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The city of Kansas City and the Royals organization has had 30 years to plan a World Series parade. You can bet the party will be epic on Tuesday, when the World Series winners return home for their championship parade. 

The Toronto Blue Jays promoted assistant general manager Tony LaCava to general manager Monday.

It will be a celebration fit for a king Tuesday in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, as the city honors the Kansas City Royals and their World Series victory.

Given how much the fanbase and city as a whole have rallied around the Royals over the past two years, Tuesday's parade will be raucous from start to finish.

The Kansas City Royals won the World Series on Sunday night in the most appropriate possible fashion given how they've played this season, somehow erasing a two-run deficit in the ninth inning before winning Game 5 in the 12th inning, 7-2.

It took three decades, but the Kansas City Royals are once again world champions. The Royals ruined Matt Harvey's brilliant start with a ninth-inning comeback and then scored five runs in the 12th to earn a 7-2 victory and take home the title Sunday night.

From World Series MVP Salvador Perez to nasty closer Wade Davis, MLB's final 2015 postseason All-Star team is stacked with members of the Kansas City Royals.

It's easy enough to understand why so many Royals would make the grade. The idea here is to highlight the top individual performers from the postseason—and the newly minted kings of baseball are loaded with players who fit that description.

They trailed in every game of the World Series. Heck, they trailed in the ninth inning of two of the four games they won (and in the eighth inning of another)!

The Kansas City Royals are amazing (sorry, New York Mets fans). They're also champions after Sunday night's 7-2, 12-inning win in Game 5.

When Game 5 of the 2015 World Series went to the ninth inning, FanGraphs gave the New York Mets almost a 95 percent chance of defeating the Kansas City Royals and cutting their 3-1 series lead to a 3-2 series lead.

Almost exactly 12 months ago, Salvador Perez stepped to the plate in Game 7 of the World Series. It was the bottom of the ninth, there were two outs, the Royals were trailing by one and the tying run stood on third base, 90 feet away.

The Kansas City Royals are about to party like it's 1985.