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Why the Baseball Playoffs Drive Us to Distraction

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Not always a good thing, a baseball addiction .  Hearing the title of this post, " Why We Love Baseball , " FD told me that it has been done before. So I changed the title. What is it with baseball? Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, you might have noticed, are flush with exuberant Go Cubs Go adulations. FANDOM .  Cubs hoodie-to own it Kris Bryant- Go Cubs But really, it makes no sense, and I don't understand it myself. Why all the excitement? It is just baseball. Just a sport. Why should anybody really care? . My friends asked me to dinner last night. Could I get free?  "No I'm really sorry, uh…" They compassionately text back before I finish:  Oh, right you've been working all day, and your back will hurt if you sit a minute longer. Right?   It's okay, another time . We get it . But I can't let it go with a lie, even if it might be true, sometimes. "Don't be ridiculous! To go out with you, for the opportunity to catch up, I would take dr...