Last year, we here at Bless You Boys were struggling with how to cope without the Detroit Tigers in the postseason. Sure, it wasn’t exactly a surprise they missed the postseason that year — it was our third October in a row without Tigers baseball — but we got rather used to seeing our team in the playoffs. It was nice.
To get over the disappointment, we picked other teams to follow. Justin Verlander made the Houston Astros an easy team to latch onto, and the unfortunate devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey made them a sentimental favorite around the country.