Monday Poll results: Royals fever returns

Royals catcher Salvador Perez hugged teammate Mike Moustakas after the third baseman hit a home run in the fifth inning of Monday’s season-opening game against the Chicago White Sox. JOHN SLEEZER The Kansas City Star

It wasn’t hard to engage in some home team enthusiasm on Monday as we devoted our weekly poll to the fate of the Royals. It’s interesting to note that collectively we’re not overly optimistic given your divided predictions over the team’s end-of-season status.

Here are the results of the unscientific survey, based on more than 200 responses.

1) This season will end with a World Series parade through downtown.

Strongly agree 15%

Agree 33%

Disagree 43%

Strongly disagree 9%

2) First baseman Eric Hosmer and third baseman Mike Moustakas (congratulated, right, by Salvador Perez after his home run Monday) will (finally) emerge as superstars.

Strongly agree 18%

Agree 64%

Disagree 16%

Strongly disagree 3%

3) Relief pitchers Greg Holland, Wade Davis and Kelvin Herrera, as a group, will be even more unhittable.

Strongly agree 24%

Agree 45%

Disagree 28%

Strongly disagree 3%

4) Baseball will help unite this community throughout the summer, as it did so well in the 2014 postseason.

Strongly agree 40%

Agree 52%

Disagree 7%

Strongly disagree 2%

5) Sorry, the Royals will be out of the pennant race by August or so, and we’ll be talking about the Chiefs and football instead.

Strongly agree 6%

Agree 11%

Disagree 42%

Strongly disagree 41%

This story was originally published April 7, 2015 at 3:26 PM with the headline "Monday Poll results: Royals fever returns."

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