How to Pick A World Series Winner ...

... in five years.

So you might remember that in Sports Illustrated in 2011, I wrote as if the Kansas City Royals had already won the World Series in 2015. I'm going to get as much mileage as I can out of that.

Then, this week, SI unveiled the new World Series cover, and it's great, but the subhead is: "How the resilient Royals ran off with with a World S…