One Game At A Time

At 7:07 on Friday night, the 10th of October 2014, the first pitch of the ALCS will be thrown. It will be, as you are all aware, the furthest The Royals have been in the post season since 1985. As fans young and old begin the countdown to game one and Kansas City prepares to host games three, four and possibly a fifth, the tension will be almost unbearable. Everything this team has played for this year, all of the ups and downs, will be on the line.

Sure, it’s only game one, in Baltimore, but that first pitch represents much more. It personifies all of the patience, frustration, agony and greater frustration felt by every Royals fan for more than a generation. It also represents the utter relief and joy fans finally got to feel after beating the A’s in the wild card game and sweeping the Angels in the division series- a city’s collective exhale after that long rollercoaster ride of a season.



The Royals and their season have become a national story. They are everywhere on the internet, television and radio. People all across the country are talking about Royals baseball, no doubt learning player’s names and perhaps where Kansas City is located on a map. They have become America’s baseball team. They have been underdogs the whole season and they will be again in Baltimore. They are a team without mashers, flashy players, overpriced hired guns or household names. They are a small market team with a payroll somewhere in the middle of the MLB map, yet they keep beating better teams with much higher payrolls. They are a team that plays small ball, and they play with speed and heart. They are a cast of loveable characters playing loose baseball. They have outstanding starting pitching and play stingy defense. They manufacture runs and play fundamentally sound baseball. On Friday, they will need everything to click and maybe some luck to grab a win in The Charmed City.



The Royals are four wins away from a trip to The World Series, but hopefully their minds are only on the game tomorrow night. A victory tomorrow ensures a split in Baltimore and a split would be huge.

So, forget all of that trash coming from the east. Leave St. Louis alone. They will have their hands full with the San Francisco Giants, a team that beat them four out of there seven meeting. Sure, their fans will try to bate and taunt you, but who cares. That’s what they do. Royal’s fans, much like our team, need to only look one day ahead and enjoy every second of what surely will be wild ALCS.

**Prediction-Royals in 5

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