The Kansas City Royals are in the World Series! How cool is that?
Greg Rahe was – right on – yesterday when he suggested to Ron they ought to go back to opening the World Series on a weekday afternoon.
Those were the good old days for sure.
Greg’s comment made me remember as a boy I often developed a stomach ache on the day the World Series started so I could leave school and listen at home.
Fact is my mom even helped me out once by sending a note to my teacher suggesting “Stevie might be getting sick! “
What a day yesterday was for the Royals organization?
How funny was it when owner David Glass was presented the American League championship trophy and the lady said “I never thought 20 years ago when you became an owner this would ever happen?”
Over the years she was not alone.
Dayton Moore has had his share of detractors as well. It has taken the Royal’s General Manager quite a bit longer than hoped to realize success, but who’s counting now?
And of course there’s everybody’s favorite whipping boy – Ned Yost. Not long ago the Royal’s manager was being booed at the “K” on a somewhat regular basis. The Wall Street Journal even called him a dunce! But ‘ol Ned is getting the last laugh. Turns out being a good leader is more important than doing what the experts think you should have done – usually after the fact.
Yost’s biggest asset in my opinion is he doesn’t get too high when things are good nor too low when they are not so good.
As I record this on Tuesday afternoon I, of course don’t know what happened last night, but I am sure the Royals played hard and made us proud.
Predicting baseball is harder than forecasting the weather. ESU’s fine baseball coach Bob Fornelli says it best when he suggests – if his team played the Yankees a hundred times he’d find a way to beat them at least once.
Baseball is totally unpredictable. Maybe that’s why it’sAmerica’s pastime.
Don’t get too high and don’t ever give up – it’s baseball and until there’s 3 outs in the ninth you still have a chance. You gotta love our Royals!
