Are you kidding me?

Seriously, are you kidding? Never in my life would I think to write that a day that the Braves lose one of the largest September playoff leads in MLB history would turn out to be the greatest day of baseball that I will probably ever witness in my life.

Starting with the NL, the Cardinals destroyed the worst team in the majors to put the pressure on the Braves. This worked. The Braves squandered two late leads, even blowing a lead in the 9^th with only one out to go. Atlanta ended up losing in 13 innings and definitely reminded me of when they lost the 18 inning thriller to the Astros in the 2005 NLDS.

So you have and absolute collapse in the NL and a very, very good game that went to extras. Even though the Braves lost, I looked past this and just said this was great for the game of baseball to have a game with playoff implications go to extra innings. This was because looking at the other scores, nothing was too interesting. At least at that point ....

Boston and Baltimore were in a rain delay for most of the night and the Rays were down 7-0 to the Yankees in the 8^th. Then the night started getting fun. The Rays somehow find a way to score 6 in the bottom half of the inning capped off by Longoria's three run shot.

At this point my remote control was getting tired wishing it was in a rain delay. Once the delay ends in Baltimore, the Red Sox were clinging to a one run lead trying to close it out. Then the Rays kept chopping away at the lead.

Bottom of the 9^th. 2 outs. 2 strikes. Dan Johnson up to the plate. Yes, the same Dan Johnson that was a former Husker. Yes, the same Dan Johnson that is in the greatest YouTube clip of all time. Yes, that Dan Johnson. That Dan Johnson ends up hitting a solo shot to send the games to extra.

Alternating pitches between the two games, I get fixated on watching Papelbon trying to close out the game with a one run lead. Just like the Dan Johnson drama, the Orioles are down to their last out. Two consecutive doubles later, the game is tied.

Flip back to the Rays game.

Fans start going absolutely crazy watching the scoreboard seeing that the Red Sox blew the lead.

Flip back to the Red Sox game.

A line drive to left is bobbled and the Orioles win the game in walk-off style. Their celebrate like they won the World Series and have something to actually cheer about in their town since Cal Ripken retired.

Flip back to the Rays game (only one still going at this point).

Fans find out that the Red Sox won and start going absolutely nuts. No more than three minutes later, Longoria steps up again and hits a walk off home run to send the Rays to the playoffs.

Let me reiterate. I never, ever thought I would say that a day where the Braves lost a game to make the playoffs and capped off the biggest collapse in franchise history would be my favorite day to watch baseball, but it absolutely was. It's one of those nights that I couldn't be more happy that I was waiting to launch our MLB playoff package on ESPN.com and was able to experience all of these amazing games.

This will go down as the greatest day in my baseball watching/consuming history. I really can't imagine how it gets better than this. Try to prove me wrong MLB ... I'm all for it.