Duane Kuiper quipped recently that the postseason is all about rooting passionately for a team or passionately against one.
San Francisco Giants fans are very much in touch with this sentiment. The early 2010s were a dream—a bliss bordering on delirium of three championships each more unlikely than the last. The past five Octobers have been driven by a slightly less wholesome, arguably fiercer drive to see one team in particular fail and fail and fail and fail and fail.
It’s not the healthiest or emotionally productive way to spend the next couple of weeks, but the solution certainly isn’t to turn off the TV, curl up by the fire and read a book.