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A Royals fan carries a prosthetic leg with “KC Royals” printed on it through Aggieville after the Royals won the World Series Sunday night.
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ou didn’t think they were going to make it easy, did you? The Mets fans spent the night swirling orange towels and lifting up their Batman masks to show the camera their screaming faces, delighted by strikeouts and weak groundouts, but alas, they had revealed their secret identity. Up on the mound, the man behind the mask, Matt Harvey, wasn’t the knight of darkness, he was just a very talented but tired pitcher. Syndergaard wasn’t any god of thunder, he was just an extremely promising starter and walking shampoo commercial.
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Bill payers are expected to pay 8 percent less on natural gas during the winter season, according to Dawn Ewing, spokeswoman for Kansas Gas Service. “During the last winter heating season, our average customer incurred bills totaling approximately $515,” Ewing said to the Topeka Capital Journal. “For the same period this coming winter, we’re forecasting customer bills to total approximately $475.” In the past decade, production of natural gas increased, resulting in a decrease of prices. The decrease in natural gas prices recently hit a low of $2.10 per million British thermal units, according to the Topeka Capital Journal. Last year the price was about $4 per MMBtu, and has dropped since it was $11 per MMBtu in 2008.
David Wright wasn’t Captain America, he was just a weary-eyed veteran, and the leader of the just-fallen-short 2015 New York Mets. No, despite these Mets’ superhuman abilities, bowling ball curves and thousands of NLDS home runs, to see the true sign of heroes you needn’t look up to the Bat-Signal in the dark New York sky, but down to the letters “D.V.” carved out in the dirt. This team will be known forever for scratching and clawing in the dirt for everything they got. Those letters, D.V., of course stood for Daniel Volquez, father of games one and five, starter Edison Volquez, who passed away the opening day of the World Series, and now weighs on the heart of his son. Those letters stood for the incredible emotion-
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The Kansas budget is headed toward a multimillion-dollar deficit, according to the Associated Press. Gov. Sam Brownback did not approve a tax increase in addition to the tax increase on both sales and cigarette purchases back in July. “It was, you know, just such an ass-kicking,” Sen. Jim Denning, said in the article. “We’re not going to go through it again.” According to Shawn Sullivan, state budget director, Brownback and his affiliates will cut spending and adjust the budget in other ways. see page
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Matt Warner, 2009 K-State alum, cheers for the Royals during the final game of the World Series while watching it at Tanner’s Bar and Grill in Aggieville Sunday. The Royals had five runs in the 12th inning, winning the game and the series. al fortitude of Edison, and for Connie Moustakas and Charles Young, the respective parents of Royals third baseman, Mike Moustakas and versatile wonder-pitcher Chris Young, who also passed away earlier this year. The letters stood for the indomitable spirit of the divinely-inspired Royals, who built up and conquered the insurmountable again and again; and, again, tonight they conquered. For a magical team that seemed to never make it easy on themselves with extra innings and shocking comebacks, they sure made it look easy. They’ve finally reached salvation after wandering the desert for 30 years and getting agonizingly close last year. Volquez threw a fierce six innings, minimizing the Mets to two runs as he walked off the most meaningful pile of dirt his spikes ever shaped, but Harvey lived up as well, and was more or less cruising through eight innings. But there was Salvador Perez, blowing up exaggerated bubblegum – much like their opponent’s hope – before violently popping it and chewing it up as the Royals would complete their 8th comeback victory of this postseason.
Kelli Myers, 2007 K-State alum, celebrates the Royals’ World Series win.
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OPINION monday, november 2, 2015
Student selection: are we on manual instructions? a “no” is everything, but perhaps science isn’t everything. Perhaps reason and logic are just overrated and incorrectly throned on the top of the human evolution. Belief and faith are equally, if not more, strong, and can displace reason simply because it exists without it. You can explain how gravity works, but not why. Of course, if a person believes that his life is in the hands of fate, you can’t shake that off him no matter how many counter-reasons you cook up in the lab. And that’s just it: a lab constructs reason, a human constructs faith. Perhaps even, there is no ultimate answer. Maybe, the answer is your faith. But one thing is for sure: if you don’t have faith or believe in something, peace is unattainable. You can be happy believing (or not believing) in one thing, but if you are iffy about your choice and choose not to trust, then the world becomes uneasy, anxious, hopeless. Absoluteness, they say, does not exist. But in the world of trust it does. What do you think now? Are you finishing this article due to external programming scripted on your DNA or did you do it of your own free will? You are welcome to tell me in the comment box, but for my part, I like to think I wrote this on my own, with a little help from someone out there (and The Collegian) to get this to you.
