judged by the players they develop... no,no,no... They're judged by wins and losses. And Kansas City's professional baseball team has not seen a winning season for a decade. They haven't seen a playoff appearance nor a world series since 1985... That's 27 years...

Now the Royals have had their legends... George Brett, Bo Jackson, Frank White, Dan Quisenberry, Lou Pinella, John Mayberry... With all of that talent, you'd think that the Royals would have won more than one World Series. But here's the thing, none of these guys all played on the same team at the same time! Their legends were far and few in between!

Now in the present, you look at the Royals current roster with guys like Luke Hoch... err... Billy Butler, Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas, Salvy Perez, Alex Gordon and you can't believe all the potential your seeing. Never before in Royals history, have the Royals had so many players with star potential on their roster.

After an exciting 2011 and a bust in 2012, here we are in 2013. The roster this year is "loaded" compared to previous seasons. For the first time in my lifetime, everyone is all in... Mr. Glass is taking a hit in the pocket books (or so he says) to field a winning team and Dayton Moore and Ned Yost are hounding to get the season under way so that they can begin their hopeful accession to the pinnacle of the baseball world.

[CameRoN0407]

Saw this pop up on tapatalk and was like !!!


Yessssssss!

[royals19]

Kansas City Royals Baseballhas always been something people have looed forward to despite the fact that the teams the organization has fielded are not exactly... talented, if you will.

The Royals had some excellent ball clubs in the 1980s. They had legends like George Brett, Bo Jackson and Frank White and it appeared that they wouldn't be letting up soon. Despite the fact that they weren't in the playoffs again, they were still very much contenders.

However in 1994, they reached their pinnacle and were on pace to win their division again but unfortunately that was the season of the great strike and there was no playoffs... After that, the team fell apart, and has never been a serious major league threat since...

But in order to figure out where it all went wrong, we have to go back in time and examine what really foundered the collapse behind the scenes... And it can be correctly attributed to 3 events...

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John Scheurholz's leaves for Atlanta after 22 years.

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Bo Jackson gets hurt...

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Ewing Kauffman dies and Mr. Glass takes over from the trust.

Schuerholz was responsible for constructing the team first as scouting director and secondly as General Manager and when he left, the talent KC brought in was declining severely...

Had Bo Jackson never gotten hurt, he could've been perhaps one of the greatest players ever to play the game of baseball. I'm talking like legit 60-60 guy with gold glove defense. The loss of Bo Jackson severely hampered the Royals and haunted them with thoughts of what could've been. With no real superstar to take over after George Brett retired, the Royals were out of luck.

When Mr. Glass took over, he gutted all the big contracts and tried to apply the methods he learned at Wal-Mart to baseball... needless to say, it failed miserably and now the Royals have been hampered by payroll and "peculiar" management decisions ever since the Glass family took over.

Now in order to bring back a winning franchise to KC, we need to reverse those 3 events and get a little help along the way. We can rehire John Scheurholz, Bubba Starling can become the next Bo Jackson.... but where, oh where... are we going to find another owner to replace Mr. Glass and right the ship?

[royals19]

After Mr. Kauffman got out of the Navy, he pursued a career as a pharmacist for a short while before he began making plans to pioneer his own pharmaceutical company. Now despite the fact that Mr. Kauffman was a pharmacist and making decent money, he had no where near the appropriate funds to begin his new business so he turned to an old wartime friend:

George McGovern

After McGovern got out of the navy, he pioneered a massive 5 and dime empire based in his native Georgia that was rapidly expanding into places like Arkansas. So Kauffman gives a younger McGovern a business proposition: Help me build my pharmaceutical empire and I will reward you greatly when the time comes. Now McGovern, being the financial whiz and businessman he is, gladly agreed to help his friend so long as he got 20% of the profits.

So the two engaged in the profitable business but McGovern couldn't help but notice that a "profiteering hoodlum" ,as McGovern called him, named Sam Walton was eating at the heels of his of his 5 and dime empire. McGovern ignored it hoping that his reward would be coming soon and he could promptly destroy this budding business.

Again, time came and went and again there was no reward in sight. By now, McGovern had lost 7 stores and was worried that that the crafty Sam Walton was going to destroy him. McGovern asked time and time again where his reward was with Mr. Kauffman playing it down by saying "just wait".

In 1993, McGovern could wait no longer, the Empire that Walton had built, now under the control of a Mr. Glass, was ruining his empire and he was going to have to sell it soon. But in late July, Ewing Kauffman rewarded his friend George McGovern with the ultimate prize: The Kansas City Royals.

On August 1st, Kauffman passed away and McGovern took over as head of the trust which was in charge of the Royals...

But before one game was even played under the McGovern Administration, McGovern was backstabbed by the trust who ousted him and took a large portion of his money while he was at it. McGovern was replaced by none other than David Glass who would go on to purchase the Royals for 96 Million dollars in the year 2000.

In the meantime, McGovern was forced to sell all but his original store just to keep his head afloat.

Now in 2013, McGovern's bank account balance was 337 million dollars after he made a couple good investments and with profits still trickling in from this 5 and dime store...

[joshrmlb]

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[Bluejaysfan65]

Quote: Originally Posted by joshrmlb

This is going to be awesome! Following.

Once again, couldn't agree more...

[ML]

Yessss so happy you picked the Royals!

Love everything about them from George Brett (although a "Yankee killer") to Billy Butler! Butlers one of my favorite players to date, great hitter and a doubles machine dude can really rake.

Interested to see which way you take this team, a lot of good players need just a few more additions to get over the top IMO

[lilbiggio]

That was a pretty boss backstory right there... I actually was tempted to check wikipedia to see when real meets fiction because so much of it sounds like it happened. I rarely get motivated to do that off of backstories since most of them are pretty obvious so good job on that front.