potentialities

I watched at least part of four postseason games today, which is really quite excessive, but I just kept getting sucked into them.

First, I dropped in on the first game because I was curious to see if the Rangers could continue caging the Blue Jays in their own home. After fourteen innings they succeeded in doing so, although since I switched to the Royals game around the ninth, I missed out on all the drama and bench-clearing. Josh Donaldson is such a crybaby! He seems to have a meltdown every time something does not go exactly his way, which is something I feel cannot happen too often.

The Royals, in spite of a discouraging start, managed to win game two of their series with the Astros, which gave me just enough hope to make me willing to check out the potential National League winners. The Cardinals beat the Cubs but the Mets beat the Dodgers, meaning that no home team has won a postseason game so far unless said home is located in Missouri. (Watching too much baseball makes you think in terms of weird stats like this.)

I keep dithering about whether to request Kansas City Royals RPF for Yuletide this year.

pros:

• clearly the thing I have been most fannish about this year, in terms of time spent watching it, listening to it, talking about it, reading about it, etc., etc.
  
• definitely rare, in that there's all of one piece of Hosmer/Moustakas on AO3 which seems to be very vague brief pining and also it is in Chinese
  
• makes me giddy with enthusiasm
  
• at Christmas I may be mourning another postseason heartbreak and someone will have written something to cheer me up

cons:

• too rare?
  
• I mean, I'm actually getting shippier stuff from the spots they run on Fox Sports Kansas City than from fandom at this point, which is just wrong
  
• realistically not a fandom that anyone is going to pick up on a whim, either
  
• on the off chance that anyone does write it I may still be too distraught from postseason heartbreak at Christmas to read it

I dunno. I feel like getting overinvested in a bunch of dorks in frumpy uniforms was a poor life choice.