… Coming as soon as it does after the leak of financial documents proving that it really can be more profitable to play to lose than to try to win, it’s something to see a team take winning seriously enough to lay a reported $4.5 million worth of chips on that one shot in six.
Chicago is, as the great Frank Thomas once infamously said, a Cubs town. When a play like this goes down, you wonder why.
Don’t tell Ozzie!