Chicago Cubs - World Series

October 30th, 2016, day after my son's first birthday. We're brunch at about noon with that Mother-in-Law of mine and and wife brother's family. Phone rings. It's Janet. She has tickets to gave 5 of the World Series at Wrigley Field and asks 'Can you get to Chicago in 7 hours?'. What happens next is a bit of blur. I don't mean to over 'Hollywood' it here, but just a pretty controlled panic of checking Delta flights, frequent flyer miler balance, calling my boss, gauging my wife's reaction to this. I was pretty sure it could happen and then it just did. 

Drove home as fast as I could, threw a bag together, back in the car, airport, security, preflight beer, panicked phone calls, board, wheels up, touch down @ 4:30, Uber, meet Janet, Red Line, Sheridan stop, at the gates of Wrigley @ 6:15...

Walking up to the stadium there were police checking bags two blocks north of the stadium. Waveland Ave had a riot like line of cops that I assume stood there the entire game as they were still there when the game let out.

We were 4 rows behind the Cubs bullpen, right on top of Jon Lester's warm up; then eventually Carl Edwards Jr (who was a shockingly small man) and Alrodis Chapman.

Indians had a solo shot in the 2nd and the place was absolutely void of energy. Then in the fourth Kris Bryant's walk up music was (and maybe always is) 'warm it up Kris' by none other than Kris Cross. He hit a bomb to center that was low and fast, I didn't think it was going to get there when it left the bat. Just into the stands and then the fan dropped it into the basket. Rizzo then came up and nearly did the same thing to right field, but it fell a few feet short and he wound up on 2nd. Zobrist singled, Rizzo was held at 3rd.

(Those were my notes the morning after, I'm picking this up two weeks later and unfortunately won't come up with the level of detail you've read this far)

The biggest thing I that stood out from the game perspective (vs. the experience perspective) was Alrodis Chapman entering the game with 1 out in the 7th...He went the rest of the game and that. We questioned that decision the rest of the game...Until we didn't. Cubs win 3-2

Janet and I we're able to decide early on that the only way to explain the event was 'Bananas'. It was the World Series, it was at Wrigley, and we were there. Such an amazing experience to even be at a World Series game, much less one of this significance. Never before have I attended a game where the fans lived and died with every pitch, SUCH a nail bitter. We rarely sat down and when we did it was only for moments until Cubs got a runner on or the pitcher got a two strike count and then it was back at go crazy levels

Eddie Veder did the 7th Inning Stretch giving props to David Ross as it was his last game at Wrigley Field. Plenty of celebs all over the jumbotron.  Chapman struck out the final batter in the top of the 9th. I go nuts, Janet goes nuts. Wrigley, Chicago, Everybody GOES NUTS. So many W flags all over the stadium. 

Top 4 events (not to be confused with moments) of my life in no particular order to date: Birth of Son, Marriage of Wife, Superbowl of Packers, and now Game 5 of Cubs)