Is what everyone that follows @ktothes is saying right now. Sorry (not sorry) guys. As you ALL know, the Kansas City Royals had a baseball season. They won the American League Wild Card game, three American League Division Series Games and then three American League Championship Series games, making them unbeaten in the postseason. About 6 months ago, the Royals opened up their season in Detroit and lost. They would lose several more games after that. And then several more after that. We all hoped, but I don't think any Kansas City fans really thought they would be going to the playoffs this season. That wasn't news to anyone who has been following them for the past 29 years, though. The Royals had the longest postseason drought of ANY American professional sports team until a couple of weeks ago. Think about the one team in America that sucks REALLY bad. We can all think of one. Even THEY have gone to the postseason since the Royals were there last. I wasn't even born the last time the Royals went to the postseason, and that was when they won the World Series in 1985. My husband, who is the reason for all these social media posts, has never watched them in a playoff game, as he was 1 month old and has been a fan ever since. While he grew up going to the K to watch games, living in the City who loves this team even though they've given it no reason to, I have only adopted them through marriage. My second home is Kansas City, part of my family lives there, and this team has rekindled my love for baseball that I had when I was a kid, doing infield practice with my Dad, wearing my Chipper Jones Jersey.
Over the past 4 months, moving to Richmond, VA hasn't been the easiest transition for us. It has taken us some time to find community and we don't have quite the schedule we did before we moved, where we were busy or working or being social most hours of our week. That has been a hard transition, but it's also been good for our marriage because we actually spend time with each other. So with all of our free time in the evenings, we watch the Royals. They played 163 games this year. The Wiebergs probably watched, in some capacity, 140 of them. Everyone loves a good underdog story, and the Royals are certainly that. But it's not just a "Poor Royals, this is cute" story. It's a small market team that was able to win with very little team salary, no Derek Jeter type of star power, no national recognition. I will never argue with the whole "the Yankees just buy all their wins!" comments because, well, wouldn't you if you had the money? It's just good business. Pay the best players, win the most World Series Championships. But it is a breath of fresh air to watch these little guys win, with their small ball strategy, speed, and a bullpen full of Cyborgs. (Seriously, Wade Davis isn't human). Kansas City has stuck by this team (and their questionable Manager) for years waiting on this. This World Series really is for the fans, so I'm going to keep hash tagging. Let's Go Royals!
