I penned a Twins-Royals series preview on Tuesday at Twinkie Town. It quickly got depressing.

The Royals are like staring into the future for the Twins; they have a ton of young, highly-touted prospects, they gave up one of the best prospects in baseball (Wil Myers) this year to get a a #1 starter (James Shields) – this is exactly what people want out of the Twins for 2015 or so.

And they did all of this, and now, the Royals are terrible. They’ve lost 15 of 18 now, including eleven straight – ELEVEN STRAIGHT – at home.

I can’t even imagine what it’s like to be a Royals fan. They and the Pirates should swap fanbases for a couple of years; true, they’d still both be disappointed, but at least they’d have a new cast of characters in which to be disappointed.