Two facts:
2014 Royals World Series run prompts Kansas City baby boomlet
Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. Things didn’t go quite as planned.
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- The 2014 World Series, in which the Kansas City Royals played, was nine months ago.
- There are a whole lot of new babies in Kansas City!
#Royals baby boom? Nine months after #WorldSeries2014, fans welcome little souvenirs: http://t.co/bUCG61UreC pic.twitter.com/nJvHq5VLB2
— The Kansas City Star (@KCStar) August 14, 2015 Per the Kansas City Star:
It’s too soon to tell whether the excitement surrounding the Royals’ historic postseason run resulted in a local baby boom. Kansas and Missouri birth numbers for July 2015 — the month most 2014 World Series babies were born — won’t be final until next year. North Kansas City Hospital and St. Luke’s hospitals haven’t seen an increase in births.But in July, Shawnee Mission Birth Center, which delivered more babies last year than any other hospital in the metro area, logged 473 births, breaking the old record of 456 births in a single month.
Sometimes, Annie, a man and a woman love each other very much, and also they love America’s pastime, you see, and those boys were playing their hearts out and they were good, they were fantastic, and gosh, Lo Cain could really run, he really could, and Hosmer was blowing up and Holland wouldn’t give nothing to nobody, and here it was, Annie, our first chance since ‘85, you can’t imagine, and we were winning ‘em all, and we were looking into each other’s eyes each night and thinking about that parade, and winning some more, as many games as it’s possible to, actually, and still, you know, and how did Panik even make that flip, and...
(via MLB, which yearns always for new baseball fans)
