One will touch the sporting glory, the other miseriable feeling of being so close and yet so far.
There will be no half measures in the decisive seventh game of the World Series between the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs, the two teams have gone longer without winning the title most prized baseball.
Between the two carry 176 years of a drought stretching from 1908 to the Cubs and since 1948 for the Indians.
Since then, they have appeared hexes, missed opportunities and intense pain for one of the two teams will end Wednesday, but the other will worsen further, Encroach every corner of the body of their fans and players.
The curse of the Chicago Cubs and the last failed prediction of "Back to the Future"
And all are playing a game, nine innings, 27 outs. The Phantom of the extra innings is a figure that no one wants to invoke.
The only thing that is clear is that the loser will suffer one of the cruelest defeats sport, if not more.
The Billy Goat
Chicago, for example, has clung to the only chance he has had since 1945 to clear once and for all the famous Billy Goat curse, which would not let into the stadium at that World Series 71 years ago.
That was the last chance the Cubs reached an autumn classic title they lost in the seventh game against the Detroit Tigers.
"Running" baseball
Against Cleveland are challenging statistics to give a twist to the story, as at the time did the Red Sox and Chicago White Sox, teams also suffered nearly a century before returning to win the World Series.
To achieve this, the Cubs would become the first team to overcome a 3-1 deficit since they did the Kansas City Royals in 1985.
The father who caught the baseball while feeding her baby
In addition they would be the first to recover a similar difference by winning their last two away games as did the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1979.
So close, but ...
Cleveland is still a kind of déjà vu.
The Indians forced the seventh game in 1997 and were two outs in the ninth title on Oct. 26 when Moises Alou Florida Marlins scored the tying run and sent the game into extra innings.
There will be no half measures in the decisive seventh game of the World Series between the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs, the two teams have gone longer without winning the title most prized baseball.
Between the two carry 176 years of a drought stretching from 1908 to the Cubs and since 1948 for the Indians.
Since then, they have appeared hexes, missed opportunities and intense pain for one of the two teams will end Wednesday, but the other will worsen further, Encroach every corner of the body of their fans and players.
The curse of the Chicago Cubs and the last failed prediction of "Back to the Future"
And all are playing a game, nine innings, 27 outs. The Phantom of the extra innings is a figure that no one wants to invoke.
The only thing that is clear is that the loser will suffer one of the cruelest defeats sport, if not more.
The Billy Goat
Chicago, for example, has clung to the only chance he has had since 1945 to clear once and for all the famous Billy Goat curse, which would not let into the stadium at that World Series 71 years ago.
That was the last chance the Cubs reached an autumn classic title they lost in the seventh game against the Detroit Tigers.
"Running" baseball
Against Cleveland are challenging statistics to give a twist to the story, as at the time did the Red Sox and Chicago White Sox, teams also suffered nearly a century before returning to win the World Series.
To achieve this, the Cubs would become the first team to overcome a 3-1 deficit since they did the Kansas City Royals in 1985.
The father who caught the baseball while feeding her baby
In addition they would be the first to recover a similar difference by winning their last two away games as did the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1979.
So close, but ...
Cleveland is still a kind of déjà vu.
The Indians forced the seventh game in 1997 and were two outs in the ninth title on Oct. 26 when Moises Alou Florida Marlins scored the tying run and sent the game into extra innings.
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