For over a decade, I’ve been constantly searching for the best metaphor for the Major League Baseball postseason experience. The contest for The best NHL playoff metaphor was created many years agoThe best metaphor for baseball’s postseason is still out there. Is it shaking a jar of scorpions and tarantulas and mixing them up? Is it doing donuts along Wall Street until the National Guard calls in?
These descriptions are way too intense. There’s intensity in baseball, but it comes in bursts and waves.
I think I’ve found it. It’s Snoopy’s novel, “It was a dark and stormy night.”
It’s nonsensical. It’s intense. SO MUCH HAPPENS. But, also, it’s nonsensical. And it’s wildly entertaining. It’s the baseball postseason. Here’s how it starts:
It was dark and stormy. Then, suddenly, there was a sound. A door slammed. The maid screamed.
You’re already recalling specific postseason memories. That shot that rang out? That’s a walk-off home run. Is that the door opening? That’s a cruel Game 7 defeat. The maid screaming? That’s, uh, probably a weird decision Joe Maddon once made that worked out.
Here are the postseason games of Oct. 11, 2022, as described by Snoopy’s 218-word masterpiece.
Atlanta vs. Philadelphia: Phillies hang on, as
