The best lineup since sliced bread

Christian Colon does the heavy lifting as we dream of a world where the Kansas City Royals are sandwiches. (Photo and photo illustration: Cole Blaise | Flatland)

You know you’ve made it in a town when a restaurant names a dish after you. Sports radio host Mike Zarrick has the Z-man at Joe’s Kansas City, and sportswriter Joe Posnanski has chicken spiedini at Governor Stumpy’s. Murray’s Ice Cream & Cookies paid homage a few years ago to the late Walt Bodine with…

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You ain’t seen nothing yet

Royals Parade

If you were there, this is what your heart felt like. If you watched from afar, this is what your heart felt like. KCPT Producer Cole Blaise walked the Kansas City Royals #RoyalCelebration route, and yes, this is what his heart felt like. Watch the video and let us @FlatlandKC know what you think. Are you feeling it?…

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Love, Reign O’er Me

Kansas City Royals' Johnny Cueto celebrates after Game 5 of the Major League Baseball World Series on Monday. The Royals won 7-2 to win the series. (Photo: David J. Phillip | AP)

Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. ― Virgil, Eclogues X Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love. The Royals are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I’ve been to the Louvre, seen a sunrise over the Grand Canyon, and witnessed things involving Angie Everhart and a bedsheet that…

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We are Royal. Bring on the confetti.

Kansas City is ready to party. The Royals are the 2015 World Champions, and it seems like the entire town has shut down to celebrate what might be this generation’s World Series parade. There will be Royals. There will be fans. There will be a 2.3 mile parade route that stretches from the Sprint Center…

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