PRIYARSHINI GHOSH the collegian
At this very moment, I’m writing an article on free will (and the lack of it) and at this new moment, you are reading it. Do you think you’ll end up reading to the end of this piece or will you, for whatever reason, stop halfway? Do you think you have anything to do with that, or is it just you following someone’s instructions? Must it sound absurd that you’re following someone’s instructions to read this essay? Perhaps some of us cherish the belief that our actions are solely controlled, acted out by ourselves and no one else has a hand in that. And some of us might even believe in being the proverbial puppet, dare I say, on the strings of fate. Could we be free molecules of lawlessness, free to run around as our own wishes dictate or are our wishes themselves dictated by higher, cosmic, divine forces not meant for us to perceive? On the one hand, we could be chaotic all on our own, our lives a reflection and result of only our transgressions, and of our surroundings perhaps. The good and the bad things that happen to us are only a result of which molecule of action or train of thought hits us in the face, accidentally and unintentionally. Every bit of life is therefore innocent and un-taught. We simply are. Yet again, we could be pre-programmed entities, just living out what someone’s coded us to function like. We are but actors in a movie, scripted all the way through, except that we consciously don’t know that we are a character acting out someone else’s story.
Illustration by Kent Willmeth Whatever’s in store for us (or not) has already been decided, we like to call it “by fate,” and there’s no deviating away from that. And then there is the darned middle ground: some aspects in our own control, some in fate. Are we responsible for our own thoughts and actions, but things that happen
to us purely a work of storytelling? Does anything really happen “by chance” or is it a path to a different direction? Is this an essay, or a load of questions? Honestly, I don’t know the answers to those questions. Simply because I am of the opinion that there are none. Beliefs
transcends facts, evidence and hard work. Trust and faith take a person beyond science and laws. If a person chooses to believe he is on his own without any outside control, whether he’s right or wrong is irrelevant to him because you cannot convince a true believer otherwise. To a scientist, a “yes” or
The views and opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of The Collegian.
Priyarshini Ghosh is a graduate student in nuclear engineering. Please send comments to opinion@kstatecollegian.com.
The onus of funny is not on the audience, it’s on the comedian
JONATHAN GREIG the collegian
Iconic, funny people like Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld are loudly speaking out against political correctness in today’s age, saying that it’s severely damaging comedy. Seinfeld told late night host Seth Meyers that “there’s a creepy PC thing out there that really bothers me,” while Rock has complained about the issue on college campuses and “their social views and their willingness to not offend anybody.” There have been many other comedians who have
joined them in their anti-PC message including Jim Norton, John Cleese, Patton Oswalt, Gilbert Gottfried and Lisa Lampanelli. Part of their argument is that people of our society are much more inclined to be offended nowadays and offer such restrictive pushback on what they deem “offensive” that it is hurting comedians. Big-name comics like Trevor Noah and Louis C.K. have had to deal with public backlash over jokes on Jews and Saturday Night Live routines on pedophilia, respectively (although it’s easy to argue that these particular jokes were just plain unfunny). Who’s to tell how many young aspiring comedians have seen their aspirations handed back to them after offending some of their audience? One of the problems with these complaints, however, is that this “age of PC,” which these comedians and strange bedfellows like Donald Trump
like to rail against, is in all actuality a revolutionary age of free speech under the law. Followers of comedy, or even constitutional amendments I suppose, should well know the very different story in the age of Lenny Bruce and, later, George Carlin, both of whom were arrested, not un-followed on Twitter, for offensive jokes. So let me offer this: maybe if you get an overwhelmingly bad reaction to a joke, the joke wasn’t funny enough to deserve otherwise. While you who whine about the challenges of modern comedians in today’s environment fail to keep up with the sensibilities of your audience, other funny people are making it work. There are two major tracks of comedy emerging out of the supposed out-ofcontrol PC age: one turning inward, and one turning into the skid. Comedians are finding
