by Michael Duca

SAN FRANCISCO–This is an interesting post season no favorite has won yet and it’s good news for Giants fans all 50 states in the union seemed to believe the Royals have this World Series won. Here’s my breakdown of this World Series number one it’s the first World Series in history that features two teams that didn’t win 90 games during the season.

Number two, the two teams competing against each other against each other have the best playoff record in the history of baseball. Combined they have won 16 of 18 games, combined they have played 89 ball games in the post season, somethings got to give. When I try to figure out what it is what is going to give, it’s my belief you can get this far without really realizing where you are.

A regular season game in Kansas City is not that massive of a media event, but the World Series is another thing entirely. When you wake up on Monday morning and you go down to media day and there’s 3,000 credentials for the media at Kaufman Stadium and you have your own table in your own name and you have 400 reporters sitting there asking you questions that your working with.

Everybody is going to have something to say and when you go away from that as a journalist you think to yourself regarding covering such an event you say “oh my God it’s real.” One team has done it twice and one team has watched it on TV several times and this is where experience begins to pay. With the San Francisco Giants this is the third time the club has made the World Series in five years.

For me being an ordinary working stiff this is the fourth World Series they’ve been involved in for me to cover as a journalist and the sixth overall that I’ve attended. I actually tallied it up and I have a chance to hit 20 World Series games this year as a lifetime total. I’m very fortunate to have that opportunity and this one is going to be fun.

Nobody expected the Royals to be here, their a good organization and nice people that I’ve worked with most of them in spring trainning every year. So it will be fun to renew aquaintances when shall we say when they were kittens and they have grown up and these cats have big paws.

I also have to tell you about how the fans of the Royals celebrate here, a friend of mine is in KC and after the four game sweep over the Baltimore Orioles he sent me a 20 second video and he said “pray for me there’s rioting in the streets of Kansas City” and I ran the video and in 20 minutes as I watched four sets of fans calmly walking by out of the stadium with each other. Nobody wearing foam fingers, nobody screaming or yelling “Royals rule” nobody yelling “bring it on” they were just very quietly soaking in the scene. Just wait until the Royals fans get to San Francisco and get aload of the San Francisco fans.

Michael Duca is covering the 2014 World Series for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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