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Before the ceremony in which the banner celebrating the Kansas City Royals' 2015 World Series victory was raised, Mike Moustakas and Eric Hosmer sat next to one another on the bench and peered out toward the reaches of Kauffman Stadium. It was perfect: the virgin grass of opening night a resplendent green, the fans packing every seat and then some, Mother Nature cooperating with an unseasonable 74 degrees. And Moustakas turned to Hosmer and asked a sincere question: “Did you ever think this would happen?