Around three in the afternoon on Monday, I was worried that this would be the first edition of Friday Notes of the off-season. Thankfully, the Royals rallied to win that game and then obviously won the fifth game of the series and now are preparing to play the Blue Jays in the American League Championship Series. I wasn’t so sure the Royals would ever get to the ALCS again before last year and now they’ve done it two seasons in a row, which is really quite amazing. It’s not a bad time to be a Royals fan, I suppose.