you never know

I watched the highlight (over and over) of Freddie Freeman hitting the game-winning, two-out, bottom of the tenth grand slam to end Game 1 of the World Series. It was fabulous. Of note, outside of Cubs (1972-2012) and the Nats (2012-present) Freeman is one of my favorite players. These events, in a series, can be bittersweet because you don't know the future. (At this point, we know the Dodgers also won Game 2.) That amazing moment in time - especially if you are in the stadium - may fade to obscurity in a week wiht a Series loss. Or, maybe it holds. Neither of those options matter right then and there because the joy of sudden is like nothing else. There are two Capitals events that I was at that were similar, yet different. In a 2008 playoff series vs. the Flyers, Mike Green scored a goal that tied the game late before an Ovechkin winner - the sound and fury of the Green goals was staggering. Funny, I don't remember the Ovi winner. The Caps lost that series in a Game 7 OT heartbreaker so that memory is a bit lost. A year later, Sergei Fedorov scored a series winning Game 7 goal over the Rangers that was just as crazy. It lingers longer because it ended the series, as opposed to an early or mid-series event amongst an untold finish.

The Freeman homerun doesn't yet have it's place defined. We want to put it next to Kirk Gibson's limpy HR magic from Game 1 in the 1988 series, but it's not there...yet. The Dodgers beat the A's that year in an upset so that Game 1 blast will forever hold the spotlight. For Freeman's to do that, they need to win the Series.

The also need to win the Series because then the Yankess will have lost.