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Originally Posted by wazu
I think both are very different. The Royals were on a short timeline and we knew that. In 2014 I guess I felt different than you. I was crushed by the loss. I still had hope for next year, but I know how difficult it is to get back and so it really destroyed a lot of the joy of everything else that happened. Then when they came out in 2015 and dominated it was so special. As Rany put it the 2015 Royals "turned the 2014 Royals into a prologue."
But with Chiefs I know they'll be around for awhile. And winning last year takes some pressure off of any one year. I'm way less down about this loss than I was about the Royals in 2014. We have Superman playing for our team, and the future is bright. Not just this next season, but for 10-15 years.
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I also think the economics of the sport played into that. There have been small market teams make it to the World Series, even the Rays last year... but it's hard. There are teams with a lot of money and power to try and overcome, and just less playoff teams in general so it's not easy. No small market team has really done what the Royals did... make it to 2 straight World Series like that. And the only reason they lost the first one was an all-time pitching performance.