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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Cheap Titans Jerseys China . -- Mathematically, the Kansas City Royals remain alive in the American League wild-card standings.Practically, the odds are next to impossible the Royals will make it back to postseason for the third consecutive year and get to defend their World Series championship. One could get better odds that the Cleveland Browns will win the Super Bowl this season.The Royals beat the Minnesota Twins 4-3 in 11 innings Tuesday to remain on life support. With five games left, they are five games behind the Baltimore Orioles, who lost Tuesday at Toronto, for the second wild-card spot. One Orioles victory or one Royals loss would eliminate Kansas City.However, if the Royals can win two of their remaining five games, they would finish above .500 for the fourth consecutive year. That is a more reasonable and achievable goal.Its very, very important, Royals manager Ned Yost said. I mean, its important to us. Um, if it wasnt important, wed just pack our bags and go home right now.So, weve got a group of guys in there that play hard. They play hard until the last outs made and they play hard every single day. And they play to win. Everything thats happened, with all the injuries and everything thats happened this year, for us to have a winning records going to be good for us.The Twins and Royals will meet again Wednesday night in the middle game of this three-game series. The Twins have lost 14 of 17 to the Royals this year, including all eight games at Kauffman Stadium. The Twins have never gone winless in Kansas City during a season since the Royals franchise was birthed in 1969.Left-hander Jason Vargas will start Wednesday for the Royals. This will be the third start of the year for Vargas, who had Tommy John surgery in August 2015 and spent most of this year rehabilitating. He made six minor league rehab starts, going 0-2 with a 5.85 ERA and 27 strikeouts in 20 innings, before making his first big league appearance.In his past start, Vargas gave up a solo home run to Jason Kipnis and a run-producing double to Carlos Santana in the first inning at Cleveland, but he retired the final 10 batters he faced. He left after 70 pitches and four innings with a no-decision. He will be on a pitch count Wednesday, probably around 85.Vargas is 6-4 with a 3.96 ERA in 16 career outings against the Twins. He is 4-1 with a 2.53 ERA in seven starts with the Royals against the Twins.The Twins will counter with veteran right-hander Ervin Santana, who pitched for the Royals in 2013.Santana will be making his fifth start of the season against Kansas City and the 21st of his career. He is 5-9 with a 4.65 ERA against the Royals, allowing 66 earned runs in 127 2/3 innings while striking out 104 and walking 45.Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer is 7-for-21 with two home runs and nine RBI against Santana. Alex Gordon is just 8-for-38 (.211) off Santana, but two of the hits were home runs. Kendrys Morales is 4-for-17 with one home run against Santana.While rookie right-hander Jose Berrios failed to make it through five innings Tuesday against the Royals, Twins manager Paul Molitor hinted he would start the season finale Sunday at the Chicago White Sox. He said he would discuss it with the 22-year-old Berrios and see how he is feeling after the long season.Berrios wants the ball.I felt confident, he said of his start against the Royals. I think the work that I put into the bullpens getting to the start have been put into the start and have helped a lot.I feel 100 percent. I want to go out there and pitch. I feel like thats what every athlete wants is to win a game. Thats what they pride themselves on. So, yeah, if thats what they want, thats what Ill do. Cheap Titans Jerseys Authentic .Y. -- Buffalo Bills coach Doug Marrone has drawn on his Syracuse connections once again by hiring Rob Moore to take over as receivers coach. Wholesale Titans Jerseys http://www.cheaptitansjerseyselite.com/ ;. The International Olympic Committee released the official list of bid cities on Friday after the deadline for applications had passed. The candidates -- all previously announced in their own countries -- are: Almaty, Kazakhstan; Beijing; Krakow, Poland; Lviv, Ukraine; Oslo, Norway; and Stockholm. LATROBE, Pa. -- Antonio Brown is shaking off Brandon Marshalls challenge like a cornerback.After Marshall bet a new Porsche that hell have more yards than Brown in 2016, the NFLs reception king said the 32-year-old Marshall must need some PR.He too old to be doing that, Brown, 28, told TMZ Sports.Standing in front of a white Porsche -- the new sponsor of the New York Jets -- Marshall said on an Instagram video hell give up the car if Brown outdistances him in receiving yards, but if I have more receiving yards than you, youve got to give me the Rolls-Royce. Brown is scheduled to drive a Steelers-inspired Rolls-Royce Wraith into training camp Thursday.Marshall recorded 1,502 yards last season, which was 332 short of Browns 1,834.The RR (Rolls-Royce) is about $100K up (from the Porsche value), Brown told TMZ. If he really serious, call me ... Ill gladly accept. Dont Internet it.Perhaps Marshall should have used scoring as the criterion. Last season, Marshall caught a career-high 14 touchdown passes, four more than Brown.I just love competing. I love competition, Marshall said Thursday while speaking to reporters at the Jets training camp in Florham Park, NNew Jersey. Cheap Titans Jerseys. . There are games within the game, if you follow me. There are a few guys in the league that really take pride in their work; its their lifes work and they want to push. You always want to advance the position. You always want to advance what the guy did the year before or the generation before -- and hes doing that.?The Steelers veteran is widely considered the leagues best pass-catcher after recording 265 receptions from 2014-15, an NFL record during a two-year stretch. Most reasonable fans would select Brown to win this bet.Overall, this seems like friendly banter, but it deepens the intrigue in league-wide receiver hierarchy for 2016.Its just competition, its fun, but its personal and its real, ?Marshall said.Marshall declined to say if he actually owns a Porsche.Jets teammate Eric Decker stayed out of the back-and-forth between Marshall and Brown.Thats a lot of money to be throwing around, a Porsche and a Rolls-Royce, Decker said, laughing.Information from ESPNs Rich Cimini was used in this report. ' ' '