I cut my teeth on series rings... in the 80's
October 4, 2014 5:47 PM   Subscribe

A surprisingly prescient cover of Royals, made back in March 2014. Today the parody is a timely paean to the boys in blue from Kansas City: they have won all three of their post-season games... their first since 1985.
posted by Cold Lurkey (47 comments total) 7 users marked this as a favorite
 
i'm old enough to remember george brett's hemorrhoids.
posted by bruce at 5:51 PM on October 4, 2014 [6 favorites]


I don't know if this is really a parody, per se, as much as it is a variation on a theme considering it was actually George Brett who inspired the original song.
posted by The Gooch at 6:32 PM on October 4, 2014 [8 favorites]


I'm enjoying the hell out of the Royals' play this week, along with Joe Posnanski's articles before the first post-season game, after the first win, and after the second win. Here's hoping for a trip to the Series for them -- they're putting on some really fun to watch baseball.
posted by asperity at 6:47 PM on October 4, 2014 [4 favorites]




If not parody, then perhaps recursive homage?
posted by Cold Lurkey at 6:53 PM on October 4, 2014


Wish I could say the same of my Tigers... they're slated to lose all three of their post-season games (thanks Ausmus et al.)
posted by JoeXIII007 at 6:57 PM on October 4, 2014


Hey, emptythought! That's my name.

I turned 9 years old during the 1985 World Series and have spent the last 29 years trying to convince people it wasn't that long ago that my team was a winner. I mostly quit watching baseball after the steroid era was in full swing but man, this week has been absolutely awesome. I am having a great time watching this team play excellent, consistent baseball, wildly exceeding my (and, it seems, almost everyone's) expectations. It is a total delight. And I can't believe how deeply ingrained my emotional connection is to a team which, to be fair, I have not consistently followed for 15 years. The sports fandom bonds we form in childhood are apparently a lifelong thing, whether we actively cultivate them or not.
posted by something something at 6:57 PM on October 4, 2014 [13 favorites]


Also, I like Bongiovanni's article, and am glad she both got over her attempt at Yankees fandom and acknowledges it as an embarrassing life event.
posted by asperity at 7:00 PM on October 4, 2014


1) Are you personally from the Baltimore, St. Louis, Anaheim, San Francisco, Detroit, Washington, or Los Angeles greater metropolitan areas?

If yes, you may root for your hometown team.

2) Are you dead inside?

If no, congratulations, you are rooting for the Royals to win this year!
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:26 PM on October 4, 2014 [19 favorites]


It's kinda crazy that the Orioles could get to their first ALCS in almost 20 years and not be the sentimental favorites.
posted by escabeche at 8:43 PM on October 4, 2014 [6 favorites]


It's kinda crazy that the Orioles could get to their first ALCS in almost 20 years and not be the sentimental favorites.

This.

I am so enjoying this post-season. I don't want to even say anything else, to avoid jinxing anything.
posted by LobsterMitten at 8:51 PM on October 4, 2014 [1 favorite]


Fangraphs Playoff Odds now giving KC a 1-in-4 chance of winning the World Series!
posted by escabeche at 10:01 PM on October 4, 2014 [1 favorite]


I am rooting for the Royals to win right up until they lose to the Cardinals in the World Series.
posted by BlueJae at 10:16 PM on October 4, 2014 [9 favorites]


1) Are you personally from the Baltimore, St. Louis, Anaheim, San Francisco, Detroit, Washington, or Los Angeles greater metropolitan areas?

I can actually answer yes to more than one of these (grew up in the Bay Area, live about 10-15 minutes from Angels stadium now).

This is a die-hard Angels household, so as you can imagine the past couple days have not been the happiest we've ever experienced. We were at the game last night, leaving at the end of the 10th inning after it was clear my son had had enough. We were about halfway to our car when the sounds from the stadium made it obvious something awful had happened. Sure enough I checked my phone and the 1-1 tie was now 3-1 lead for the Royals.

