Why You Should Never Bet on the Kansas City Royals

Remember last week when the Cleveland Indians beat the Kansas City Royals on a walk-off single by Shin-Soo Choo when Royals centerfielder Coco Crisp lost the ball amidst a flock of seagulls (video here)? No, Coco didn't have headphones on and he was not singing along to "I Ran" when this occurred.

There was literally a flock of seagulls in the Progressive Field outfield, no doubt there searching for all of those bugs that still haunt Joba Chamberlain's dreams. Well if you are a Royals player or fan you were probably pretty upset to be losing a game because of avian invasion, but you'll just have to trust me when I say that it could have been a lot worse.

I mean, it's not like you had $21,570 riding on it or anything.

[Aaron] Smith had a ridiculous $21,750 bet on the Royals through two different casinos. He stood to win nearly $38,000, which he said he planned to use to pay off his house or, perhaps, "just have a hell of a time at a casino with some cocktail waitresses."

Now, time for a weak disclaimer: I don't know Aaron. Wasn't there in Vegas when, he says, his stepson's business partner placed these bets. But I did ask that he fax us his betting slips as proof, which he did. The image above is his ticket from the larger of the two slips he faxed.

Smith's logic was that Zack Greinke was on the mound for Kansas City, and coming off of two straight losses there was no way in the world he could lose three in a row. Especially when he was going against Jeremy Sowers.

He was wrong.

Now it may suck pretty hard to lose that kind of money under these circumstances, but I don't feel sorry for Smith in the slightest. I'm not a huge gambler on sports in general, let alone baseball, but if you're putting that much money on the line on a freaking Royals-Indians game in June, you deserve what you get.

What, there were no WNBA games to bet on that night?