Kansas City Royals Win the 2015 World Series and It Has Been an Unbelievable Journey

The Kansas City Royals are your 2015 World Series Champions. I cannot believe I typed that sentence and it is true.

In one of the wildest five-game World Series of all-time, Kansas City trailed the Mets in 4 of the 5 games and yet came back to win all except one of them. Game 1 went 14. Game 5 went 12, after a 2-run rally in the bottom of the 9th after Matt Harvey tried to go one more inning.

A player that had not batted all post-season, Christian Colon, had the go-ahead hit in the 12th inning, before the flood gates opened.

A never-die attitude. Some luck and bounces. A great bullpen. A deep lineup. Whatever you want to say about it, quite frankly, I don’t care. This was a pretty good team all year, near the top of the standings, and then they got to the postseason, battled back against Houston, battled back against David Price in a key game 2 against Toronto, and repeatedly refused to get down when trailing against the Mets, allowing New York to make the big mistake.

So I’m just going to sit back and celebrate for awhile. Because this would be like the Cleveland Browns winning the Super Bowl in a couple of years. That’s how amazing this is. It’s not just 30 years between titles, it’s the depth of those 30 years that makes this so sweet.

Baseball in Kansas City was pretty much a wasteland for most of my adult life, and I was 11 years old when the playoff appearances with George Brett ended with the 1985 World Series win. I remember going to games where Mark Teahen was the cleanup hitter, going through years when Ken Harvey was the default All-Star and they never really had an All-Star, and where the bullpen was straight flammable. The Royals have had long-suffering fans for twenty years who went out to the park and had to laugh through the tears.

Now we get to cry through the smiles.