This Is Where I’m Supposed to Care About Baseball, Right?

The MLB playoffs started today.

I’m not sure I care.

Baseball is still, at heart, as provincial a sport as there is. If your team isn’t in the playoffs, you may well be totally disenchanted at this point; if your team never thought it would miss John Schuerholz this much, you  may well have stopped following everything but Chipper Jones and Jair Jurrjens. (Guilty.)

But one of the magical things about baseball is that the thing that makes it such great white noise for the rest of the sporting calendar makes it that much more potent in October. Though I wasn’t alive in a time when daytime World Series games meant radios on in schools and feverish pedaling down country lanes after the bell, I know the World Series less as sporting event and more as event.

AL

Red Sox over Angels in 5

Rays over White Sox in 3

Red Sox over Rays in 7

NL

Cubs over Dodgers in 4

Phillies over Brewers in 4

Cubs over Phillies in 6

World Series

Cubs over Red Sox in 7

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