Apparently other sporting events have taken place since Wednesday night.
In all honesty, however, it’s going to take quite awhile for something to matchup to the wildness that was Game 7 of the World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians.
Unless you’ve been under a rock over the last while, and if so congrats on avoiding the gong show that is the presidential election race in the United States, you already know by now that the Cubs ended their 108-year title drought with a dramatic 8-7 extra innings triumph.
There were enough twists and turns in one game, let along the final three innings, to make up a season of any prime-time drama.
In fact, 40 million Americans tuned in to watch the seventh and deciding game, which was the most-watched World Series contest since the Minnesota Twins defeated the Atlanta Braves in the seventh and deciding game of the 1991 “Fall Classic.”
Over the last few days, I’ve started to ask myself the question that many people have already asked aloud.
Was Wednesday’s contest the best baseball game of all time?
Well for starters, I can’t say for certain how it compares to the other great contests of the past, such as Game 6 of the 1975 World Series when Carleton Fisk hit a huge home run for the Boston Red Sox.
And while I have memories of the Toronto Blue Jays championship seasons of 1992 and 1993, I couldn’t tell you much about the blow-by-blow details of those games as I was only a couple of years old at that time.
Heading into Wednesday night, my favourite baseball game ever took place five years ago when the Texas Rangers battled the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 6 of the World Series.
The Rangers, who had never won a championship, were one strike away in both the ninth and 10th innings, only to see the Cardinals tie the game both times.
In between both of those plays, Josh Hamilton hit a two home-run for the Rangers to give them the lead back.
The Cardinals ended the proceedings with a bang in the bottom of the 11th inning as David Freese hit a walk-off home run of his own to give his team the win.
Thanks to that win, the Cardinals would win the World Series a day later in a rather forgettable Game 7, but what happened the night before will go down in history as one of the best games ever.
Time will do more justice to Wednesday’s magical event, but what helps is the fact the Cubs were able to end their long drought.
So much has happened over the last century and so many Cubs fans went their entire lives without seeing their team win it all.
Now that it’s happened, it’ll be curious to see what happens in the years to come at Wrigley Field.
With so many young players on the Cubs, World Series titles might become a regular occurrence.
