Jonny Gomes played in just 12 games as a member of the Kansas City Royals.
He spent 83 other games in an Atlanta Braves uniform this season before being traded.
But if you heard his epic speech to the thousands of Royals fans gathered for Wednesday's World Series celebration in Kansas City, Mo., you'd imagine he'd been there since the dawn of time.
Gomes, using a U.S flag as a prop to make his point, asked for a moment of silence in memory of Mike Moustakas’ mother, Chris Young’s father and Ednison Volquez’s father, who all died within the last four months.
Then came this epic progression of they's and we's from Gomes:
"It's unbelievable what those boys did."
"It's unbelievable what they did! It's unbelievable what they did!"
"They stole bases, they hit homers."
"Hey guess what, Cy Young winner, not on our team, beat him."
"Rookie of the year, not on our team, we beat him."
"MVP of the whole league," turning to the teammates behind him, "sorry guys, not on our team. But we beat that guy, too! You know why we beat them. Because all of y'all people had our backs."
(Nice to hear that after four months in the South he embraced y'all.)
He made a non-politically correct statement and flipped the microphone like Jose Bautista hitting a game-winning three-run homer.
Jonny Gomes, well played. Well played.
