Kansas City Royals: Walter Cronkite Moment

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We sports fans recognize that there are moments when even the most faithful among us must admit that the party is well and truly over.

I think of these as Walter Cronkite Moments, after Uncle Walter’s 27 February 1968 CBS Evening News broadcast that “We are mired in stalemate in Vietnam.” The war was over, effectively, that evening, and Lyndon Johnson knew it.

Last Friday, there was a Walter Cronkite moment in Kansas City. This time the messenger was an award-winning Kansas City Star columnist, an unapologetic Kansas City Royal booster. Kansas City has a wonderful, multi-generational history in baseball, dating back to the Monarchs and the Blues and Casey himself.

Baseball is over in Kansas City and we know it…

Kansas City Star link