The city of Kansas City and the Royals organization has had 30 years to plan a World Series parade. You can bet the party will be epic on Tuesday, when the World Series winners return home for their championship parade.
The city announced that the parade will commence at noon CT, with the victory rally at 2 p.m., and will be covered on local television via Fox 4 and Fox Sports Kansas City. The city will also offer free shuttles and bus service to the downtown area.
KMBC.com will also carry a live stream of the proceedings, per Len Jennings of KMBCKansas City.
Jeff Rosen of the Kansas City Star shared the route the team will take, meanwhile:
If the turnout for the parade is anything like the World Series ratings in the Kansas City area during the World Series, well, the downtown area will be bumping on Tuesday. Pete Grathoff of the Kansas City Star passed along those numbers:
Of course, the Royals themselves already started the party. Manager Ned Yost had the following to say after the game on early Monday morning:
Yost wasn’t done there, however:
It was probably the best cheeseburger he’s ever had.
And it was one of the more special teams the city of Kansas City has ever had, too. Even George Brett—who led the way for the Royals’ last championship in 1985—would tell you that.
“They’d beat us,” he told Sam Mellinger of the Kansas City Star on early Monday morning when asked if the 2015 squad was better than his 1985 version. “They’re better than we were.”
You’d be hard-pressed to find too many people in Kansas City who would contradict anything from the mouth of a legend like Brett.
And it’s hard to find a reason why anyone else would contradict him in this case. The core of this team was one magical Madison Bumgarner performance in last year’s postseason away from being back-to-back world champions. They orchestrated one epic comeback after another in October, generated runs with a tenacious yet disciplined approach at the plate and smart baserunning, locked down games with one of the league’s finest bullpens and got enough from their starting pitching staff to stay close into the later innings.
They carried themselves with a swagger not born of arrogance, but rather of an unwavering belief that they could, and would, win any game, no matter the circumstances or deficit. Eight comeback wins and a World Series title later, the Royals earned the right to swagger through downtown Kansas City.
And you can bet an entire city can’t wait to toast them as they do. Enjoy the party, Kansas City—after 30 years of dreaming about this celebration, your wait is finally over.
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