An Open Letter to Baseball on the First Day of the Playoffs

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Dear Baseball,

Well, you tried to screw this up. There are about 7,500 reasons why your playoffs shouldn’t be starting today (Marlins-Cubs is quite high on the list), and yet, start they shall. You’ll hype these Wild Card coin tosses like they’re some cross between the 1988 A’s/Dodgers World Series and a dude slaloming through mountains of cocaine on a March…