*****Official 2024 Royals Season Repository Thread*****

[ChiefsCountry]

Year Two of the Matt Quatraro tenure. Time to take a step up this year. Active in free agency and trades this offseason. A new look pitching rotation and bullpen. Will the young players take the leap up offensively? Bobby Witt extension? New stadium? Will Vinny recover from injury? Salvy taking aim at the Royals record book? Will Cole Ragans turn into the best Royals starting pitcher since Greinke 1.0?

Free Agents/Trades Acquisitions
Seth Lugo, SP
Michael Wacha, SP
Kyle Wright, SP
Hunter Renfroe, OF/DH
Will Smith, RP
Chris Stratton, RP
Nick Anderson, RP
Adam Frazier, 2B
Garrett Hampson, INF/OF
Matt Sauer, RP

[GeorgeZimZam]

[GeorgeZimZam]

The K is ready for the #Postseason . @kmbc pic.twitter.com/U8nY4O2VwQ

— Jackson Kurtz (@jacksonKMBC9) October 8, 2024

[cmh6476]

Former royal related

https://x.com/Buster_ESPN/status/184...kZ7Jc6j1g&s=19

[GabyKeepsMeWarm]

So who's got tomorrow's GDT? Lewdog?

[GeorgeZimZam]

Originally Posted by GabyKeepsMeWarm

So who's got tomorrow's GDT? Lewdog?

You’re up until we take another L.

[GabyKeepsMeWarm]

Originally Posted by GeorgeZimZam

That Terry Cashman dude really beat the baseball horse to death with that melody. If memory serves, the original song was just a simple little diddy about baseball and it's overall history. Then I think he ended up doing a version for every team? Something like that...

And I'm almost positive "You've got a hit on your hands!" was the slogan from the 1985 season. Pretty sure "Go for the action" was 1982? And things got really slick in 1983 when it was "Turn on the action". I think 1984 was "Something Special in the Air". Always liked that one. 1986 had "The Thrill of it All!" But things started to get pretty bad though in the 90's leading to one of the worst, albeit memorable slogans: "You've gotta love these guys!" Not the best time for our pr/marketing crew.

I could go on and on blathering about this crap, but I won't.

[WilliamTheIrish]

77 was “We’re Riding The Big Blue Bus” might still have the bumper sticker.

78 was Catch Royalmania.

76 I’d have to ask Denny.

[WilliamTheIrish]

2014 was “Be Royal”. They showed that commercial at halftime of the Super Bowl locally.

And after Justin Maxwell closed the 13 season with that grand slam, I was pumped.

[DJay23]

Originally Posted by GabyKeepsMeWarm

That Terry Cashman dude really beat the baseball horse to death with that melody. If memory serves, the original song was just a simple little diddy about baseball and it's overall history. Then I think he ended up doing a version for every team? Something like that...

And I'm almost positive "You've got a hit on your hands!" was the slogan from the 1985 season. Pretty sure "Go for the action" was 1982? And things got really slick in 1983 when it was "Turn on the action". I think 1984 was "Something Special in the Air". Always liked that one. 1986 had "The Thrill of it All!" But things started to get pretty bad though in the 90's leading to one of the worst, albeit memorable slogans: "You've gotta love these guys!" Not the best time for our pr/marketing crew.

I could go on and on blathering about this crap, but I won't.

The Thrill of it all...Royals Baseball!!

This sticks in my head the most because it was the first season I paid full attention to damn near every pitch.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by GabyKeepsMeWarm

That Terry Cashman dude really beat the baseball horse to death with that melody. If memory serves, the original song was just a simple little diddy about baseball and it's overall history. Then I think he ended up doing a version for every team? Something like that...

And I'm almost positive "You've got a hit on your hands!" was the slogan from the 1985 season. Pretty sure "Go for the action" was 1982? And things got really slick in 1983 when it was "Turn on the action". I think 1984 was "Something Special in the Air". Always liked that one. 1986 had "The Thrill of it All!" But things started to get pretty bad though in the 90's leading to one of the worst, albeit memorable slogans: "You've gotta love these guys!" Not the best time for our pr/marketing crew.

I could go on and on blathering about this crap, but I won't.

Go on….cause this is not boring to me.

[smithandrew051]

All I can hear is the Simpson parody that Terry Cashman did for the softball episode

[GabyKeepsMeWarm]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

2014 was “Be Royal”. They showed that commercial at halftime of the Super Bowl locally.

And after Justin Maxwell closed the 13 season with that grand slam, I was pumped.

And wasn't "Be Royal" kinda riding on the coattails of that Lorde song popular at that time? I lived in NYC in 2014, but I distinctly remember more than one person bringing up the Royals simply due to Lorde, which I thought was damn peculiar, but hey, Royals. That's cool, even if it's because she saw a National Geographic magazine and got inspired...

This is really gonna rack my brain, but as I'm remembering them, there's so many that are just so bad and totally unmemorable!

For some reason, "Royals Fever! Catch it!" rings a bell, but I might be making that one up. I think 1988 might've been "Get in the Swing of it!". "Catch the Thrill" always made me laugh because the PR dept was clearly out of ideas at this point, and things started to get really bad. "It's Here!", "Catch All the Action!"... ****ing seriously guys? "This is Hardball!", yeah, hard to ****ing win... "KC Royals, Your Hometown Team!" Wasn't 2003 "We Believe!"?

Oh yeah... Just remembered this early aughts gem... "True. Blue. Tradition", and the next year was "New. Blue. Tradition". HAHAHAHA, ARE YOU ****ING KIDDING ME?

"Our Time" stuck with me. That was when we brought up all those top prospects, Hosmer, Moose, Salvy, etc...

"Raised Royal" and "Forever Royal" are simple, but pretty good. I'm missing a lot, but those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head...

[GabyKeepsMeWarm]

The thing that really separates the slogans now from the 70'/80's/early 90's was they used to come up with actual melodies to go with the slogan, as "You've Got a Hit on Your Hands" clearly illustrates in the above video. I can still remember all those little songs in my head... there's gotta be a way to find some old Royals commercials that include the song/slogan for each year... Go, go, go, go for the action! I can still remember that shit clearly...

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by GeorgeZimZam

The K is ready for the #Postseason . @kmbc pic.twitter.com/U8nY4O2VwQ

— Jackson Kurtz (@jacksonKMBC9) October 8, 2024

That field ****s! So beautiful

[Coach]

https://www.royalsreview.com/2015/2/...hout-the-years