Baseball was much different back in 2008, the last time the Chicago Cubs and White Sox were in first place this late in the season.
Every opinion was not automatically shared on Twitter or Instagram back then. No one talked about launch angles or exit velocity. The average game time was under three hours.
In Chicago, the ’08 Cubs were celebrating the 100th anniversary of their last championship season as consensus favorites, while the Sox were three years removed from their own championship parade and hoping to rediscover their ’05 mojo.
Dreams of a Crosstown World Series — the first since the one and only affair in 1906 — were in the air all summer.