by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

LOS ANGELES–It is hard to believe that the Los Angeles Kings won in that seventh game on Sunday night in Chicago. The San Jose Sharks who had the Kings on the ropes in round one and lost in four don’t want to hear that. I hate to say this because I live in the Bay Area although I work in L.A. but there is something to be said about this but it looks like the stars are aligned for the Kings.

The Kings might go all the way, they have won against all odds and they were on the verge of elimination by the Sharks and here they are and now their going to the Stanley Cup Finals. The Kings won last in 2012 for the Stanley Cup and they might win it again as they start game one here in L.A. on Wednesday night.

Everything is happening for the Kings, this is what makes sports fascinating, here’s a team that was on the precipice to being eliminated three weeks ago by the Sharks now their going to the big dance. So this might be another L.A.Kings year in 2014. The Kings have more lives than a cat they were almost killed off in each of the three rounds against the Sharks, Ducks, Blackhawks and lived to play in the finals.

Imagine that your on the Kings right now they feel like they can beat anybody right now, bring on the Russian team, bring on the Olympic team, they don’t care, but hopefully they don’t take it to the point of complacency. The Kings right now are the team that feels like if they show up and their going to win.

California Chrome ready for Belmont Preakness: The name California Chrome sounds like a old Chevy Impala and it’s such a great name and I’m not a horse aficionado but I read a lot about it. Now that they’re allowing CA Chrome to wear the breathing strip on the bridge of his nose he looks like he might be the first Triple Crown winner since 1978 this Saturday.

There are 40 million people who will either be tuned in on radio or watching this race on Saturday, it will be a widely watched event one of the biggest horse races in recent history. With a name like California Chrome how can you go wrong with a name like that.

When I first heard about CA Chrome’s breathing device you couldn’t help but think do horses go to sleep with that on strip on like humans? I never heard of such a thing but this is the ultimate betting sport and a lot of people’s money is riding on Saturday’s Belmont race and are betting on CA Chrome to win.

By the way I met the jockey for CA Chrome his name is Victor Espinoza and he threw out the first ball at Angels Stadium in Anaheim about a couple weeks ago right after he won the second race. Espinoza is a little guy who is going to be inducted into the Horse Jockey Hall of Fame.

So CA Chrome has a great jockey and a great horse and he has a good chance to win it and it looks like he’s the favorite and should win it barring any surprises for the Triple Crown for California Chrome.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish TV voice for Angels baseball and does News and Commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com