I am curious. Aside from Royals and Mets fans, was there much interest in the Series this year? I didn’t sense a whole lot of enthusiasm.
I didn’t notice much. I watch the World Series every year and I see and talk to the same people who do the same each year, and that number diminishes as they die off.
I was very tuned in. SF Giants fan here. It was a great series, very exciting, lots of drama, and I feel for the Mets and their fans - nobody wants to lose by playing so poorly. But I’m happy for Royals fans, the Royals play the game like it’s supposed to be played. Even if the Mets brought their A game every night, KC would have won it anyway. In 7.
I’m not specifically a fan of either, although I live in the media catchment of the Royals organization. But I am a Royals-fan-in-law, since my wife lives and eats and breathes white-and-Royals-blue.
(I’m a Mariners fan myself, but that’s completely irrelevant to any discussion of the MLB post-season. :mad:)
But I’m a fan of good baseball, and frankly, the Royals this year have been that, in spades. So watching their performance, and being able to say I witnessed some epic baseball shit, is worth it to me.
The media numbers I saw showed that the Sunday Night Football matchup between the Packers and the Broncos drew a lot more TV eyeballs than what turned out to be the final game of the World Series. I watched both (NFL inset in Picture-in-Picture), and I still found the baseball game more compelling.
I’m a Yankees fan, but enjoyed watching the Royals in last year’s WS, and followed them also this year. I always watch all of the playoffs because you really get to see great baseball played no matter who’s in the contest.
I’m hearing estimates anywhere from 500 to 800 thousand people jamming downtown for the parade. People just pulled over on the interstate and left their cars to walk to the parade. Hour and a half waits for a bathroom. And only three arrests…
I was listening to audio from the KCPD/Fire command post throughout the day.
It was amazingly routine. Proud of my city.
We will keep our hopes up for the evening.
Yeah, my hats off to our city. Even the night they won their was no trouble. No riots. No looting. Nothing. Even at the big outdoor party at Power and Light the crowd celebrated without hurting anyone or anything. Unlike other cities where people took a victory celebration as an excuse to riot.
We drove down to just do a drive thru and damn, that was enough. We saw people parking everywhere. But no angry people. No yelling. People just took things in stride. In Olathe the line to get on the shuttle buses was 3 hours.
And that 500-700,000 number would probably be a million if they counted all the people stuck on the highways or in the shuttle system or who simply gave up (like we did) and went home.
Oh I should mention.
One thing weird. Some of the “police” were not KCPD but Department of Homeland Security officers. That was different. I guess keeping an eye out for terrorism.
That was a cool 60-second time lapse video of the parade route.
Yes, we Okies salute you as well, were commenting on that very thing …no riots, just joy.
Likewise here in California. You KC fans were great. Not like some of the idiotic hooligans who caused problems after the SF Giants won, that was embarrassing.
It’s finally starting to sink in that the team I’ve rooted for since I was a child won the World Series again. It was such a surreal series - somehow, it was much different than last year. Last year, I was just in awe of the whole thing - they were actually playing meaningful October baseball. The unfinished business this year gave it actual expectations - realistic expectations.
I was able to drive out for Game 1 with a friend of mine who’s been a Mets fan since HE was a child. We had a great time (me obviously a little bit more than him), my seats were unbelievable, and what a game! At no point until Hosmer’s slide did I think we had it in the bag - the Mets have too many arms to close the gap. Just unreal. Just unreal.
My wife showed me a fun picture on Facebook - someone took the sea-of-blue crowd-shot photo looking out from Union Station up the hill towards Liberty Memorial, and added the caption “Hey Taco Bell, Kansas City’s coming for breakfast!” 
Now at least these fans have a trophy to ride around with on their bandwagon. 
I’m happy for you and for all the long-time Royals fans who waited so long for this championship. When the Giants won in 2010, my long wait was over. Many fans don’t get to celebrate ever in their lifetimes. We are the fortunate few.
Yes there are some bandwagon jumpers. As a team’s winning season approaches the fall, more and more jump on. That’s just how it goes. Jump on, I say, the more the merrier. It makes the people happy, walking along anywhere and seeing a perfect stranger wearing team colors, and being able to greet him/her with a simple “Go Royals!” Your world becomes a happier place. And at those games in late summer and early fall as your team is making a championship run, the whole stadium is one big friendly family. It’s like we’re all in a big love fest, and when a run scores you can high five the stranger next to you.
It’s a great feeling! And it doesn’t happen often so enjoy it while you can.
There is not some, there is a metric shit-ton. Three seasons ago you’d only see a tenth of the Royal merchandise you saw this year. As a long time season ticket holder of the team across the state, it would piss me off seeing that here. As a fan I’d be asking where were you during the rough seasons.
Ah, I guessed you were a Cards fanl before I even got to that part of your post.
For some reason they’re the only ones whose asses hurt about this.
Trust me, most were rooting against the Mets.
It was like watching your less-liked, inferiority complex suffering, little brother finally get the girl.