Second Thoughts

Royals fan takes seat for 1,000th time

Every summer, baseball teams host 81 home games. And while fans would love to make it to every one of them, things come up: family vacations, bosses asking you to work late, waiting in line for midnight movie tickets. Maybe you even didn't feel like putting on pants.

But for Royals fan Chris Coats from Raytown, Mo., none of those are excuses. When the Royals beat the Tigers 10-3 on Friday, it was Coats' 1,000th consecutive home game. Since starting the streak May 25, 2004 -- including playoff games -- Coats has been there. He didn't even let a brain tumor stop him.

"I just love Royals baseball," Coats said. "I love coming out to Kauffman Stadium. Just the atmosphere, coming out to watch a ballgame -- no matter how good or bad they play, it was always fun to watch."

Coats certainly has seen plenty of losing baseball teams. When he started in 2004, the Royals kicked off a streak of three consecutive 100-plus loss seasons.

But Coats, who makes sure to request off work when the Royals play weekday matinees, stuck with the team, and it's all paid off. The cape-wearing superfan said the team had come "full circle."

"To go from 100 games of losing a year to winning it all, " he said, "it was just incredible."

Sky high

There may be some high drama for tonight's NBA Finals, but there definitely are high prices if you want to see the game in person.

Like Super Bowl high.

Tickets for tonight's Game 7 were averaging $2,153 on SeatGeek and $1,943 on TiqIQ, FOXBusiness.com reported, a record high for Finals tickets. Tickets on StubHub ranged from $830 for standing-room-only to a pair of $49,500 courtside seats which, a spokesman told ESPN, were the most expensive nonsuite tickets the site has ever sold.

By comparison, SeatGeek's Chris Leyden told FOXBusiness.com that the cheapest Super Bowl ticket price they've recorded was $2,479 for the 2013 game between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers.

Meanwhile, tickets to the Cavs' watch party at Quicken Loans Arena, which went on sale Friday morning for $5 each, skyrocketed on the resale market into the hundreds of dollars.

I'll drink to that

Appleton, Wis. -- home of the Timber Rattlers baseball team, a Class A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers -- has been named "drunkest city in America" by the website 24/7 Wall Street.

Wrote RJ Currie from sportsdeke.com: "And folks worry about bats being corked?"

Baby weight

Running back Karlos Williams showed up overweight for the Buffalo Bills' offseason workouts, saying he packed on some sympathy pounds because of his wife's pregnancy.

Wrote Dwight Perry of The Seattle Times: "But Karlos, to his credit, vows to be in game shape by the season's first trimester."

Sports on 06/19/2016

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