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Royals take all the fun out of a nice Friday

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There was really only one word for Friday night’s game: Depressing. You hate to use that word on a fireworks Friday night leading into Independence Day. There was a sellout crowd at Kauffman Stadium, and RLBS (Royals Lone Bright Spot) Zack Greinke was pitching, and the weather was just about perfect, and, hey, at the end of the day it’s still major-league baseball, a wonderful thing for a city to have.

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