Alex gordon game 3 series#

He did more for me as a Royals fan than I ever had any right to expect. But here is the thing about Alex Gordon: he surpassed every hope for him I could have ever had. I saw Gordon as a chance to rekindle some of those summer feelings from my childhood when being a Royals fan meant expecting to win. And, when my 6-year-old nephew asked me whose jersey he should wear I, of course, told him to get the jersey of this new Alex Gordon kid. Every early memory I have of baseball revolves around Brett.

The first Royals game I ever attended was in 1979. Alex Gordon was hope.įor many of us, Alex was the second coming of George Brett. And it was becoming very difficult to imagine Jimmy Gobble and Denny Bautista ever becoming good enough to round out a starting rotation with Zack Greinke anytime soon. When he was drafted number 2 overall almost 15 years ago it felt like the Royals were beginning to breathe again. And I am confident the same is true for countless Royals fans. I always thought that was a very classy way of moving on from an aging star to whom the fans owed so much.Īlex Gordon will always be a demigod to me. And it seemed as though every time he would say something about coming back Bills fans would just roar “We love you, Andre! Thanks for the years!” even louder. The odd aspect of this was Andre Reed kept insisting he was not retiring. So, Bills fans turned their last home game into a celebration of Thurman Thomas and Andre Reed. In 1999 it became known that Thurman Thomas would no longer be on the Bills once the season ended. Alex Gordon left the game in the eighth inning after an ugly collision with third.

Alex gordon game 3 series#

Jim Kelly quit after the 1996 season and then the writing was on the wall. The Royals lost a baseball game Sunday afternoon, falling 3-2 to the White Sox in a series finale in Chicago.