The last few weeks have been very hard for Matt Anderson.

“It’s just been a wild ride, I hated to see it end so soon,” Anderson said. “I really felt like I was living life to the fullest.”

Anderson, a junior finance major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, got swept up by baseball fever in late September.

“I wore a blue shirt to a party, and one of the hottest girls I have ever seen asked my if I was a Royals fan,” Anderson said. “Without even thinking, I said yes.”

Soon enough, Anderson was the parties resident expert on America’s favorite underdog. After 21 years of an introverted lifestyle, Anderson was finally coming out of his shell.

Taking frequent trips to the restroom allowed him enough time to learn just what he had gotten himself into. Emerging only when he felt confident enough to discuss the poor plate discipline of Salvador Perez, or the outstanding defensive leadership of Alex Gordon, Anderson was able to gather quite the following for the rest of the night.

Anderson quickly became attached to the attention that came from being a Royals fan, and was soon talking with anyone who would care to listen about “the good old days” of the George Brett era.

However, with a heartbreaking loss in game seven of the World Series came a downturn in the amount of people that would talk about baseball with Anderson.

“It all just stopped,” Anderson said. “I didn’t know what to do.”

At the time of press, Anderson has yet to talk to a girl at a party, with the exception of stumbling over his name to one.