Welcome, Mets and Cubs fans, to the league championship series to which no one outside Kansas City and Canada has been paying attention.
I mean, really, was anyone shocked that the Cubs lost in the NLCS and failed to reach the World Series?
If your focus was on that four-game sweep, here are some things to know before Friday night’s Game 6 of the ALCS between the Royals and the Blue Jays:
You will not see frequent camera shots of Jerry Seinfeld, Eddie Vedder or Bill Murray in the stands. There will be a few stars on hand in Kansas City (well, Paul Rudd and that guy from “Modern Family”) but this series isn’t about celebs or curses or billy goats that have been dead for six decades. It’s about baseball. And the real stars are the ones on the field — like Josh Donaldson, Troy Tulowitzki, Lorenzo Cain and Eric Hosmer — and not the ones in the stands (though don’t be surprised if the Royals win and Rudd leads an army of ants onto the field in celebration).