I like baseball, don't get me wrong. But I don't really watch the games much on TV. The occasional Red Sox game, maybe check in on the World Series depending on who's playing. This year, I decided I'd see how the games were going. If the Cubs could push it through, I'd watch Game 7. And so, after the defeat of the Indians on Tuesday, I was set to watch the final game. After 108 years, the Chicago Cubs finally won a World Series. It's a surreal moment – the last out, then the mass of blue uniforms running onto the field to celebrate. The last time this happened, things were a lot different.

In 1908, we were just getting used to the idea of automobiles. The Model T was just released. The Wright Brothers had made their first flight only five years previously. Teddy Roosevelt was the president. The teams in the Series, the Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, had faced off the year before – which was also a Cubs victory in a four-game sweep. This year would be different, albeit slightly. The Tigers won a single game in the 1908 Series, and despite this being the first rematch of the championship, the attendance was incredibly low. The last game, held in Detroit's Bennett Park (demolished between 1911 and 1912) had 6, 210 people in the stands. This is often attributed to a ticket scalping ring in Chicago, causing some boycotts of the game. Low numbers did not matter, as the Cubs were able to win 1-0.

Then, the curses and the usual baseball superstitions came in. The goat was banned from the stadium, and the Cubs would on occasion make it into the Series, but never win. The iron flagpoles that would hold their pendants rusted out due to lack of use. The last Series the Cubs were in was the 1945, loosing to Detroit. As time went on, jokes about the Cubs became part of baseball culture. The concept of the team winning the World Series was treated as a humorous visual of the future in Back to the Future Part II in 1989. The continuing mantra of “maybe next year” was spoken every year by Chicago's sports fans, hoping that maybe they'd break the loosing streak. Fans were born, and those same fans died before their team could make it into the final championship.

I won't talk about the 2016 season or their close win against the Cleveland Indians. It was an amazing game, and it would be best left to the professionals to go into all the little details and numbers that honestly, I don't really get. Baseball is America's national pastime. Everybody has a team – even if you don't watch or keep up with it, you have some team that when they win, you feel connected with people somehow. And especially in 2016, this close to an election, we're very divided. We argue and we hate on each other because her opinions are different than his that are different from her's and those are not the same as mine. But the footage showing the reactions to the final score was not one of people yelling at each other over who they vote for, but one of unity. Hugs, cheers, high-fives, and bought drinks. Flags raised and held high. Despite all the animosity prevalent in society right now, people came together to cheer on a team that hadn't even been in the World Series since the post-WWII years.

That's the kind of unity we need. Not the empty promises of certain candidates, nor the “liberal agenda” that actually isn't all that bad when you think rationally. In a country where everything is argued and debated like it's a life or death situation, the idea of people coming together out of their love for the game is almost impossible. It happened however, and here we are. The Chicago Cubs are now World Champions. Against all odds, they did it. The city went wild, people all around the country cheered and joined together in celebrations. The impossible was proven possible in more ways than one.