Early Victory Could be a Sign of Things to Come for Kansas City Royals

With such a long season, does winning early actually mean anything?

For a Royals fan, it actually means a lot.

For me (a die-hard Royals fan) the season is normally over mid- to end-April. One month, if we are lucky. Despite that, Kansas City has always been a baseball town...just one with a terrible team. 

It is hard to call the Royals fans "fair weather" considering the weather has been nothing but cloudy since the 80s. There is a strange feeling to this year though. Dayton Moore started building this team. There are a lot of young players, many who come with high expectations from fans.

This year the Royals open up with three games in Detroit. The Tigers have been noted as a favorite to win the division, if not the World Series, ever since the acquisition of Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera. Detroit present a murderer's row-esque lineup against Kansas City's young pitching staff.

The Royals took the first two games of the series with the possibility to sweep tomorrow.  In the long run they are only two games out of 162, but you have to win sometime. And who is to say that the young Royals can not exercise some baseball magic and give Kansas City something to cheer for again?

With upcoming stars in Billy Butler, Alex Gordon, and Mark Teahen and veterans like Jose Guillen and Mark Grudzielanek the Royals are not looking too bad this season. 

The pitching is also coming along. Gil Meche looked decent in his Opening Day start, and Zach Grienke (barring another mental episode) may finally live up to his potential of a top pitcher in the league.

All I ask for as a Royals fan is something to cheer for. So far, so good big blue. Now let's get some 80s magic working and set the town on fire. This year you may not have the Chiefs to bail Kansas City out of the losing blues.