Here’s your Royals-related schedule for the next few days

Baseball’s regular season is over, and for the first time in 29 years, the Kansas City Royals have another game scheduled. The Royals are playing a postseason game — at home! — tomorrow night. Is it pathetic how tremendously excited we all are about this? Yes. But that does not change the fact that it is indeed very exciting! 

In case you didn’t get enough of your jollies out on Friday night when the Royals clinched the playoff berth, you may be interested in the rally that the team has planned for this afternoon — the “Take the Crown Rally,” they’re calling it. 

The rally, which is free and open to the public, starts at 11:30 a.m. at Kauffman Stadium. Ryan Lefebvre will be interviewing GM Dayton Moore, manager Ned Yost and several to-be-determined Royals players and alumni. You can also stick around to watch batting practice afterward. Schedule:

10:45 a.m. Kauffman Stadium Gates Open
11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Interviews and Q&A
12:15-1:30 p.m. Royals Batting Practice

More here. 

Royals fans have to clear out of the Truman Sports Complex today at 1:30 p.m. Gates will then reopen at 3 p.m. to allow Chiefs fans to start getting blind drunk prior to the 7:30 p.m. Monday Night Football game against the New England Patriots. 

On Tuesday, the gates open at 5 p.m. for the Royals’ wild-card game against the Oakland Athletics. First pitch is at 7:07 p.m.; Royals starter James Shields is scheduled to go up against the A’s Jon Lester. If you’re not lucky enough to have tickets, the game will be televised on TBS. 

If the Royals win, they’ll advance to play a best-of-five-game series against the Los Angeles Angels, starting on Thursday. If they lose, that’s the end of the road. In some ways, though, it feels like we already won the pennant, doesn’t it?