Get in, losers, WE’RE GOING TO HOUSTON

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  1. Do we know if anyone from the 2014/2015 teams was there celebrating? (Besides Perez of course), I know George Brett was.

  3. Very happy for myself but extremely happy for big number 13. He’s been through a lot. The absolute grind this guy has been on the last 9 years.

  8. Love how the rest of the post game crew was like “Oh boy, here we go.”, but Hud is like “HELL YEAH BROTHERS!”

  14. What’s funny is the Royals can go to Baltimore if they do one game better than the Tigers the next two games…which is a miracle if that even happens because the White Sox are probably not beating the Tigers once, and also the Royals have a losing record against both possible WC matchups this season, but you never know

  15. Let’s echo 2015 and send Houston home early in the post season!!!……or we could go ‘14 and sweep Baltimore!!

  16. We will, in fact, be underdogs (pretty big underdogs) in *any* playoff series. This is both accurate and fine. Bobby is about to go off like fucking Reggie Jackson in October ([or how his buddy performs in the playoffs](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FydhjIoWIAIcgoB.jpg:large)). Playoff Salvy is a force and the rest of the guys will scrap on offense. Starting pitching can dominate and we may have pieced together an actual bullpen (with MAYBE 2/3 of an HDH backend). **In a short series, that may be all you need**. Every year, some shocking team makes a deep run. WHY THE FUCK NOT US????

  18. Honestly. Houston or Baltimore. I don’t care. Houston has histroy, but Baltimore has the better club IMO. Either way, they gotta face the underdog that plays street ball. LET’S GET IT BOYS.

  20. Not to go all psychological or existential… but this means more to me than any Chiefs win outside of a Super Bowl (and I love both teams equally). The Chiefs are an all-time team. They know it. We all know it. When they win (which they usually do), it’s increasingly felt a bit like a *relief* rather than something to celebrate. Because we know they *should* win making the idea of a loss more painful than the excitement of a victory.

    The Royals? Oh, I had a kajillion reasons to doubt (and did MANY times in gamethreads lol). That they are playing in October still feels like something bigger than I could have hoped for. If they go on a deep run, it would feel like some sort of cosmic victory that the universe *did not want them to achieve*. It would be some transcendent shit (and Chiefs wins are no longer transcendent outside of a Super Bowl). There’s also the nature of the MLB season… it’s long. You see highs and lows from players many times to the point it feels like you have a relationship with them. The NFL trades in scarcity and exclusivity. That’s exciting… but it doesn’t make the personal connection the way baseball does (just by it’s nature).

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