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wild success in confessional comedy – an inward look into personal vulnerability – and you need to look no further than people like C.K., Tig Notaro, Katherine Ryan or Mark Maron. C.K. explores shame, Maron famously deals in cards of anxiety or self-defeatism, and Notaro exploded in fame when she bravely set forth into her now-revered Largo stand-up set by beginning with, “Hello, I have cancer.” And, if deeply confessional comedy isn’t your thing (which we shouldn’t expect from comedians), there are other comics thriving, not suffocating, on offensiveness and whatever political correctness out there provides hot air. In the New York Times article, “Political Correctness Isn’t Ruining Comedy. It’s Helping,” Jason Zinoman describes offensive success out there, including famously stinging comedian Anthony
Jeselnik. If you’re willing to wade through social media backlash, you can still be rewarded. “I don’t tell dark jokes because I’m a comedian, I am a comedian because I tell dark jokes,” Jeselnik was quoted as saying by New York Times. Success can still be earned in comedy, and the complaints we’re hearing now seem to be nothing more than a cranky wish for humor not to change – an odd and futile wish if I’ve ever heard one. Sarah Silverman, in an interview with Vanity Fair, seemed to fall on the same note. “It’s not hard to change with the times, and I think it’s important,” Silverman said. “And when you have new information and when you become more aware of the world around you, you can change.” If you’re not making as many people laugh anymore, adapt for goodness’
The views and opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of The Collegian.
Jonathan Greig is a senior in anthropology. Please send comments to opinion@kstatecollegian.com.
IF YOU COULD LIVE IN ONE PLACE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, WHERE WOULD IT BE AND WHY?
ARIANA TUBBS
JIACHEN HUANG graduate student, biomedical sciences
JINGYAN ZHAO graduate student, journalism and mass communications
“Texas because there is a lot to do! Plus, Beyonce is from Texas.”
“Wherever she lives...”
“Wherever he lives...”
freshman, biology pre-med
sake, don’t just get stuck in your ways and complain as the sensibilities of modern audiences pass you by. What’s the point of complaining? A comedian’s finest work is exploring new insights and new paradigms that surprise us and enthrall us and make us laugh, not trying to pull us back to convince us that what you said was, in fact, funny. Comedians have long been an engine of societal self-awareness and change, but now some seem to be falling behind instead of leading. You don’t have to be PC or not PC necessarily - just make sure to be funny.
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TEBILA NAKELSE
doctoral student, agriculture economics “Burkina, Africa because there are many challenges to solve and things to give back.”
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Women’s hoops start the year with Washburn RILEY GATES the collegian
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he women’s basketball team have their first competitive matchup as they welcome the Washburn University Ichabods for their first of two exhibition matches this season inside Bramlage Coliseum today at 7 p.m. The game will mark the start of Jeff Mittie’s second season as head coach in Manhattan and his 24th overall. Mittie’s first season was a solid improvement for the K-State program. The team went 19-14 last year and ended in the second round of the WNIT Tournament as K-State fell to Missouri in Manhattan. Before last year, the program hadn’t seen any sort of postseason play since the 2012-13 season. “We’ve got a lot of new faces, and that’s one of the things that’s been very interesting,” Mittie said. “With all of the new faces, there is a very different phase of where everyone is at. You have the returners at a whole other level of what they can process and do in practice. And then you’ve got that young group that still isn’t there. So that has
been more challenging than last year, when you had everyone on the same learning curve.” Of the 14 players on the roster for 2015-16, six are completely new to the K-State program. Washburn, Monday’s opponent for K-State, cannot say the same for their roster; the Ichabods do not include a single true freshman. Madison and Makayla Vargo are the only classified freshmen on the team, and the two both redshirted last season. New faces on the roster are not the only things that are different for K-State in 2015-16. There are also new changes to the way that the game itself is played. Instead of two 20-minute halves, the game will now be played in four 10-minute quarters. When it comes to fouls, teams used to shoot “one-and-one” free throws when the opponent got to seven fouls. That will now begin at five fouls instead, and the fouls will reset to zero at the end of each quarter. K-State’s projected starters are Erica Young, Megan Deines, Breanna Lewis, Kindred Wesemann and Shaelyn Martin. Washburn’s projected starters are Erika Lane, Julie Ravn, Haley Pfau, Alyxis Bowens and Felisha Gibbs.
