Before anyone forgets, the Kansas City Royals are still the champions, at least until the late-October night when MLB crowns the 2016 World Series champions. And unlike in boxing, when you look back to find "the man, who beat the man, who beat the man," this is not nearly as hard.
The other boxing adage that the Royals' recent play (15-5 in August) brings to mind is that until you knock the champ off the mountain top, they are still the champs.
If the season ended Aug. 21, and in Baltimore, don't fans wish that were the case, the sliding Orioles would be the second Wild Card team by .5 games. It looked like the Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers were in a fairly favorable position to overtake the Orioles, and even the team not named Boston or Toronto who will win the American League. But now, like the proverbial bat out of hell, the Royals are drinking the dregs of their champagne and playing as if they intend to at least scare the bejesus out of teams that thought the Royals were in their rearview mirror.
