OH, HOW we so love a fairy tale ending.
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The thing that makes sport addictive is the unpredictability.
The never really knowing what's going to play out, even when things look so plain and clear.
It's also the great moments - the fairy tales - that send chills down the spine.
History is littered with such moments.
New York Yankees baseball legend Derek Jeter pencilled in another one on Friday.
Jeter walked to home plate at the famous Yankee Stadium for the final time - the game against the Baltimore Orioles tied 5-5 with a runner on second.
Fuelled by the emotion of 43,000 plus adoring fans, Jeter promptly drove the first pitch into the outfield paving the way for the winning run to score.
A walk-off single on his final at bat - what a farewell script for one of baseball's all-time greats.
The emotional scenes that followed are what sport is all about.
It was a fairy tale ending befitting the undisputed king of Yankee Stadium.
''I wanted to take something special from my last game at Yankee Stadium,'' said Jeter later.
That he certainly did.
Thankfully, Australia has seen many such fairy tale farewell for greats of their chosen sport.
Who could forget the amazing scenes as three greats of Australian cricket in Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Justin Langer waved goodbye to their own adoring fans during a lap of honour at the SCG on January 5, 2007.
The scenes played out as Australia celebrated an unthinkable 5-0 Ashes series whitewash of the arch-enemy England on home soil.
For three die-hard Australian cricketers, the farewell moments don't come much better than that.
AFL has seen such fairy tales, too.
The emotional scenes that followed are what sport is all about.
The 2008 AFL grand final memory of Hawthorn champ Shane Crawford's 'that's what I'm talking about' moment as he grasped the premiership medal that almost eluded him in a stellar 305-game career.
It was a brilliant farewell for a footballer who had done so much in the game and earned the praise of the entire general football public along the way.
Everybody's favourite player Cameron Ling enjoyed a less public but similar fairy tale exit from the game.
Ling waited until the euphoria surrounding Geelong's 2011 AFL premiership win over Collingwood had subsided before announcing he had played his final game.
Ling later told journalists that it was while sharing a quiet beer with coach Chris Scott the day after the grand final that it dawned on him the perfect time to exit had arrived.
''That was the moment when I thought, yeah, I'm pretty happy with what I've done,'' he said.
Wonder how long we will have to wait for the next fairy tale moment in sport? Thankfully, not too long I suspect.