If you don't have skin in the game -- which is to say, at least serious money, but more likely a longtime love for the Red Sox, Rays, Dodger or Phillies laundry -- just how are you supposed to actually watch playoff baseball?I'll let you into an inside glimpse of the miraculous life of the off-time sports blogger here, folks... it doesn't always work in real time, or in an efficient way. Sometimes, I get wiped out while writing and pass out. Which is what happened on Saturday night, after I did the Shooter Dad thing, then came back down to the Man Cave. I woke up as the Rays got to work in the bottom of the twelfth, with BJ Upton's pop up scoring the winning run.So that game started at 8pm EST, and ended past 1:30am. Now, I don't know about you, but I'm not sure if I've ever watched anything that took five and a half hours that didn't involve the birth of my kid, or perhaps experimental German cinema, or... well, nope. I got nothing.Now, if you are in...
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