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Head coach Jeff Mittie points to line out his team during the women’s basketball game between K-State and Texas Christian University on Feb. 11, 2015 at Bramlage Coliseum. K-State defeated TCU 93-79.
Lady cats dominate Horned Frogs in four sets AVERY OSEN the collegian
The K-State volleyball team got a sweet win on Halloween night versus the TCU Horned Frogs inside Ahearn Field House. The Wildcats won the first two sets and bounced back after a third set loss to win the match in four sets. “I thought we played exceptionally well and hard,” head coach Suzie Fritz said. “The match was like pingpong with a big ball. There were lots of spontaneous plays and we got our hands on a lot of balls.” K-State has won six of its last seven matches and is tied with TCU for fourth in the conference. “I don’t think too much about the past or the future,” Fritz said. “I feel like right now we are getting better and that’s huge. I think that’s all you want as a coach is to see improvement with your team.” They were led on offense by junior Brooke Sassin with 15 kills, followed by freshman Alyssa Schultejans who had 13. Sophomore Bryna Vogel contributed with 12 and freshman Macy Flowers had 10 kills on the night. Junior Katie Brand, who had 48 assists on the night, ran all of the offense, as she earned yet another double-double and still leads the Big 12 in that category. In the first set, neither team gave much ground as the biggest led by either team was three. With the Wildcats down by three, they rallied to win the next four to win the set 25-23. With the score 11-10 in the second set, K-State went on a 5-1 run which was started by a
Equestrian team ties with Baylor, falls just shy in raw score LIZ HEATH the collegian
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Sophomore outside hitter Bryna Vogel slams the ball toward Texas on Oct. 21, 2015 at Bramalge Coliseum. The ‘Cats lost 3-0 against Texas. Vogel kill to take a 16-12 lead. TCU came back and got the score to an 18-16 deficit, but the Wildcats won seven of the last eight points to win the set by eight. Both teams were even, but at the score 20-all, TCU won six of the final seven points to stay
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alive and win the third set. The Wildcats came out swinging in the fourth set taking a 11-3 lead. TCU fought back and made the set close, but lost 25-22 and the Wildcats won the match 3-1. K-State is now tied with the Horned Frogs for fourth in the
Big 12 with a conference record of 6-4. The Wildcats are 14-8 overall and will host Texas Tech this Saturday. “I’m really pleased with the progress we are making,” Fritz said. “I still think we can get a lot better and want to use the month of November to do that.”
It came down to the wire for the K-State equestrian team Friday. The Wildcats finished the day tied with No. 3 Baylor at 9-all, falling just shy in raw score 1452.3-1347.3 to take the loss. K-State moved to 1-2 on the season and are now 0-2 in the Big 12. “Baylor is a really great team,” head coach Casie Maxwell said to K-State Sports. “They came to us with a 4-0 record and they were definitely someone to be intimidated by and we were not.” This was the second consecutive tiebreaker victory for Baylor, after they last went on the road against No. 7 TCU. Baylor is now 5-0 overall and 2-0 in the Big 12. K-State fell short in Hunt Seat, 3-6. The Wildcats started out strong in Equitation over Fences, defeating the Bears 3-2. Sophomore Halle Kutsche earned a point for the Wildcats with an 82-81 victory over Baylor’s Shannon Hogue. Junior Christina Martinelli added another point with a 80-76 victory over Baylor’s Rachel Van Allen, securing her second win of the season. Baylor’s Gabby Conte was disqualified during warmups, giving sophomore Daniella McCormick another point for the Wildcats. The Bears regrouped in Equitation on the Flat, sweeping the Wildcats 4-0. The Wildcats rebounded
in Western, riding past Baylor 6-3 to tie up the meet. The comeback started in Horsemanship as K-State overpowered Baylor 4-1. Starting things off for the Wildcats, sophomore Paige Kemper scored 74.5-69 over Baylor’s Charlotte Green. Senior Danielle Kemper claimed her second win of the season against Baylor’s Bray Bergstrom, 67.564. Junior Alyssa Lombardi remains undefeated this season as she rode past Kaylee Mellott, 73-70.5. Sophomore Ashley Anderson managed to squeeze past Baylor’s Mary Brown with a score of 70-69.5. Going into Reining, the score was tied 7-7. K-State and Baylor went back and forth, trading scores to finish out the discipline 2-2. Senior Nicholle Hatton managed to slip past Baylor’s Elizabeth Shank with a score of 69-68. Freshman Taylor Todd earned her second win of the season with a 68-66.5 win over Baylor’s Michelina Carbone. The final score resulted in a tie, and the Wildcats came up just short in the raw score. “We just came out swinging for the fences and kept going and fought till the very last ride,” Maxwell said to K-State Sports. “I saw confidence in our girls that I have not seen all year. I hope they do not see this as a loss and take this as a tie against a really good team and continue to build off of this.” Up next, the Wildcats will be back Nov. 13 at Timbercreek Stables to take on No. 7 TCU.
