Indian Summer
Chicago baseball fans saw something this evening that multiple generations in the city have not seen. The White Sox, their players and their manager are not exactly favorites of mine.
But for what happiness it brings Chicago, well, that's good.
Baseball fans in Chicago can now enjoy what baseball fans in Boston felt last year.
Again, a good thing.
It might even be uttered by some fan that "this is the best day of my life."
Just speculation on my part, of course.
The thing that you realize after a number of years, however, is that sports is just a small dessert in the meal of life.
As a sports writer, I tend to dramatize things. But really, sports doesn't matter. Who wins and who loses doesn't matter. Who had a game-winning shot doesn't matter.
Family matters. God matters. In the grand scheme of things, sports is just there, a nice distraction from the sometimes harsh realities of the outside world.
We shouldn't forget that.