Hope they take home the whole thing. Been awesome to watch them get this close.

Has any time ever not lost one game in the playoffs/World Series?

Good to see the Royals with this run. Pretty exciting to see how their post season has gone, considering they were the major underdogs in all of this.

That being said, I hope the San Francisco Giants destroy every one of their dreams. I want them to have nightmares about Madison Bumgarner and Pablo Sandoval every night for the next 30 years.

Royals best hope is for the Giants to take both games since the last thing they need is for their hot streak to die down like the Tigers a couple of years ago.


In general or just since they've expanded to include the Wild Card?

Has happened a bunch of times before the Wild Card years.

I know it happened before the current wild card set up but I wasn't sure about the latter. Seems like it would be fairly difficult to do now.

Real happy for the Royals, they deserve it

Still wanna see the Cardinals pull this off and get the Battle of Missouri.

Shut up, you dick. Always naysaying. How dare you.

<font color=goldenrod>Fuck the Cardinals.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>So happy for the Royals though. What a run.</font>

Why do I have a sneaky suspicion that KC are going to get swept themselves in the WS?

<font color=goldenrod>...because it happens pretty much any time a team sweeps the LCS and has to wait around?</font>

Rangers hired Pirates bench coach Jeff Banister as their new manager.

Ah hahahah fuck fuck yeah yes

<font color=goldenrod>No idea what Matheny was thinking. Putting in a guy who hasn't pitched in 20 days on the mound in the 9th inning of a do-or-die situation? Christ.

Should be a fun World Series.</font>

SF Radio has banned Lorde's Royals from playing throughout the World Series.

<font color=goldenrod>Chris Young of the Mariners and Casey McGehee of the Marlins are the comeback players of the year.</font>

http://seattletimes.wpengine.netdna-...0.18.41-AM.png

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Last 3 teams to score at least 3 runs in 1st inning of Game 1 of World Series won that series

2004, 2007, 2013 Red Sox
(via <a href="https://twitter.com/EliasSports">@eliassports</a>)</p>&mdash; ESPN Stats &amp; Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/524723920197652481">October 22, 2014</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Don't remember about the 2007 game but the 2004 game also had a bunch of errors and Red Sox almost giving the game away.

Game 1 in the books.

Imagining all the people who "hate Hunter Pence" and say "Oh I hate this guy" when he comes to the plate, Fuck em'

Mad-Eye Pence is the greatest.

I love JD Martinez but the "comeback player" votes for him are a bit ridiculous. What exactly did he "come back" from?

I mean, I know "playing for the Astros" is a pretty cruel fate for any player, but he's 22.

Oh, I was reading his vote # and getting confused. He's 27. Regardless, it's not like he was some elite-level player that suddenly sucked for 5 years then had his 2014 season.

This WS is borinq

Joe Maddon no longer the Rays manager after opting out of his contract with the main reason being money. Neither side was anywhere close to getting a new deal done.

Wonder where the Rays will be playing in a couple years.

I wonder if the Twins will hold off naming a new manager and bring Joe Maddon in at the 11th hour.

Think all the other manager vacancies have been filled, right?

I immediately thought Maddon to the Twins but I thought they had hired someone.

I think they're down to Molitor, Mienkiewicz, and someone else.

Just read somewhere that the Twins are the only team currently with a vacancy, yes.

Cubs sound like the most likely destination at this point. Dodgers could be in play even though both sides have said there's no interest.

Andy Friedman said Donnie Baseball will be back. Unless he turns around and goes back on his word.

Rays rumored to be considering filing tampering charges if the Cubs end up hiring Joe Maddon this offseason.

Rays think the Cubs may have been behind the sudden decision by Maddon to opt out either by them persuading him to do it or had secret talks with him recently.

http://fansided.com/2014/10/24/tampa...ges-joe-maddon

wasn't it explicitly in his contract that he can opt out if Friedman left? how is there a case for this

Yeah I think the Rays mentioned it or it was brought up in the article that he could opt out if Friedman left

<font color=goldenrod>Cardinals outfielder Oscar Taveras has been killed in a car crash. 22 years old. Holy fuck, that's awful.

RIP.</font> :(

Just got the alert on that..crazy

Fuck. 22 years old. :(

Way too young.

His girlfriend died too. Shit.

Fuck just heard on the radio this morning. Awful news.