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Thoughts on Wildcats’ 80-42 exhibition win
TIMOTHY EVERSON & ANDREW HAMMOND the collegian
Sports editor Tim Everson and lead basketball beat writer Andrew Hammond give their separate takes of K-State's 80-42 win over Emporia State in the first of two exhibition games.
TIM'S TAKE
Stretching back to this summer, the 2015-16 iteration of this team's message was clear: 'Last season was last season; we're worried about now.' This message was the best and only way to start off this year after everything that went on with last year's problem child of a season. Friday's 8042 win over Emporia State, however, was the first time they really got a chance to showcase that mentality. Keeping in mind that this Hornets team is nowhere near the caliber of a Big 12 basketball team, Friday was encouraging. Effort was abundant. Young guys who were getting their first experience playing under the lights of Bramlage Coliseum – albeit with a fairly light crowd due to poor weather, a Royals
game and a Manhattan High football game – looked confident and seemed to be having fun. The veteran players seemed to fit their new role of leaders for this very young but extremely promising K-State team. Defensively, the Wildcats were there holding the Hornets without a field goal for over 13 minutes. Offensively, K-State was there throwing up 40 points in a first half for the first time since the 2014-15 season opener versus Southern Utah. Even with all of that said, the biggest improvement that I saw (keeping in mind that it was just Emporia State ... and not a very good Emporia State team) is in the point-guard play. Freshman guard Kamau Stokes and junior guard Carlbe Ervin II give the Wildcats their first true point guards since the departure of Angel Rodriguez after the 2012 season. This team is young and they may have only been playing a division two school but there is plenty of promise being shown. You'd hope to see improvement next Friday for the second exhibition versus Fort Hays State, especially with the likely return of junior forward D.J. Johnson.
QUOTE OF THE GAME
"You know, with all of the new guys I felt that guys were nervous, kind of, in the beginning," junior forward Wesley Iwundu said on his team's performance. "But as the game went on, I felt it all came together and we
most of the game, so it was hard to gauge if the Wildcats were clicking just right or if this Emporia State team wasn't good at all. For the Wildcats, it was good to see this team get out there and build some confidence as they journey towards a very tough and challenging uphill battle to reach the NCAA Tournament. It’s clear that this team will go through Iwundu, senior point guard Justin Edwards and senior forward Stephen Hurt inside. It was nice, however, to see some of the young guys get in on the action. Junior forward Austin Budke and freshman forward Dean Wade will have to bring a consistent effort each night for this team to have any type of success in 2015-16.
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Cassandra Nguyen | THE COLLEGIAN
K-State freshman guard Kamau Stokes dribbles around Emporia State senior guard Charles McKinney during the Men’s Basketball game between K-State and Emporia State Friday in Bramlage Coliseum. The Wildcats defeated the Hornets in the exhibition opener 80-42. just saw what we were capable of as a team. I think guys did a good job sharing the ball with each other and just showing a lot of team skills."
ANDREW'S TAKE
Look, we all kind of figured that this game really wouldn’t give us an indication on how good this team is or can be. It’s the first game of the
season, you shouldn’t expect much. That said, there are a few things you can take away from this one. First, we knew Emporia State wouldn’t offer the greatest challenge to K-State – but seeing is truly believing. On what could be considered a “garden variety” type of night for the Wildcats, Emporia State was pretty bad. They struggled from the field
“Oh yeah, there’s no doubt," head coach Bruce Weber said of his team’s first game of 2015. "The scrimmages are good, it’s just that there’s no emotion in that when you play the scrimmage, there’s no one in there. You play and you play hard; you don't have this feel and I just thought we needed to play with some lights on and TV and all that stuff, and I thought in the second half they started to get a little more comfortable, especially some of the younger guys." Timothy Everson is a junior in mass communications. Andrew Hammond is a sophomore in mass communications. Please send comments to sports@ kstatecollegian.com.
