Baseball for me pretty much dies when the Cubs are out of it. I only watch sporadically afterward. I don’t imagine I’m in the majority here, but surely there are some others (and stop calling me Shirley). I hope there’s baseball next year, though, even if I only watch the regular season.
It’s the tradition — Baseball is older than most states. “The earliest known mention of baseball in the United States was in a 1792 Pittsfield, Massachusetts by-law banning the playing of the game within 80 yards of the town meeting house.