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Kansas City Royals: A horror movie for each season of the past decade

By Cullen Jekel

KANSAS CITY, MO - OCTOBER 21: A fan dressed as a Storm Trooper from the movie Star Wars looks on prior to Game One of the 2014 World Series at Kauffman Stadium on October 21, 2014 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
KANSAS CITY, MO - OCTOBER 21: A fan dressed as a Storm Trooper from the movie Star Wars looks on prior to Game One of the 2014 World Series at Kauffman Stadium on October 21, 2014 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) /
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Billy Butler #16 of the Kansas City Royals  (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images)
Billy Butler #16 of the Kansas City Royals  (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images) /

2011

Kansas City Royals: 71-91

Movie: 1978’s Halloween

Quick bone to pick: I find it very lazy for sequels or prequels, even after decades, to be titled exactly the same as the original movie in the franchise. 2018’s Halloween is guilty of this as is 2011’s The Thing (which, please skip).

It’s a little different when a reboot is guilty of this, like the terrible Rob Zombie Halloween (2007) and this year’s Child’s Play. Then again, reboots, as a rule, are just lazy. I’ll go ahead and allow a remake to use the same title, like 2006’s The Omen, which wasn’t all that bad, honestly.

Anyway, in the credits for the OG Halloween from way the hell back in 1978, Michael Myers is absent, instead giving way to “The Shape.” Pretty decent name for the boogeyman, if you ask me. Especially one who wears a William Shatner mask while butchering a ton of people.

Actor Tony Moran, as masked kiler Michael Myers, wields a knife in a still from the horror film, ‘Halloween,’ directed by John Carpenter, 1978. (Photo by Fotos International/Courtesy of Getty Images)
Actor Tony Moran, as masked kiler Michael Myers, wields a knife in a still from the horror film, ‘Halloween,’ directed by John Carpenter, 1978. (Photo by Fotos International/Courtesy of Getty Images) /

Here’s where I make the 2011 Royals connection. At first, I only thought about the movie as a whole, but finally, when I began thinking about the ending, it clicked. If you don’t recall, the movie ends with Dr. Loomis shooting Michael Myers, and Myers falling out of a house.

After Loomis checks on Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), he goes to check on The Shape. More to the point, he goes to check on the body he just shot and left for dead. Only it’s not there.

Bingo! There’s the connection! The 2011 Royals looked just like any other team the club had managed to produce, and any viewer would’ve thought them dead and destined to remain in the bottom portion of the AL Central.

But the Royals, just like The Shape, turned out to not be dead after all.

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