Colchester, Ontario — Oh, wouldn’t this have been a perfect World Series for two priests living on dimes rather than dollars.
There would be a breezy five-hour drive to Wrigley Field to help the long-exiled Cubs faithful revel in their rapture. And, across Lake Erie from the shoreline cottage where the Rev. Don Worthy sits on a golden autumn day, sunshine in his blue eyes, there, darn near in sight, is Cleveland, where the Indians have raised a rare American League pennant.
“If the Tigers were in it, this would be just a bit more exciting, but short of that, this is the answer to a World Series fiend’s prayers,” said Worthy, sizing up 2016’s showdown, which features two longtime absentees from the championship round, the Cubs and Indians, beginning tonight at Progressive Field in Cleveland.