ROYALS!

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What a comeback, what a team.

Never say die.

[NYC_SKP]

1. I LOVE them!

George and Poppy Carlton!

[Cheap_Trick]

2. it's been 29 years a comin'

That game was exhausting just watching.

[Jamaal510]

3. Worst trade ever, Billy Beane.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

11. Even Billy is not infallible

I'd still take him over Epstein or Cashman, any day.

[lastlib]

4. Hoping I FINALLY have to take down my 1985 WS championship banner--

It's still on my wall from the '85 Series. It's kinda been a talisman for me, to remind me that "impossible" good things CAN happen. (I'm still waiting for my personal miracle, though..........but that's another story.)

[lastlib]

32. Well, I guess it's safe for another quarter-century........

. . . . .

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5. And again!

Winning on a home run, of all things. Mooooose!

[Paulie]

6. I miss them so

Mint M&Ms are NOT the same.

[archiemo]

7. I've been wearing my Freddie Patek jersey a lot these days!!!!!

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8. And again!

Another extra inning game, another victory, and another game won with a home run.

Team of Destiny???

[gratuitous]

9. And again!

Cain is able! Bring on the Orioles.

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10. And again!

Take that, league home run leaders! Two dingers in the 10th, and the Orioles taste defeat in the post-season.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

12. You mean this?

[Nedsdag]

13. Cute!

I'm playing that record as we speak in honor of the baseball team.

[geardaddy]

21. Apparently, some SF radio stations have a ban on that song.

While one KC station plays it every hour on the hour.

[gratuitous]

14. And again!

Late inning fireworks come through again for Kansas City!

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15. And again!

Another tight win, on the verge of going to the World Series! Who woulda thunk it? Time to say, "Bye bye Birdies"?

[lastlib]

16. MOOOooosssse!!!!!!1! (Does the dugout get an assist on that play?)

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17. And again!

Bye bye Birdies, Hello World Series!

[Arugula Latte]

18. OK, I really am not sports oriented at all. I thought you were talking about the Lorde song too.

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19. And again!

A little long-ball medicine for the National League champs, and they don't like the taste of it at all. Let's go to Frisco and see if we can't wrap this up!

[hifiguy]

20. I am rooting for the Royals, big time.

Not that I have anything against the Giants. But Royals fans have waited SO long. And I always cheer for a scrappy underdog team.

And holy shit, that murderer's row bullpen. They play six-inning games with those guys out in the pen. Doom awaits once they hit the mound.

[KamaAina]

24. Nice post, El!

(Sports Group denizen El Supremo has a nasty habit of referring to the City By The Bay as "Frisco". )

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25. Well, when you're a Royals fan

Royals fans have been down so long, we don't know from smack talk. So the best I could come up with was to call San Francisco "Frisco."

[KamaAina]

26. The best I can come up with

is to call the AL team the "Boils".

[bigwillq]

22. Rooting for KC!

[KamaAina]

23. My friend in Manchester is a staunch anti-royalist

as, at the moment, am I.

[hatrack]

27. And again - in an absolutely classic nailbiter!

I swear, I was about to start eating my own hair tonight . . .

[gratuitous]

28. And again!

Bending but not breaking, the Royals move to within two games of the champeenship.

[gratuitous]

29. And again!

Blowout! Time now for the sweetest words in sports: Game 7.

[lastlib]

30. "...at Home"

Wow! So much like 1985--Royals facing oblivion, take the wind out of the opponent's sails......blowout!

[hatrack]

31. 10-0!!!!!!!!!!

Ouch!