The sports bar is packed, with a line going around the block. The voices inside all blend together. Appetizers like buffalo wings and mozzarella sticks, entrees like prime rib with horseradish sauce and roast chicken , and all types of alcoholic beverages.

Peter Stone sits at one of the tables. He is dressed in a Chicago Cubs jersey instead of the suit that he normally wears whenever he is working as an assistant state's attorney for Cook County. Like almost everyone in the room, he looks toward the color televisions. Game 7 of the 2016 World Series, between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians, is being broadcast. It is the bottom of the tenth inning, and the Cubs were leading 8-7. The Indians had already scored a run in this tenth inning, and one more could force an eleventh inning, while two more would clinch the Indians a Series victory, the first since 1948.

Stone reminisces on his time with the Chicago Cubs. Although he is a native New Yorker, he was recruited into the Chicago Cubs after college. He remembers the games he played at Wrigley Field and in various cities like Los Angeles, Dallas, Tampa, and Denver.

And of course, on more than one occasion he returned to New York. Stone had taken the time to check out his boyhood neighborhood, eating meals at New York style delicatessens.

He then recalls the career-ending injury he endured nearly a decade before. He had been devastated that he lost the opportunity to continue to play professional baseball. He then went to law school, and after graduating, took a job as an assistant state's attorney.

Almost like Pop.

Now he watches his team in the World Series. They had come up from a 3-1 series deficit. Now they are at the tenth inning in Game Seven.

Mike Montgomery throws a pitch towards Michael Martinez, who hits the ball. It bounces along the infield towards the left even as Martinez makes a run to first base. Third baseman/infielder Kris Bryant catches the ball and quickly throws it to Anthony Rizzo at first base. Rizzo catches the ball a split second before Martinez reaches first base.

The time for nerve signals to traverse the optic nerve is microseconds, and all it took is microseconds from the time the ball reached Rizzo's glove to the sports bar erupted in cheers and yells. A bartender rings a bell. Excited fans express their feelings over witnessing an event that last happened one hundred eight years before.

After a few minutes, the noise decreases that people can hear each other talk.

"One free beer fer anyone wearin' an Indians jersey," says the bar owner. "Think of it as a cons'lation prize."

"Do you wish you could be there celebrating their win?" asks Anna Valdez, a coworker of Stone's.

"Maybe," answers Stone, looking wistfully as the television shows the Cubs celebrating.

Then again, maybe they would have lost. There were so many variables in life, something he witnesses both during his professional baseball career and his career as a criminal prosecutor.

"Don't celebrate too hard," replies Valdez. "You have that deposition tomorrow."

Stone briefly thinks about the deposition he has with Chicago Police Detective Erin Lindsay tomorrow, then the prosecutor puts those thoughts aside. For now, it is time for he, like the rest of Chicago, to celebrate.