OK, so I turned off Game 6 as soon as Fox TV declared in the seventh inning that the Kansas City Royals had already won.
Nothing happened after that, right?
Hey, good for Fox. We all needed the extra sleep and an early start on figuring out how the unstoppable Royals are going to deal with the unstoppable Daniel Murphy.
And we all need a few extra minutes to sum up all that happened in the two championship series, including the classic that was Game 6 (OK, I lied. I did keep watching. All the way to the amazing end).
It was quite a night and quite a week, and now we end up with the teams that won the World Series in 1985 (Royals) and 1986 (New York Mets) and haven't won it since. We get a hitting coach who was fired by the New York Yankees (Kevin Long of the Mets) up against a pitching coach who was fired by the Yankees (Dave Eiland of the Royals). We get two great closers (Jeurys Familia of the Mets and Wade Davis of the Royals), neither of whom began the season as a closer.
We get Lorenzo Cain (above) and Murphy, who both might just show up later on in these Bleacher Report awards for the championship series.
Let's get started so we can finish before the World Series begins. And yes, Fox was right—in the seventh inning and again at the end. It really is Mets vs. Royals.
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