{"id":567967,"date":"2026-02-12T10:19:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/567967\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:19:52","slug":"what-was-the-most-miserable-royals-season-you-endured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/567967\/","title":{"rendered":"What was the most miserable Royals season you endured?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Most readers here love the game of baseball and love our Royals, but there are some seasons that truly test us. The hitters can\u2019t hit, the pitchers can\u2019t throw strikes, the ball gets kicked around the field, and the losses pile up. By June, you already have an eye towards Chiefs training camp. You\u2019re a real sicko if you\u2019re watching a 106-loss Royals team get beat down by the Twins in front of a few hundred fans in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">By pure losses, here are the worst seasons in Royals history:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But maybe it was a season that was miserable for other reasons &#8211; Dick Howser\u2019s death in 1986? The strike-shortened almost-contention of 1994? Maybe it was miserable for reasons in your personal life?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Royals fans have lived through rebuilds, retools, collapses, and the long, quiet stretches in between contention windows. So let\u2019s ask the uncomfortable question: what was the most miserable Royals season you ever endured as a fan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most readers here love the game of baseball and love our Royals, but there are some seasons that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252,72937],"class_list":{"0":"post-567967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascityroyals","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-royals","16":"tag-royals-review-question-of-the-day"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116057160001921942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}