It almost didn’t happen, of course. This is easy to overlook now. Forget Eric Hosmer’s dash home in New York. Forget Wade Davis standing firm against Toronto. Forget the miracle at Minute Maid Park.
Forget the World Series championship, and the victory parade two days later, and every memory from the last two years — the greatest 24-month run of baseball in Kansas City. Forget it all, because it was all one conversation away from not happening. Dayton Moore can admit that now.
He will tell you that maybe he didn’t believe. Not fully, anyway. He needed one phone call.