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According to AP, the other budget adjustments include “shuffling money among various government accounts.” “I’m not going to officially take it off the table at this point,” Sullivan said in the article. October’s tax collections will be evaluated today to determine whether tax revenue has continued to decrease. The fiscal forecast estimates a collection of $6.2 billion in tax dollars. According to AP, the state’s total annual budget is $15.3 billion. Kansas tax revenue fell short $67 million last year. Kansas is not alone in budgeting problems. According to the federal government, the national economy grew only 1.5 percent during the summer. According to Arturo Perez, a fiscal analyst
with the National Conference of State Legislatures, the U.S. is still recovering since the end of the Great Recession in 2009.
FORENSIC SCIENCE LAB OPENS AT WASHBURN UNIVERSITY
Today, a new forensic science laboratory opens. The multimillion-dollar lab is located at Washburn University in Topeka, according to the Associated Press. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation will use the new lab, replacing the old lab located in a renovated junior high school. The new facility will also house Washburn University’s forensic science classes. According to Kirk Thompson, KBI director, the new space meets both current and future desires and needs of the KBI.
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Here’s maybe the most impressive thing in a sea of superlatives we could lay at this Royals team’s feet: down two to nothing to the man they call the Dark Knight going into the ninth, every Royals fan, in one collective breath, genuinely said, “We have them right where we want them.” Mets manager Terry Collins decided before the ninth that Harvey was done for the night. He was going to his closer, Jeurys Famalia. That is, until Harvey found out, and passionately demanded back in to complete the dominating shutout he had at his fingers. Collins trusted in his ace, sending him back in, and Harvey fought to carry his team; both were worthy of admiration. But tonight, Harvey’s confidence played out like Greek hubris. If these Mets are heroes, then the Royals have been the Greek gods to enforce their will upon them. Tonight, they certainly punished that hubris. Lorenzo Cain led off with a hardearned walk and the last batter Harvey would face, Eric Hosmer, atoned for his earlier error with a corner double, bringing in Cain with no outs. After two groundouts, Hosmer shockingly came
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home on the most aggressive taking off for home I’ve ever seen. Mets first baseman Lucas Duda seemingly had a good chance to gun down a flying Hosmer after recording the out at first, but his throw home was wide, and Hosmer slid through the most meaningful dirt that has ever stained his uniform, tying the game at 2-2. We had them right where we wanted them. As we’ve seen, teams cannot hope to match bullpens with these flame-throwing, air-bending, hope-dies-here relievers of Kansas City and the team again came through in extras. In the 12th, eventual World Series MVP Perez set forth the inevitable, leading off with a single and letting well-known speed enthusiast Jarrod Dyson onto the base paths. Dyson predictably and magically stole second, moved to third on Alex Gordon’s groundout, and crossed the plate as the go-ahead run when deep-bench infielder (and former first round pick) Christian Colon showed off yet another weapon of clutch for this never-say-die team. After the Royals took that 3-2 lead, Alcides Escobar brought in another with a double down the line, breaking the postseason record for consecutive games with a hit (this was his 15th), and the most ever single postseason hits from the
shortstop, topping Derek Jeter’s record of 22 (Escobar hit his 23rd). Cain followed shortly after with a bases clearing double, before turning a 7-2 lead to cyborg Wade Davis, who as usual, dominantly finished the inevitable. World Series champions. Similar to the 2004 Red Sox team that broke through decades of championship drought to win the World Series – who laughingly called themselves “a bunch of idiots” – this breakthrough champion Royals team is a bunch of oxymorons. Their low-homerun, low strikeout lineup doesn’t fit in with modern baseball sensibilities, but they conquered. Their built-backwards bullpen then starters pitching firepower doesn’t make a lot of organizational sense, but they conquered. ALCS MVP Escobar is maybe the worst idea for a leadoff hitter, but he sure as hell conquered. Images of this team will last forever in the annals of baseball, and, more importantly, to both long-suffering diehards and the younger fans filled with the magic of the moment. This is a team you’ll tell your grandkids about, and all their friends whether they like it or not. I know some clichés are rearing their heads tonight. I hope you’ll forgive me for them… I just can’t stop smiling.
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