Power Ball Winner Picked the Numbers of Favorite Royals Hall of Famers, So Can He Buy The Team Now? [UPDATE: Numbers Random: "Although We Love the Royals"]

One of the two Power Ball winners is from Dearborn, Missouri, about 30 minutes North of the Kansas City Metro area. The winning numbers? 5 (George Brett), 16 (Bo Jackson), 22 (Dennis Leonard), 23 (Mark Gubicza), 29 (Dan Quisenberry), and the power ball of 6 (Willie Wilson). Jeff Passan and Andrew Dewitt state that this connection is more than just coincidence, and the numbers were played by a Royals fan.

All of those players except for Bo Jackson are in the Royals Hall of Fame, and Bo should be in based on his legendary feats from the throw at the warning track in Seattle to the All Star Game leadoff home run. I don’t get how you go Gubicza over Saberhagen, but it’s a good thing he did.

So, that half of the $580 million? Can we interest you in buying the Royals and getting them away from David Glass, Mr. and Mrs. Power Ball winner? Well, David Glass did buy the team for $96 million, but after crying poor since he took over and never fielding a competitive team, the team is now worth an estimated $354 million. One can dream, though, of fanciful thoughts about 81 win seasons.

[UPDATE: Was it an auto picked ticket and a coincidence or not? Jeff Passan is now saying that he is hearing from people in the Royals organization that was the case after digging.

According to Cindy Hill, the wife of the winner, the numbers were random, though "we love the Royals", and Mark Hill would have gone Fred Patek, Frank White, George Brett and Amos Otis.

Kind of depressing to hear the numbers were picked in the same fashion that the Royals make all of their decisions.]

[photo via US Presswire]

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19 Responses to “Power Ball Winner Picked the Numbers of Favorite Royals Hall of Famers, So Can He Buy The Team Now? [UPDATE: Numbers Random: "Although We Love the Royals"]”

PeerLessPrices Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 9:29 AM

Awesome. Great caption, however you might as well include another pic of her. No one would complain

KC Resident Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 9:32 AM

Fuck the Glass family. They are worse than the Hunts. A bunch of fucking out of town owners profiting on the cluelessness of the poor, mentally deficient fans of the Royals and Chiefs.

Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 9:44 AM

This is pretty sweet.

golfercraig Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 9:52 AM

Sweet. Too bad it’s not true. They were computer generated numbers. You know, like it says in only every news story about it. I expect this type of fact checking from Duffy, not you Lisk.

/immutable Rose Bowl
//fake mental health

Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 10:01 AM

Too bad it’s not true.

/tears up 9,9,9,45,45 Powerball ticket

cleet Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 10:01 AM

Not a fan of Teigen.

/has nothing else to add

golfercraig Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 10:03 AM

Well, seems it may not be Powerball people claiming they were computer generated, just “official sources.” No word on official with who.

golfercraig Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 10:25 AM

Or maybe he was a Cardinal fan

5 – Albert Pujols
16 – Ray Lankford
22 – Jack Clark
23 – Ted Simmons
29- Chris Carpenter
6 – Best living player

Jason Lisk Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 10:34 AM

Sweet. Too bad it’s not true. They were computer generated numbers. You know, like it says in only every news story about it. I expect this type of fact checking from Duffy, not you Lisk.

Dude, I ran searches, local news ran a story saying the same thing on last night’s news, plenty of sports writers said it, including a local one who claimed to have knowledge of the family (linked above), and Passan, who used to cover the Royals. I linked it. I wrote this last night after the Falcons game, and am just now sitting back to CPU after dealing with my morning kid craziness to school. We scheduled it to run this am. If it was computer generated, I will add an update. But it wasn’t because I just went with one tweet and posted it in 5 minutes and didn’t check it before I wrote it.

KC Resident Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 10:36 AM

I’ve heard both ways. Either way, incredibly odd.

roastbeast Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 10:43 AM

But it wasn’t because I just went with one tweet and posted it in 5 minutes and didn’t check it before I wrote it.

you mean people do this?

people you know? (but not work with)

Jason Lisk Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 10:49 AM

I’ve heard both ways. Either way, incredibly odd.

I’m trying to find something else to add a link.

phillymantis915 Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 10:53 AM

5 (George Brett), 16 (Bo Jackson), 22 (Dennis Leonard), 23 (Mark Gubicza), 29 (Dan Quisenberry), and the power ball of 6 (Willie Wilson).

It would be fun trying to do this for other teams as well

KC Resident Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 10:56 AM

I’ve heard both ways. Either way, incredibly odd.

I’m trying to find something else to add a link.

I mean whether or not he picked the numbers of Royals HOFs or the computer generated numbers just ended up being Royals HOFs. Bizarre. Fun with numbers to the extreme. And so forth.

scripty Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 10:57 AM

My Indians picks of Alex Cole, Joe Charboneau, Ron Hassey, Eddie Taubenesse, Felix Fermin, and (powerball) Miguel Dilone did not come through for me.
/sad

spencer096 Says:
November 30th, 2012 at 11:03 AM