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View Poll Results: How old were you in Sept of 1985? | |||
I wasn't born yet | 16 | 10.74% | |
I was not a Royals fan then | 1 | 0.67% | |
I was 0-10 Years old | 51 | 34.23% | |
I was 11-20 Years old | 48 | 32.21% | |
I was 21-30 Years old | 31 | 20.81% | |
I was 31-40 Years old | 2 | 1.34% | |
I was 41-50 Years old | 0 | 0% | |
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09-26-2014, 12:01 AM | #76 |
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09-26-2014, 12:28 AM | #77 |
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Junior in high school. Thought I-70 Series was the dumbest name for that World Series too. Should have been the Show Me Series.
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09-26-2014, 02:09 AM | #78 |
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I was always a football fan first, but there was a time when I was true blue Royals fan.
I remember when Paul Schaal was the Royals 3rd baseman. Lou Pinella was one of our guys. Freddie Patek, Cookie Rojas. Scrappy teams with ALCS dreams. I poured over the box scores every day in the 1970s. I loved those teams built around line drives, base running, defense and pitching. I survived losing the 1976 ALCS to the Yankees. But losing the way we did, in the 9th inning in the 5th game, took a great deal out of me as a sports fan. I went to bed stunned and woke up stunned. I don't think I said a word before 10:00 AM the next day at school. Devastating. I learned I needed to protect my emotions from sports teams. 1977 was stunning. They drew me back in. 102 wins. A couple of really impressive win streaks. That team was so good. We were unbeatable. Until the Yankees. Not as dramatic, but how could we put forth a better team than that one? 1978. Third time is the charm! No, not for the Royals. We'll never win anything. 1980. I wanted George Brett to hit .400 so bad. .400! Couldn't quite get it done. My second favorite regular season as a Royals fan after 1977. We finally made it to the World Series and it was nice to get that monkey off our backs. The World Series was anti-climatic for me. I was a sophomore at Mizzou at the time and too busy with school to devote my full attention to the series. Besides, this team was a shadow of the 1977 team. It seemed clear we weren't as good as the Phillies. My clearest memory from that series was Pete Rose bouncing the ball off the turf every time they ended the inning in the field. I hope that bastard never gets in the HOF. By now, I'm completely numb as a Royals fan. The seasons in between were a blur. Finished my last 2 years of undergrad, got married, then grad school, then early career. No time for a bunch of guys that would disappoint me. I could still name all the players, but much of the core that I loved was long gone. 1985. I watched a few of the playoff games. No big whoop, these weren't my guys any more, other than Brett, White, Wilson, and McCrae. I liked Sabes and Gubicza. Quisenberry was effective but untrustworthy. I may have watched 1 or 2 of games 1-5. We were at a party at my cousin's for game 6. By the 9th inning everyone was focused on the game. Safe? Safe! Instantly it was clear that our fate had changed. We EXPECTED to win game 6 and we did. We EXPECTED to win game 7 and it was a laugher. I really enjoyed that game as a kind of vindication for all the years of post-season disappointment. But it lacked the "umph!" that you get from following a team the entire season. No regrets on my part though. It was also my swan song. Two years later we moved away from KC for good. Baseball is a slow sport, best followed by going to the park, listening to the games on the radio while doing something else, and reading the local rag. Tough to follow from a distance and not made for TV with the exception of the playoffs. And baseball was never my first love -- that was football. And the Royals had left scars. The Chiefs were still gashing new ones. I understood that I could only handle one emotional attachment to a sports team, and that would be the Chiefs. So I said good bye to the Royals. I still followed George Brett, but not the rest of the team. At this moment, I couldn't name a single player. I won't jump on this band wagon. Just not that interested. I wish them well. But even a world championship won't elicit a fist pump, a yell, or cause my feet to leave the ground. |
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09-26-2014, 03:03 AM | #79 |
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I was one years old. No effing clue what I was doing. Probably drooling and looking up at some spinning toy in my crib while shitting my diaper
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09-26-2014, 03:52 AM | #80 |
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09-26-2014, 04:52 AM | #81 |
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Your barracks were over by the Admin Bldg, yes?
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09-26-2014, 05:26 AM | #82 |
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True, it would have been the first out of the inning, but remember, Orta never scored. I think he was thrown out at 3rd. The cards blew several attempts to seal the deal that night.
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09-26-2014, 05:43 AM | #83 |
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Freshman year at Montana State. My best friend was/is a Blue Jays fan. The smack talk was thick during the ALCS.
My dorm roommate was a Cardinals fan. We ended up fighting after game 7 of the World Series. 29 years later, he's still one of the biggest dumb asses I know.
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09-26-2014, 06:27 AM | #84 |
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9 years old. My family had just moved to Overland Park from KCMO. Was lucky enough to go to game 1. Still have the ticket stubs framed. The year before went to a playoff game against the tigers when they lost 1-0 against Jack Morris.
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09-26-2014, 07:00 AM | #85 |
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I used to own a shirt that had a Missouri Mule with a KC Royals logo on its hindquarters kicking the living shit out of a redbird with red feathers flying everywhere that read THE SHOW-ME-STATE SHOWDOWN 11-0
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09-26-2014, 07:04 AM | #86 |
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IN October of 1985 I was trying my best not to be bothered by my S/O with petty details about our upcoming November wedding so I could watch the series with the guys.
I'll never forget being at a place called Wimpy's in St Joseph with 9 friends during game 7 and we all ordered a fresh pitcher of beer and poured them over one another when that last catch was made.
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09-26-2014, 07:23 AM | #87 |
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3 years old living in Enid, OK. Pushing around a bubble mower and following around my dad on the golf course were the highlights of my day back then.
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09-26-2014, 07:24 AM | #88 |
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I was 9 living in a STL Cardinal household. My dad grew up in W. Kansas on the STL broadcast before the Royals came to town. He loved Stan Musial. I was a Royals/Mets fan as my dad let us kids pick our own teams and took us to Kauffman to see the Royals.
It was a long, quiet week after that '85 series. No joke, my dad didn't/couldn't speak to us for a week. He's still a Cards fan first, but he's down with the Royals, though I know he still hates that '85 KC team. |
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And I still don't believe the Phillies were an obviously better team. The Royals blew a 4-0 lead in Game 1 and late leads in Games 2 and 5. We had those ****ers. We should've won that series. I also was pissed off with Rose bouncing the ball off the turf. Also when he got hit by a pitch by Leonard in Game 1, starting the Phillies' rally, and he made a big deal of it by taking a step or two toward the mound before running to first. Such an asshole. |
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