Ask the Tigers
after getting swept by Baltimore, and the Orioles likely were a team of
destiny. With the O’s now one game away
from being swept by the Royals, who have already swept the Angels, and KC is
next in line as a team of destiny, or “Yostiny,” as manager Ned Yost’s crew has
been called by some sportswriters. But however
they say “destiny,” I say “lightning in a bottle.”
Either one would
describe the 2005 White Sox, after sweeping the defending world champion Red
Sox in the ALDS and losing all of one game to the Angels in the ALCS before
sweeping the Astros in the World Series.
Then general manager Kenny Williams had to go and take the cap off the
bottle by trading away Aaron Rowand….We haven’t been close to the Series since.
If the Royals
make it, I’ll be pulling for them; I have a pizza on it. But Royals fans, beware. Each season has its own logic, its own rules
and winners and losers. Come April 2015,
this year’s destiny could very well go the way of last summer’s lightning.
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