October is a stressful time for baseball. For fans of postseason teams, it’s a nerve-wracking month spent poring over the TV screen and hoping that your team lives to fight another day, resulting in liver failure, sleep deprivation, or both. For fans of teams who didn’t make the cut, the festivities of the playoffs make the thought of waiting out another long winter that much more daunting. And fans of teams who made the postseason but whose World Series dreams are no longer alive, well, we get to enjoy the worst of both worlds.
October, however, doesn’t have to be so stressful.