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...caveat before I proceed: this being October, I'm going to admit to the malaise that curiously befalls most Americans around this time of year, the playoff fever that makes us abdicate good judgment and sound priorities when baseball is t stake...
...leave the post-game analysis to my colleagues on the sports page, but suffice it to say that playoff baseball--and the death-grip it holds on the imagination of otherwise reasonable people--is a topic of concern even outside the sports community...
Cosmo's more provocative suggestions, which included vacuuming naked in front of the television in an attempt to break the sports fan's concentration, speak to the gravity of playoff fever's potential consequences...
...more interested in the academic and cultural repercussions of being a playoff nut at Harvard...
...slams) just to show McGwire and Sosa how easy it is -- and tossed in six doubles just for fun. Then he crushed one in Game 2 on Wednesday to beat back the Rangers. And Friday -- well, the way Yankees starter David Cone attracts run support, we could see some playoff records fall...