Guest blogger Jason Iacovino of Owatonna reports from Kansas City.

Dear Kansas City Royals,

I'm writing to personally thank you for the great ballpark, warm sun, and friendly hospitality we received this weekend. Oh, and thanks for helping get our baseball team healthy in the win / loss column, too. I know it's tough to drop four straight at home to a team that was 20-games below .500, but we can always count on you. It's a real treat to have you in our division, KC, and now that we've made up four games in four days on first place Cleveland, we can start to dream again.

To think, in four short days, you've given us hope that we might cut our deficit to single digits by the All Star break and make a second half run. We couldn't have done it without you. I especially want to extend my gratitude for handing us a win on Sunday. Three of four would've been delightful under our circumstances this season, but the sweep was a nice touch.

Don't get me wrong, our guy Brian Duensing was fantastic in eight shutout innings, but it always helps to have a three run lead gift-wrapped before you even take the ball. As you may recall, the last time our crew was at Kauffman Stadium in August 2009 (When this space was known as Section 220), you introduced us to a new baseball acronym called SPF, meaning Silly Plays in the Field. Outfielder Josh Anderson (Who regrettably is no longer a Royal) provided us with a lot of SPF that weekend in our three game sweep.

In Sunday's 91 degree heat, we needed even more SPF and you didn't disappoint. After Ben Revere led off the game with a single, your new guy Eric Hosmer picked up where Anderson left off by inexplicably trying to throw Revere out at second on Alexi Casilla's bunt. Not only was there no chance to get Revere, but Hosmer did us one better by throwing the ball into the outfield, putting runners at second and third. That should've been all the SPF we needed to take an early lead, but Michael Cuddyer popped out on the first pitch he saw and a Danny Valencia walk set up a chance for your boys to get out of the inning unscathed. Delmon Young was about to ground into that inning ending double play you needed, but Royals SPF at Kauffman is the gift that keeps on giving.

Thankfully, your second baseman Mike Aviles had to handle a low throw from Wilson Betimet, double clutched, and couldn't beat Young on the relay to first. Your generous SPF contributed to a 1-0 Twins lead. Jason Repko would add two more runs on a bloop single to center, and just like that, Jeff Francis was tagged for three unearned runs.

Sometimes you need a little extra SPF to protect you from getting burned, and I'm so happy you gobbed it on in that first inning

. We cruised from there. The crazy thing is, this season, our Twins have been generally providing the SPF. Thanks for reminding us SPF is best served by the Royals; I'm hoping we'll stop impersonating you in this regard. I'm tempted to also thank your pitchers for making Alexi Casilla look like Derek Jeter in his prime this weekend, but I actually think the credit goes to Lexi. It seems he became motivated to show us he can make the plays in the field and be productive at the plate, now that Trevor Plouffe is no longer breathing down his neck.

Let's also not forget Matt Tolbert, who drove in two more runs Sunday with a triple to seal the game in the ninth. I don't know if you felt you had to play down to a lineup comprised mostly of Triple-A players in getting swept in a four-gamer or if we're just better off with fresh faces who view each game as an opportunity instead of a chore, but I'm impressed either way.

I'll give credit where credit is due if, after three games in Cleveland, we find out our rejuvenation--no matter how brief--was basically nothing more than your continued generosity.

Maybe we'll keep winning for a while, but even then, I won't forget who helped us the most when nothing seemed possible. Meanwhile, it was fun to be so close the action in Section 113 on Sunday as we were able to personally congratulate the newer, younger Twins as they came off the field after they completed the sweep. I even complimented the umpires on a nice series.

Even as I took great pride in how our Twins came together on a weekend when manager Ron Gardenhire had to juggle his lineup Ringling Bros. style, I won't allow your part in the proceedings to go unappreciated. We'll be back next year, so I hope the warm sun will be shining and you'll have plenty of SPF for us again. We had a blast.

Thanks again, Jason Iacovino