{"id":2286151,"date":"2026-02-17T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2286151"},"modified":"2026-02-17T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:06:10","slug":"if-you-could-change-one-moment-in-royals-history-which-one-would-it-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/if-you-could-change-one-moment-in-royals-history-which-one-would-it-be\/","title":{"rendered":"If you could change one moment in Royals history, which one would it be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We all have regrets. That includes baseball teams like the Royals, who have the moves that didn\u2019t pan out, the moments that didn\u2019t go their way, the pivotal decisions that could have worked out differently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Time travel stories and alternate histories are some of my favorite genres of fiction. What if a man decides to take the subway instead of a cab, does he miss meeting the love of his life? If a butterfly flaps its wings in China, does that lead does that somehow lead to a tornado halfway across the world? Small choices can echo in ways we never anticipate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Baseball is like that, too. A draft pick goes one slot earlier. A manager sticks with a pitcher one batter too long. A front office pulls the trigger on a trade, or decides not to. A runner is held up, or maybe he\u2019s sent and is thrown out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Royals history is full of \u201csliding door\u201d moments. What moment in Royals history would you change? Would it be Game 7 of the 2014 World Series? Would you pull Dan Quisenberry in the 1980 World Series? Or perhaps you\u2019d like to change a small transaction that could have allowed the team to be competitive in seasons that didn\u2019t pan out. Re-do a draft? Pull the trigger on a trade? Keep a manager who was fired?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Go back in time and alter the course of history!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.royalsreview.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have regrets. That includes baseball teams like the Royals, who have the moves that didn\u2019t pan out, the moments that didn\u2019t go their way, the pivotal decisions that could have worked out differently. Time travel stories and alternate histories are some of my favorite genres of fiction. What if a man decides to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2286152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[439384],"class_list":["post-2286151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-royals-review-question-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/If-you-could-change-one-moment-in-Royals-history-which.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286153,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286151\/revisions\/2286153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2286152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}