It’s been more than seven and a half years since one of the greatest sporting events of your life: the 2014 World Series, in which the San Francisco Giants beat the Kansas City Royals in seven games to win their third title in five seasons.
The Giants fell off shortly after that series, and are just now recovering and reestablishing themselves as one of baseball’s best teams. The Royal’s bounced back and won the World Series the next year, but haven’t had a winning season since.
They’ve faced each other since then, but because I have no other narratives for an interleague series against a bad and boring team, I’m just going to pretend that this is a highly-anticipated rematch.