Remember that feeling after the Kansas City Royals had won the 2014 Wild Card game?
For those of us lucky enough to physically be there at Kauffman Stadium that night, it was a release of 29 years’ of tension, an exhausted cacophony of sounds coming from frayed throats that had endured almost five hours of a nail-biting thriller of a game. Those watching at home experienced similar emotions, though perhaps without the raw energy with which the stadium buzzed. The 2014 Wild Card Game was a transcendental moment for a huge segment of Royals fans who had only experienced heartbreak after heartbreak.