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or, if they win today, on Monday. As nauseating as even the thought is, the legacy of the great Orioles teams of 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1973 are at stake. Those teams won 10 straight LCS games (three three game sweeps 1969-1971, game one 1973), which remains the LCS record. After last night, the Royals franchise has won eight straight. The Royals, to our regret, swept us out of the ALCS last season. They can't add insult to injury by taking away our record!

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Not a chance. I hate both teams and won't watch the ALCS. The Orioles were mostly the same roster during that run. What K.C. is doing is not comparable given that 3 games of the Royals "streak" was from a 1985 team all of whom are retired for 20+ years. Interesting that the 1985 team was down 2-0, and 3-1 to.......

Toronto.

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I feel dirty saying this but I gotta root for the Royals this series. Bautista is such a punk and anything in comparison to his hissy fits and inflated ego looks pleasant...even the Royals. It's a shame because I really like some Jays players like Price, Dickey, Kawasaki...more than I can say for the Royals, I don't like any of them but I don't dislike any of them like Bautista. He is up there with Ortiz and Papelbon for me.

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Not a chance. I hate both teams and won't watch the ALCS. The Orioles were mostly the same roster during that run. What K.C. is doing is not comparable given that 3 games of the Royals "streak" was from a 1985 team all of whom are retired for 20+ years. Interesting that the 1985 team was down 2-0, and 3-1 to.......

Toronto.

Hannah caught a double header in fall ball today.

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Baseball's record keepers won't care about the different circumstances.

It's only for one game. Then, back to normal.

One game in a best-of-seven playoff series is huge.

Fans root for whoever they like more and/or whoever they dislike less ...... and they sure as hell are not going to change that based on a record that nobody cares about.

If somebody wants the Royals to win (and/or the Blue Jays to lose), they would rather have the Royals head to Toronto up 2 games to 0, instead of tied at 1 game apiece.

Your "It's only for one game, then it's back to normal" proclamation makes it sound as though the Royals are capable of simply giving a game away, and then winning whenever they want to at will ...... or that fans that have a rooting interest in this series don't really care about the team that they are rooting for being even at 1 game apiece instead of being up 2 games to 0.

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