NEW YORK
The euphoria of a championship years in the making and once so fundamentally unrealistic filled an otherwise quiet stadium. The only noise was from the men who earned this moment, and the fans who waited so long to feel it. The Royals are World Series champions. Is this real?
For years and years — decades, really — this was the kind of thing you could only see in your dreams, and even then, you would wake up and realize how silly that was. The Royals, for so long the picture of failure, are baseball’s champion.