In case you’re unaware the MLB playoffs started yesterday. Yeah, it caught us by surprise too. To recap: the Phillies haven’t been booed in a while, Cubs fans are already suicidal, and the Red Sox are still pretty decent in the post season.

It’s that time of year again. It’s October and — after months of pretending the MLB is the WNBA — it’s time to start paying attention to baseball again. We find it fairly amazing how baseball can go from mind-numbingly boring to pretty GD interesting with just a flip of the calendar. The phenomenon is a lot like getting four vodka tonics in that prude from your office and finding out how much she hates to wear underpants. Everything suddenly changes:

• Games matter.
• Teams get sent home.
• Actively rooting against Massholes is fun again.
• The more the Cubs lose, the funnier Bartman jokes get.
• And day games provide a tremendous reason to blow off work and drink beers in the afternoon.

What’s not to like? So for all the apathy we show towards the pastime eleven months out of the year, consider that changed for the remainder of October. Unless, of course, it ends up being a Devil Rays-Brewers World Series or we finally figure out how to hack into the Spice Network. Then we won’t give a shit again.

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