Kansas City Royals prove that a focused team can be a very powerful weapon
Christian Colon's game-winning hit in the 12th inning of the fifth game of the World Series showed how the Kansas City Royals are a team in the finest sense of the word. Image courtesy of Fox Sports A friend of mine told me the other day that watching sports playoffs is "the best kind of reality TV." I agree. That's why I spent so much time last week watching the World Series,which ended Sunday night (Monday morning in New York) when the Kansas City Royals came from behind to beat the New York Mets 7-2, in the 12th inning. I first started to pay some attention to the Royals when they won a wild card game to get into the playoffs last year, and went on to take the San Francisco Giants to a seventh game in the World Series, before losing it by leaving a tying run on third base. This year, they easily won their division and proved to be merciless opponents in three playoff series against the Houston Astros, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Mets. The Blue Jays caught...