Does Cinderella have enough time to win two more games before the clock strikes us out?
Is there enough fairy dust left? The Kansas City Royals will find out over the next couple nights.
We knew all along that our hitting was weak at best.This team was built on defense,speed and pitching. However you need to score some runs. I felt, as we all probably did, that game 4 was ours. The Royals had (for them) a big lead at 4 to 1.
And the team was all smiles, but it was early.
To early to go to Herrera, Davis & Holland. Then the bottom fell out.
Our other pitchers got lit up and the Royals couldn’t get any more hits or runs. It was a crushing defeat. And last night was even worse against the monster pitcher from San Francisco, the new Sandy Koufax. He shut us down and out, 5-0. Now the boys in blue have to win two at home.
Can Hosmer, Moose, Cain, Gordon and Butler make enough noise to win two at home? Can KC’s starters hold the Giants hitters down long enough to make it to our shut down bullpen stars? Will being in front of that loud and crazy hometown fan base spur the team on…again?
Let’s face it, nobody thought the Royals would go deep in the playoffs.
A World Series was just a pipe dream, but hey, they did it. They got to the big dance for the first time in three decades. They made our city feel proud again. And the baseball world was asking, “Who Are Those Guys?”
The after parties in Westport and P & L have nearly worn everyone out. The month long playoffs with four different teams has been an exciting journey that nobody expected or could even believe. Yet the Royals did it.
So even if Kansas City doesn’t win the world title there is much to be thankful for .
Especially after both of our pro teams have failed to matter much for so many years.
Tampa Hali’s $1,000 extra tip at Fogo de Chao October 24th
Today the Royals do matter.
And the Kansas City Chiefs are playing the best they have in years, with a broken line up, no less.
So there is still magic in the air. Who knows when and if this type of run will ever happen again for our city. We’ll talk about it for years to come.
A run that gave players with no names outside of KC a stage and a platform to show they belonged. An opportunity to show off the best Royal of all one more time, George Brett. The nation was reminded of just how great Brett was and how important to Kansas City he has become – both on and off the field.
Win or lose there will be a parade, parties and everyone gathered around the big screens or in the ballpark to watch and hope again. Nobody can say for certain how it will end, but this team is just too surprising to say, you know…
IT’S OVER, IT’S OVER, IT’S OVER
Well, let’s hope that’s true… for the Giants.
rePEAT AFTER ME..
ITS OVER..ITS OVER…ITS OVER…
thanks for being a good sport.
Just think, The Mad Bum isn’t even the best pitcher in the NL…. If he’s the new Sandy Koufax, what does that make Clayton Kershaw?
Beef Stew.
“If (Bumgarner is) the new Sandy Koufax, what does that make Clayton Kershaw?
– as a Dodgers fan since the 1960’s say I, a $215 million boondoggle with a post season era of 7.82 to Mad Bum’s 1.11.
MB has outpaced the Dodger on the field and much to the chagrin GIANTS management, will likely outpace CK too in the era bank account, soon enough.
Look for the Bum to pitch game 7 if needed. Ouch!
Guy is right, wow, that dude is amazing…
And only a year older than last night’s Giants Killer
CG, I just got a wake up call, shoulder my conscience tapped upon by mine memory. Kerouac enjoys posting here/elsewhere because a) it provides insight/is fun (though some posters take Kerouac/other things far too seriously, bless their insecure selves), b) it is an exchange of opinions via new information gleaned, hopefully & c) because I as others are able to do so, forum being available.
All that to say, not living in KC anymore probably ratchets down my passion & natural inclination defend former hometown teams a few notches; wasn’t always this way.
AFL Chiefs playing in Superbowl 1 vs the greatest football team ever assembled, afore or since, Green Bay’s Packers. Hindsight, recall excitement that was Kansas City then, January 1967, more so than January 1970 Superbowl 4, my opine. Two rival leagues – a Mickey Mouse team the AFL same, according the experts. Predictions a 50-0 or 60-0 Packer rout did not dissuade locals say otherwise, nor did the prediction materialize, hindsight.
The late KC Star Sports Editor Joe McGuff actually predicted a Chiefs win, saying “I think Kansas Citians will be celebrating a victory later this afternoon”, 27-17 his bet. Kerouac cried that day: ended 35-10 Green Bay, but only made local residents here more determined get back, deliver payback. It never happened vs the Packers & in fact took 3 years before we revisited Superbowl, but return we did and win as well.
In the intervening 40+ years since, sports has become bu$ine$$ as usual, embrace of the wallet moreso the heart, mine. While I no longer follow the Chiefs same passion as before, more out of habit, as baseball great Joe DiMaggio said when asked why it was he always played hard, “it may be the first time someone is watching me play.” So for younger (or old) Chiefs/Royals fans may never pass this way again, I understand that fervent defending of one’s home honor, and/or love.
Like MacArthur said (but unlike Doug/Kerouac hoping see it through) “I shall return” after an brief intermission a few days. A guilty conscience or pleasure, I am unable to reconcile my respect what the GIANTS have done ongoing, with the progeny former A’s I once loved, Royals. For once, sign off with no witty banter, ‘cept to say ‘good luck to the Royals & Chiefs’. And well, just that (nod Cubs MLB & Browns NFL), ‘there but for the grace of God go we’, KC.
🙂
Perhaps a modification of this quote is how I look at your posts.
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
― H.L. Mencken
K you are the best man. I love your work, always have. Thank you for posting on my articles, I appreciate your words….don’t ever stop. You are so much more talented a writer than I, tons more. Words of wisdom consumed.
Glaze, I luv ya, but putting verbs after nouns does not a great writer make.
Tamba Hali and Glazer must go to the same math tutor.
Either that or maybeTampa’s just a better tipper
Math was my favorite in high school. I’m pretty good at it. I never needed a tutor in my life.
2 plus 1 does not equal 4 glaze.
and math was not your best subject in school.
according to king of sting…your best subject was PU$$y!!!