Royals Clinch AL Central Division

It is 11:43 PM CST and the night is still young in the Kansas City Metro. The Kansas City Royals just clinched the American League Central Division for the first time ever, and their first divisional win since 1985. The 1985 MLB Post Season started off for the Royals when they won the American League West Division and later went on to beat the Toronto Blue Jays in the League Championship Series. That post season ended with the Royals edging out the St. Louis Cardinals four games to three, in a I-70 Series World Series.

As I sat there watching the game in my apartment my emotions were building as Fox Sports Midwest's coverage switched to a live feed of Royals employees covering the clubhouse locker room with plastic and wheeling in carts of champagne and beer. That eight second clip triggered nostalgia from the 2014 Postseason when the underdog, Royals, swept the American League Divisional Series, and American League Championship Series leading to a heart-breaking World Series loss to the Giants.

Coming off of the 2014 Postseason MLB announcers, analysts, and sports anchors projected that the Royals would finish fourth in the AL Central, with many of them admitting that they thought the Royals making it to the World Series was a fluke. It is clear to see that the 2014 Royals Postseason run was not a fluke due to the fact that the Royals were the first team in the MLB to win their division. Now that the division race is over the Royals need to keep winning so they can get home field advantage in the Postseason and bring the Fall Classic back to Kauffman Stadium which only comes with one downside, Joe Buck.