When I first saw this post I almost flagged it as offensive.
posted by The Gooch at 10:26 PM on October 4, 2014 [7 favorites]


Don Denkinger's name will always be associated with my sexy and deranged roommate from Kansas City, World Series, 1985. Fortunately, no children or animals were involved. Unfortunately, John Melllencamp was involved.
posted by breadbox at 10:35 PM on October 4, 2014 [1 favorite]


John Moe actually did a parody of Royals referring to the Kansas City team also. His is not online apparently and anyway wasn't that funny.
posted by miyabo at 11:05 PM on October 4, 2014


I almost flagged it as offensive

I made my dad sit through a 20 minute brownout during a meaningless May rout. I almost flagged you as offensive for leaving a tied playoff game.
posted by The Hamms Bear at 11:38 PM on October 4, 2014 [9 favorites]


As an L.A. native, I don't have much skin in this particular series, as there's no L.A. teams playing.

But I do love Lorde's Pure Heroine. So: Go Royals!
posted by eyeballkid at 1:11 AM on October 5, 2014 [1 favorite]


Spent nine years of my childhood in KC; my family remains devoted to the Royals. Sis has season tix and was at yesterday's nailbiter.
A Slice of Life in 1985, When the Royals Last Made the MLB Playoffs
posted by GrammarMoses at 4:50 AM on October 5, 2014 [1 favorite]


“The last time the Kansas City Royals were in the playoffs, noted Metafilter commentator ‘sonic meat machine’ was two years old.”
posted by sonic meat machine at 6:55 AM on October 5, 2014 [2 favorites]


My long-suffering, Kansas City-born father has been dealing with overwhelming Yankees fandom at home since I started watching baseball with my mom during Jeter's rookie season. He went to a Royals-Red Sox game a few years ago with folks from work, and people were trying to explain the rules of baseball to him when he was the lone person applauding when the Royals did something successfully.

I hope the Royals take it all the way to the Series this year, because my dad will be so gleeful if that happens! Also, it'd be super fun to have a Missouri equivalent of a Subway Series. An I-70 Series?
posted by ChuraChura at 7:04 AM on October 5, 2014 [4 favorites]


Congratulations to the Royals for being the beneficiaries of the biggest collapse in baseball's recent memory. You utter shits.

Fuck baseball.
posted by Doublewhiskeycokenoice at 7:34 AM on October 5, 2014 [1 favorite]


Ah-eebdbh-eebdbh-eebdbh . . that's baseball, folks!

Although my contract strictly forbids me from rooting for an (*eyeroll*) American League team . . . Oh what the heck - Go Royals!
posted by petebest at 8:03 AM on October 5, 2014 [2 favorites]


I want to jump on this bandwagon but I'm afraid I'll end up first chair playing a rusty trombone.

Ok, stupid jokes aside I'll always root for the underdollardog when watching from afar. KC has a payroll 59 percent of LAAoA or whatever they calling themselves these days.

KC has pluck of course but I don't know it that and smallball mixed with a soupçon of pine tar is enough.
posted by vapidave at 8:33 AM on October 5, 2014 [1 favorite]


Really making my morning to learn Lorde wrote Royals after seeing this photo. Thanks, MetaFilter!
posted by Corduroy at 8:47 AM on October 5, 2014 [3 favorites]


2) Are you dead inside?

I'm a Cubs fan, so, yes, actually.
posted by eriko at 9:45 AM on October 5, 2014 [4 favorites]


The essence of being a Cub fan is never to die inside, even when common sense tells you it's decades overdue.

also a Cubs fan. \/
posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:03 AM on October 5, 2014


ballplayers are still big, it's the fields that got small.
posted by bruce at 10:10 AM on October 5, 2014


I care not for sports, but +1 just for the snow-covered KC landmarks.
posted by donajo at 10:31 AM on October 5, 2014 [1 favorite]


Grew up in KC, actually went to a World Series game, not in 85 when they won, but previously when they lost it. Have had two, "brush with greatness" encounters with George Brett over the years. Remember the three years we had to face the Yankkes and lost. So it's great to see them finally get it together.
posted by Windopaene at 11:17 AM on October 5, 2014 [2 favorites]


While I am not dead inside and will mostly root for the Royals, part of me wishes well on the Orioles because Dan Duquette is their general manager. That's the guy who, having grown up a Red Sox fan, got fired as their GM and a couple years later got to watch them kill the Curse with some of the players he signed.

