Many people would call it one of the best comebacks ever in the history of sports.
A few would call it one of the biggest disasters in the history of baseball. However it will be remembered, this year's American League Championship Series between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, and the other series, has been creating a fervor on campus.
Walking past many TVs on campus, one is likely to see a group of students huddled around watching baseball.
So why exactly have these playoffs been so popular on campus? Many students feel that if it were not for the Red Sox advancing as far as they did, they would not have nearly as much interest in them than they do now.
Freshman John Blair said that like many other people, he is watching "just because the Red Sox have won. Otherwise no one would care."
It is not only the fact that the Red Sox won the ALCS that has been creating such excitement: it is how they won it.
Down three games to none against the Yankees, everyone wrote them off and focused on the National League Championship Series match up between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Houston Astros.
But when the Red Sox came back and won two games at home before winning two more at Yankee Stadium, interest in the playoffs began to peak again.
"Everyone, to some extent, wants to see the underdog win," said freshman Luke Walker, who said he doesn't normally support either team. "You sit there and realize that you may be watching history."
Many baseball fans are rooting for the Red Sox in these playoffs, partly because of hatred for the "Evil Empire," as Red Sox president Larry Lucchino once famously called the Yankees, but also because of the fact that the Red Sox have not won a World Series since 1918, the longest championship drought for any team in the American League.
"I just want to see the curse broken," said junior Joe Petrides.
David Bobb, the director of the Hoogland Center for Teacher Excellence, who lived in Boston for six years and considers himself a big fan, laughed off "The Curse," saying that this year's ALCS "throws the supposed curse of the Bambino into the Bronx River, where it belongs."
"The Red Sox comeback against the Yankees is almost unbelievable, even now that the Sox are in the Series," he said. "It is the single greatest comeback in the history of baseball and in the history of team sports, of which baseball is greatest."
Professor Paul Moreno, a Yankees fan, disagrees.
"Seven-game series are a lot more common than they used to be," Moreno said. "From 1903-69, there was only the World Series. The LCS has produced over a hundred series since 1969 as opposed to only 65 before then. Sooner or later, some team was likely to lose a series after being ahead 3-0. Since the Yankees are almost always in the postseason, it was most likely to happen to them.
"The Red Sox are the perennial 'wild cards.' The Yankees have beaten them in nine consecutive regular seasons. In the long run, the Yankees are always the better team."
Freshman Kevin Sullivan, from Rockford, Ill., is rooting for the Red Sox because, as a Cubs fan, he hates the Cardinals.
"Cardinals fans just seem so giddy it disturbs me. They are the 'darlings' of the media because they think they know so much.I think I'd rather watch the Cardinals go down in a burning ball of flame than the Yankees."
Though many choose to cheer for the Red Sox in hope of seeing "The Curse" broken, there are a small but loyal number of Cardinals fans.
Sophomore Mallon Mackenzie from Chesterfield, Mo., considers herself a fairly new Cardinals fan.
"I am very excited to be watching my first World Series and actually take some pride in it," she said. "Actually watching games now, I'm extremely impressed by the amazing catches the outfielders make and the strategy of the pitchers and runners."
As excited as Mackenzie is that her team has made it to the World Series, she said she was surprised that so many people without connections to the teams were watching.
"I had some friends from St. Louis visit me just this weekend, and they were surprised to go out and find a crowd of people huddled around a TV watching the game and getting so emotional all the way up here in Michigan."