In a development that proves baseball is no longer decided by nine players and a manager but by a thousand keyboard warriors, Tuesday’s Cubs vs. Blue Jays game at 6:07 CT has become a live-streamed experiment in crowd psychology.

The overflow thread started as a typical pregame chat, then quickly escalated into a sprawling novella where every strike is a cliffhanger and every inning break doubles as a spoiler alert.

Analysts say the thread now has its own weather system: occasional showers of hot takes, gusts of sarcasm, and the thunderclap of ‘REBUILD THE TANK,’ all forecast to arrive before the third inning stretch.

Cubs fans are treating the bullpen as a magical artifact that will appear in the seventh inning and officially explain the meaning of life once it gets here.

Blue Jays fans, not to be outdone, have flooded the thread with memes about coffee orders, glove tucks, and pitches that allegedly come with a side of artisanal heartbreak.

Between the memes and the analytics, predictions have multiplied like baserunners on a bunt, with one commenter foretelling a 12-run inning that would make Nostradamus raise an eyebrow at the punctuation.

The team PR issued a stern reminder: baseball is a game, not a spreadsheet, though it does look a lot like a spreadsheet when you overlay the comments with a heat map of opinions.

A few players have Twittered silence, then a flurry of cryptic emojis that fans insist are coded signals about batting order, or maybe just a pizza order.

The broadcasters have begun acknowledging the thread as the real postgame show, because nothing boosts ratings like a live montage of GIFs and hot takes set to the sound of crowd noise.

Merchandising has seized the moment, selling Overflow 6:07 T-shirts and ‘I survived the thread’ mugs to quiet the inner skeptic who still believes in logic.

The official scoreboard page now doubles as a meme hub, with every run updating alongside a comment bubble reading ‘Plot twist: it was a double all along.’

When the first pitch finally comes, the thread will pivot from ‘what a pitch’ to ‘what a thread’ in approximately the same amount of time, proving social media moves at the speed of adrenaline and hot takes.

Fans are already claiming the thread has become the second-most interesting thing about the game, narrowly edging out the between-inning snack choices for dramatic tension.

By the end of the night, the only thing everyone agrees on is that the scoreboard and the thread both exist to remind us that baseball is a sport and the internet is a mood.