KC Royals Fans Nominated for SI Sportsman & Women of the Year 2014

[Deeper_Background]

2014 Sportsman nominee: Kansas City Royals fans (other 3 choices so far are Coach Pops/The Showman, Michael Sam & Meb Keflezighi) ​The world had changed while the Royals were off the grid -- starting with the fact that there wasn’t really a grid in 1985 -- but their fans continued turning up in the intervening decades, as if nothing had happened. And that was the problem: Nothing had happened. Royals fans came anyway -- never fewer than 1.2 million in a season, usually many more -- in an act of faith or madness or (that phrase again) simple devotion to duty. That’s why those fans are my Sportsmen and Women of the Year. They maintained this bedside vigil, day after day for decades, in the fading hope that the patient would stir.
http://www.si.com/sportsman/2014/10/20/steve-rushin-sportsman-kansas-city-royals

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

I vote Popovich. He won't win because he won't sell magazines.

If you want to give it to the Royals, great. Best story in baseball this season. The fans? Why? Seems like a cop out.

 

[poindexter]

Jeez, Michael Sam?

 

[poindexter]

Why don't they just do a regional Sportsman of the Year, similar to how they've bastardized the covers?

That way everybody in the country can have a proverbial trophy.

 

[LongTimeListener]

These always get packaged as "nomination," but they're really just personal thought exercises about someone or some team that was cool.

If someone gets written about as part of this, it's a guarantee that he/she is NOT getting the award.

As for the actual honor, the NFL could use some nut-licking from its business partner.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

Here's a bold move: Ray Rice

I know this is a positive award, but think of the impact the Rice case has had on the sports world and how things have been changed as a result.

I know it will never happen, but it would be more interesting than "Royals fans... YAY!"

 

[Vombatus]

I vote for the exmediahack family.

 

[Deeper_Background]

Why don't they just do a regional Sportsman of the Year, similar to how they've bastardized the covers?

That way everybody in the country can have a proverbial trophy.

this could be it. KC Royals=Midwest Meb=East Coast Pops=West Coast, Southwest Sam=Everyone else

 

[LongTimeListener]

Sportsman and Sportswoman of the year:

 

[Deeper_Background]

Sportsman and Sportswoman of the year:

I hereby nominate Marlins Man for his lifetime achievements at major sporting events.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

Sportsman and Sportswoman of the year:

I hereby nominate Marlins Man for his lifetime achievements at major sporting events.

Sherman would be a better choice than Royals fans.

 

[Starman]

Supporting a **** franchise is not a good thing if the owners have been salary-cap freeloaders and salary-dumpers for decades on end, like the Royals have.

 

[nmmetsfan]

Supporting a **** franchise is not a good thing if the owners have been salary-cap freeloaders and salary-dumpers for decades on end, like the Royals have.

Technically they didn't start down this path until after the strike. Then about 2006 they actually started trying again. Even though the playoff drought was much longer, the Royals really only punted about 12 years, little more than a single decade. I'd also argue that supporting a **** franchise is better than no longer having a franchise.

 

[Starman]

Supporting a **** franchise is not a good thing if the owners have been salary-cap freeloaders and salary-dumpers for decades on end, like the Royals have.

Technically they didn't start down this path until after the strike. Then about 2006 they actually started trying again. Even though the playoff drought was much longer, the Royals really only punted about 12 years, little more than a single decade. I'd also argue that supporting a **** franchise is better than no longer having a franchise.

Where were they gonna go, Buffalo?

 

[nmmetsfan]

Supporting a **** franchise is not a good thing if the owners have been salary-cap freeloaders and salary-dumpers for decades on end, like the Royals have.

Technically they didn't start down this path until after the strike. Then about 2006 they actually started trying again. Even though the playoff drought was much longer, the Royals really only punted about 12 years, little more than a single decade. I'd also argue that supporting a **** franchise is better than no longer having a franchise.

Where were they gonna go, Buffalo?

I didn't say a move was ever imminent or even discussed. Beats the **** out of me where they'd go.

 

[Pancamo]

Almost as irrelevant as winning an ESPY.

 

[poindexter]

Supporting a **** franchise is not a good thing if the owners have been salary-cap freeloaders and salary-dumpers for decades on end, like the Royals have.

btw, unless I am mistaken, Ol' Ned Yost had this big diatribe this summer about the lack of support for some late season series.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

It used to mean something, quite a lot actually, but that ended sometime in the early '90s, right when the Michael Jordan era started. Now it's just what moves product. For actual sports accomplishment, Bumgarner and McIlroy should be favorites. Former has no chance, latter some. Editor's note: Three of the greatest champs in tennis history, Djokovic, Nadal and Federer, have never won it and never will. If they'd played in the 1960s, they all would have.

 

[old_tony]

Why don't they just do a regional Sportsman of the Year, similar to how they've bastardized the covers?

That way everybody in the country can have a proverbial trophy.

Sending the orange slices in the mail can get a little messy.

 

[HanSenSE]

No love for Giants fans who survived Candlestick Park?