The days go by, a million little nights and the days go by.

And I don't mind.

The rates go by, so many beautiful, the rates go by.

Leave me behind.

Good morning and welcome to episode 973 of Effectively Wild, Daily Podcasts from Baseball Perspectus.

I brought you by the Play Index at baseballreference.com and our Patreon supporters. I'm Sam Miller of ESPN, along with Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer. Hello Ben.

Hello, I have a question for you. Ask it.

Did you see the crowd estimates, the crowd size estimates of the Cubs Victory rally?

Yeah, was it 5 million? This is what they say.

Yeah, the seventh largest gathering in human history, something like that.

Well, they also say that. I think they actually had it in a tie, which is great. They couldn't get one more guy in there.

It's a tie, Ben. It was a tie. Exactly 5 million for both the Cubs World Series celebration and World Youth Day 1995.

Do you believe it?

I believe 5 million. I mean, I was talking about that with my mom, I think, and she couldn't believe that there were actually 5 million people there.

Because how many people live in Chicago?

Obviously, people came from far and wide and the Cubs have a big fan base outside of the city.

Let me just interrupt you there for one thing.

Because I lived in the city, I lived just south of San Francisco for the 2014 parade.

I happened to actually be up in Northern California for the 2010.

I was 15-20 minute train ride away from the 2014 one and maybe an hour or five minute drive from the 2010 one and did not consider for a second going into it.

You could not get into the city.

The only person I know who made it there lived along the route.

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