That said, I could tell something was going on with KC when they signed James Shields, and I think they just barely missed the playoffs last year. So I'm not entirely surprised they're in it this year, but wow, they're looking good so far.
posted by A dead Quaker at 11:18 AM on October 5, 2014 [1 favorite]


Tigers are done. Go KC!
posted by JoeXIII007 at 4:37 PM on October 5, 2014 [1 favorite]


I wonder how much money you could have won if you'd put down a bet in 2011 on the 2014 ALCS being Orioles vs. Royals.
posted by escabeche at 5:55 PM on October 5, 2014 [3 favorites]


Mariners fan here. Our household will root for the Royals because they beat Oakland in the wild card-tie breaker we should have been in (and no one who even likes the Mariners wants anything good to happen to Oakland). And now I will root for KC even more because Lorde.
posted by lhauser at 8:16 PM on October 5, 2014


The sports fandom bonds we form in childhood are apparently a lifelong thing, whether we actively cultivate them or not.

Holy crap, this is so true. I haven't followed the Royals since at least 2000 and haven't been to a game at the K since 2005 but when they cut to George Brett in the Sky box tonight, I broke down and wept like the little 9-yr old girl I was when last the boys in blue were MLB royalty.

Goddammit, I love baseball.
posted by blessedlyndie at 10:16 PM on October 5, 2014 [6 favorites]


Savor every moment Royals fans, the Indians' World Series runs in 95 and 97 and the ALCS flameout in 2007 (plus assorted playoff appearances between those years) are pretty much all we have to sustain us through the vast wasteland of baseball ineptitude displayed by our Tribe since 1954.
posted by e1c at 9:29 AM on October 6, 2014




DirtyOldTown: 2) Are you dead inside? If no, congratulations, you are rooting for the Royals to win this year!

Well, I'm certainly not rooting for the Cardinals, that's for sure.
posted by tonycpsu at 7:30 AM on October 7, 2014 [1 favorite]


Well, that's just depressing and horrible and makes me feel slightly dirty about my lifetime of Cardinals fandom (because my dad's always been a fan, and also because I adored Ozzie Smith and will always be convinced he was the finest baseball player that has ever been.)
posted by asperity at 9:06 PM on October 7, 2014




Sung Woo Lee is coming back to the US for the first game of the series.
posted by LobsterMitten at 11:47 PM on October 20, 2014 [3 favorites]


CAN YOU GUYS BELIEVE THE ROYALS ARE IN THE WORLD SERIES???
posted by something something at 1:37 PM on October 21, 2014 [4 favorites]


Well. At least it was close.
posted by asperity at 8:32 PM on October 29, 2014


I'm trying not to be madbummed about it.
posted by Cold Lurkey at 8:37 PM on October 29, 2014 [1 favorite]


Bumgarner threw around 4100 pitches this year at age 25. I hope whatever surgery the poor kid ends up getting doesn't make it hard for him to wear all of his rings.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:56 PM on October 29, 2014 [1 favorite]


I wish they would have won but man, was that ever a great month of baseball. It made me love the game again - I'm excited for spring training in a way I haven't been since I was a kid. I don't think this team has gone away, either. We'll get 'em in 2015!
posted by something something at 5:34 AM on October 30, 2014


Seriously, what a ride. Here's a nice article at Fangraphs about why it was reasonable not to send Alex Gordon home on that second-to-last play.
posted by LobsterMitten at 4:37 PM on October 30, 2014 [1 favorite]


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