There will be a game thread for World Series Game 1 later today, but I wanted to post a few notes about this first all-expansion-team World Series between the Kansas City Royals and New York Mets.
Think about that for a moment. This is the 110th World Series. Expansion teams have been around for more than 50 years -- in the Mets' case, this is their 54th season, for the Royals, their 47th. Expansion teams have played in 21 World Series and won eight of them. Seems as if this sort of matchup would have happened by now.