Readers react to a Hollywood story, Royals leadership and Kansas City’s image

Hollywood story

Someone please contact Kevin Costner and suggest that he make a movie about our miraculous Kansas City Royals. He is so good at taking the underdog story and making it wonderful.

Kevin Costner would make a great Ned Yost.

Rita Hartsook

Olathe

Leadership model

The 2015 World Champion Kansas City Royals are players who every theater director desires, scouts and nourishes — a true ensemble. They are people, actors or athletes, who work together while honing their personal skills.

This is a snapshot of what really makes every American great — cooperation working in conjunction with community. This is also what we, the people, should expect and demand from our elected officials and leaders.

There is never, ever one savior but the many working together to ensure that the good of the whole and that the will of the people be the paramount goal. It took every single Royals player to execute an amazing season and the phenomenal come from behind wins over the New York Mets.

Shouldn’t we expect the same dedication, community involvement and moral compass from those who would seek the nomination for president of the United States? If we are honest, this eliminates every single one of the GOP candidates. Period.

Congratulations, Royals, and the people of Greater Kansas City for true community involvement, dedication and a well-deserved world championship.

Rosemarie Woods

Kansas City

Redoing KC image

Despite the announcers’ incisive and complimentary descriptions at nearly every play, we do have to give some thought to the future image of the Kansas City Royals. How do Kansas City’s world champions get regarded as Major League Baseball legends to be feared — rather than tenacious, technically correct, young players who just “happened” to win?

More than before, rising tides raise all boats — and Kansas City should be that tide. We’re not a New York City and must get better known and more involved, nationally and internationally — and it should have happened long ago.

Bill Doty

Overland Park

Kudos to The Star

Thank you for the awesome coverage of the Kansas City Royals. We know you could not complete your articles until the game was complete, but they were wonderful.

You really burned the midnight oil. The ninth-inning breakdown was so exciting to read, bringing back memories of the game we watched the night before.

Your photos were excellent and action-packed. The full-page photos featuring a single player were a nice bonus.

Give yourselves a pat on the back. We appreciate you going the extra mile for our boys in blue and your readers.

Joyce Dugger

Overland Park

Destiny’s team

The Kansas City Royals. A team of destiny.

Frank Solomon

Kansas City

Kauffman thanks

Thank you Ewing Kauffman. Without you none of our Kansas City Royals greatness would have been possible.

Mike Regan

Fairway

Daring run home

In Game 5 of the World Series against the Mets when Eric Hosmer scored in the ninth inning (and the way that he scored), I yelled, “There’s no way this team’s gonna lose this game (11-2, BB6, “Kings of Queens”)!”

Elwin McKenzie Jr.

Peculiar

Commentary plus

I enjoyed the many articles on the Kansas City Royals by The Star’s sportswriters. A Nov. 3 column, “Royals pride is a tie that binds,” by Mary Sanchez and a Nov. 3 column, “Good grief, Royals and ‘Peanuts’ are my heroes,” by Jeneé Osterheldt were certainly noteworthy.

They were a good respite from the statistic laden, but welcome, Royals sports articles.

Thomas Holman

Plattsburg, Mo.

Education lost

Our community celebrates the success of the Kansas City Royals. Their triumph over the New York Mets brings pride to our entire community.

Creating a parade to honor their success is wonderful. However, I am disturbed about the closing of schools for such a celebration.

One of the great challenges facing our community is the state of our public education. Our school district struggles to meet state and federal standards.

What message our we sending to our kids by closing schools? Are we saying that baseball is more important than education?

In our social value hierarchy, education must be a higher priority than sports. We should celebrate the Royals, but it needs to be done at time and place where school attendance does not have to be compromised.

Rabbi Alan

David Londy

Kansas City

Exceptional effort

I stayed up way past my bedtime to watch the exciting Royals come from behind and win the World Series. I was looking forward to the next day so I could sit in my easy chair and read every story about the Royals.

As I was trudging up the stairs to go to bed after midnight, it occurred to me that the reporters might have gone home and the stories about the Royals’ fantastic come back would be delayed a day. Much to my surprise, when I came down to take my dog on his early morning walk, there was my Star in the driveway.

Thanks for the extra effort. The stories were great.

Phil Langley

Lenexa

Sour parade note

I was very disappointed by the hundreds of Kansas City Royals fans who went downtown Tuesday for the parade and rally and showed a lack of civility and a total disregard for laws and other people’s property by driving and parking wherever they felt like it.

In addition to filling private parking lots, they were parking on the grass next to the streets — sometimes two and three cars deep along both sides of the sidewalk. There were people driving the wrong way on one-way streets, going around other cars stopped at stop signs and even driving on sidewalks.

Many of these people had children with them. What kind of an example are they giving their kids?

Thousands of other fans had a good time without breaking the law and inconveniencing other people. Why couldn’t everyone?

Jane Poe

Liberty

Celebration excess

It’s great that the Kansas City Royals have won the World Series. The games boosted the economy, which is a good thing.

What I personally find ridiculous is some of our citizens have the same mentality they had in high school. The players have become millionaires now if they weren’t already, and The Star portrays them as heroes.

They will be invited to the White House as heroes. Real heroes like U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle were not even acknowledged by the administration.

Maybe I’m being a scrooge. It’s just the magnitude of the celebration that seems strange.

Schools were even dismissed. When we lag behind even Vietnam in test scores, how is this a good idea?

Steve Prosser

Overland Park

This story was originally published November 3, 2015 at 9:00 AM with the headline "Readers react to a Hollywood story, Royals leadership and Kansas City’s image."