Fuzzy Memory

Since last year, the White Sox have gone 10-0 against the Royals at Kauffman Stadium, a place I’d always associated with the most painful of losses. Think George Brett and Willie Wilson, Mike Sweeney and Billy Butler. Indeed, those ten wins leave the Sox at 189-213 while visiting the Royals, and yet we’re 418-392 against KC all time. I would’ve had it reversed, with twenty or thirty more losses thrown in. According to mcubed.net, it all depends what decade you look at. Sox teams visiting in the 1970s, 1980s and 2010s served as human punching bags while those from the 1990s and 2000s had themselves a good old time. It's just like me to remember the losses over the wins, but it’s not like me to misremember who did the beating. Baseball-reference.com shows that Brett and Wilson did OK-plus but not great against Sox pitching. Oh, Sweeney and Butler did absolutely feast on Sox pitching, but they did it together for only one season, in 2007. They were more of a pass-the-baton affair from 1996-2014. Funny what we remember and how we remember it. I’m pretty sure the Royals did play on AstroTurf for the longest time, though. Right?