Friday, November 20, 2015

30 years in the making

They did it!  They finally did it. The 2015 Kansas city Royals are world series champions.  30 years of misery finally came to and end.   It's a great feeling.  As a longtime royals fan, I have seen the losing and winning years, but this season made it special.  Last year the team made it all the way to game 7 only to fall short 90 feet.  That team wasn't expected to get that far and this season they had some unfinished business.  I look at two teams that had won the world series titles back in 1985 and 2015 and compared them by position by position and it's not even close this team is the best royals team ever.

                                            1985                                                          2015
C                                 Jim Sundberg                                          Salvador Perez
1B                              Steve Balboni                                           Eric Hosmer
2B                              Frank White                                              Ben Zobrist
SS                              Onix Concepcion                                     Alcides Escobar
3B                              George Brett                                            Mike Moustakas
LF                             Lonnie Smith                                           Alex Gordon
CF                              Willie Wilson                                        Lorenzo Cain
RF                             Daryl Motley                                          Alex Rios
P                             Bret Saberhagen                                         Edinson Volquez
                               Mark Gubicza                                            Yordano Ventura
                               Charlie Liebrandt                                       Johnny cueto
RP                         Dan quisenberry                                         Wade Davis


The celebration kept on going with a huge parade close to 800,000 people showed and it was an awesome