If you’d come to me at the beginning of this NFL season and said, “Mike, the Redskins are going to be 2-2 after four games,” I would have called it good enough. If you’d added that the Nationals would be hosting their first round of the MLB playoffs after finishing 95-67 I would have been very pleased.

Check and check.

That’s where we find ourselves this day without baseball, the lone day between the end of the regular season and the beginning of the marathon that is the march to the World Series. Sentimental favorites, of course, remain the Chicago Cubs, given their century-long futility, but have not Washington baseball fans suffered nearly as equally (is that an oxy moron?) over said time period?

Regardless, we pause football for a few days to focus on our true national pastime: making sure baseball playoff schedules align with when it’s convenient to show the games on TV.