I was trying
to figure out my favorite part about the 2014 Kansas City Royals post-season, and like the late-nacho lunch I should’ve stopped eating sooner, it hit me.
It’s not that I am too young to recall the last K.C. berth. I remember it --
along with shades of the 1980 World Series vs. Philly -- well. It’s not that
this team stumbled in various phases of the season before ripping off an unprecedented
eight straight wins. It’s not that the thing got hairy and thrilling in the
fall classic and took us all the way to the proverbial two-out, two-strike,
bottom-of-the-ninth, World Series game seven moment. And it wasn’t that the run
was great for the franchise, the fans, and the city. All those things -- be
they overstated or lacking in resonation -- were true.
