Lake Erie is why Cleveland exists, a city built a couple of centuries ago on a perfect port for freighters to haul coal and corn and iron and manufacturing to global markets. Lake Erie provides its summer entertainment and its wicked winter winds and its sunsets that bloom across the sky. Tuesday was the greatest sporting day this city has ever known – the Indians defeating the Chicago Cubs 6-0 in Game 1 of the World Series directly across the street from where the Cavaliers held a pregame ceremony to raise the city's first championship banner since 1964, ending decades of athletic futility and failure.