Royals Lose 1-0 in Finale

Pitching was good, the hitting was not.  What a season.  I will just leave everyone with this:

Talking about baseball, Giamatti wrote:

"It will break your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.  You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops."