If you haven't been watching the Major League Baseball Playoffs, something incredible is happening.  The Kansas City Royals, perennial impoverished bottom-dwellers, made the playoffs for the first time since 1984.  They finally built a team that was young and fast with great defense and pitching.  Those are all things that people knew about heading into the playoffs, but they didn't expect this.

The Royals, clear underdogs in every game, have won every game this post-season, leading the Baltimore Orioles in the ALCS 3 games to none.  On top of that, most of the games have gone to extra innings.  The normally demure mid-west fans in Kansas City have exploded in unbridled love of their hometown heroes.  Water fountains throughout the city are being dyed Royal Blue and players are buying rounds of drinks for fans in bars after games.

If you made a movie of this, even the most Disney-friendly audience would laugh it off as ridiculous.  Tonight, it got even crazier.  Late in a one-run game, third baseman Mike Moustakis took it to another level.  The young third baseman who had a rough year hitting only .212 and 15 HRs in 140 regular season games has now amazingly hit 4 HRs in only 7 playoff games.  In a catch that was replayed all night long on every channel, Moose, as he is affectionately known to the fans, approached the third base stands trying to track down a high fly ball.  He approached the fence, then almost magically lept further over the guard rail and into the stands, diving to catch the foul pop-up and somersaulting head-first over the fence.  In a scene right out of one of the Spiderman movies (Tobey Maguire incarnation of course), before he could plummet to the ground, landing on his head and clearly in danger, Moose was caught in mid-air by the esctatic fans before he hit the ground.  They lifted him back up in crowd-surfing fashion as he reached up and showed the ump the ball and they elevated him back onto the field of play.  I really am not even exaggerating this play and it will unquestionably go down in history as one of the most memorable catches in playoff history, if not one of the best.

If you are not watching this...you should, it is incredibly fun!