Take everything you thought you knew. Take everything we were certain about as recently as a week ago. Throw it out the window.

Clayton Kershaw is the best pitcher on the planet?

Kelley Jansen is one of the most dominant closers in baseball?

Ken Giles is the Houston Astros closer?

The 2017 World Series begs to differ.

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The World Series is simultaneously one of the smallest and most important sample sizes in baseball. Every game leading up to these potential seven can be thrown out the window. Every moment following the conclusion of this series will be filled with doubts and questioning decisions. But, right now, nothing else matters.

If you are an Astros or Dodgers fan, I can only believe these are the most incredible, thrilling, stressful, brilliant couple of weeks in your life. If you are simply an impartial baseball fan, it might well be the same. These playoffs and this World Series have been some of the most entertaining baseball we will ever see.

Who cares if the ball is juiced? Who cares if games crawl into the early hours of the morning? Anyone who argues the length of baseball games are the reason the games are boring wasn't watching Game 5. If you weren’t grasping the sides of your seat for each of the eight times the lead changed hands last night, baseball may not be for you.

Game 5 was the epitome of this World Series’ chaotic nature. The 2017 average MLB game length clocked in at three hours and five minutes; Game 5 lasted nearly five and a half hours. The second-highest scoring game in World Series history. Three-run homers matched by three-run homers. Solo shot matched by solo shot. It seemed that every time the barrel of the bat struck a ball, it was destined for the outfield bleachers. When Chris Taylor, a career .233 hitter prior to this season, stepped to the plate in the ninth with the tying run on third, it seemed inevitable this spectacle of a game was not yet ready to end. Derek Fisher, who slid across home to finally end the spectacle of a game, has yet to even take an at-bat in the World Series. If you were lucky or awake enough to experience Game 5, you witnessed history. Chaotic history.

Game 5 was a treat that will likely never be matched for decades to come. Respectable postseason pitching statistics are a lost cause. Yasiel Puig’s home run ball will never be seen again by the poor lady that snagged it. But who cares?

Embrace it. Embrace every moment of this series. Dodgers fans. Astros fans. Baseball fans. Stay up, and show up to work and school exhausted. This World Series is baseball at its finest. No lead is safe. The final out of this series will be the first exhale on either side. Embrace the chaos.