The American League Championship series begins tonight when the Kansas City Royals travel to Baltimore and face off against the Orioles in a seven game series. There's a lot riding in this series because the last time the Orioles won a World Series title was back in 1983 and for the Royals it was in 1985. Both fan bases have suffered year after year, disappointment after disappointment and this year the Orioles or Royals can finally end the long drought.
The Kansas City Royals and Baltimore Orioles have gone a combined 60 years since their last World Series title still far less years than the disappointing Chicago Cubs but that's a different topic for a different time. Many people didn't give any of these teams a chance of making it to the playoffs let alone the World Series so that gives each team more motivation to win the ALCS. As much as Royal and Oriole fans are ecstatic to see their team on the verge of going on to the World Series it's sad to think that one fan base will be heart broken at the end of the series. Yes Royal fans and Oriole fans are used to their team mathematically being out of the playoffs in early June, July, or August but losing in October is much more painful. This would be like the Chicago Cubs in 2003 when they were outs away from advancing to the World Series after almost a century of misery, losing year after year and not having much to cheer about. Chicago Cubs fans were devastated myself included, the pain lasted for months even years after that thinking back that we were so close. Of course the infamous Bartman had a thing to do with it and we keep blaming him for the dismantle of game 6. Let's just hope we don't have another Bartman in the Orioles vs Royals series.
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