Familiarity breeds contempt, as that old saying goes, and so it goes that in this year's suite of division series matchups, we have been gifted some of baseball's best rivalries.
For three of the matchups, the feud is seeded in geographic proximity: Dodgers-Padres, Phillies-Mets and Guardians-Tigers are all interdivision rivals. With Yankees-Royals, it's actually the renewal of a feud in hibernation for 40 years: If you watched baseball in the late 1970s, you remember well that it was once the fiercest rivalry in the game.