If there is a fall equivalent to the first Thursday of March Madness, it’s the first day of the baseball playoffs. Suddenly that 4:15 class doesn’t seem as important as a seat on the couch watching your team compete for a spot in the League Championship Series. The Serm can testify that a certain roommate skipped class this Tuesday to watch his Anaheim Angels face off against the Boston Red Sox. Clinging to the high he got when his hometown team snuck into the playoffs-via a miraculous end-of-year winning streak-this roommate shaved another five percent off his Modern History of Psychology class participation grade to watch the Angels get creamed 9-3. Asked whether it was worth it, he replied, without hesitation, “Yeah, I’d definitely do it again.” We at the Serm sincerely hope his professor isn’t reading this.
Another facet of playoff season around campus is the awkward moment somebody with a Yankees shirt walks by an enemy in a Sox hat. There is the intense exchange that occurs where neither person says a word, but thinks “scumbag” inside. By this point it is probably obvious to frequent readers that we at the Serm have a bit of a New York tilt. To be honest though, the Red Sox have been playing great ball lately, and most Yankee fans would admit to respecting the Sox as a ball club although not the Red Sox Nation as human beings. But it’s widely conceded that another heated series between the two would constitute unimaginable consequences, if both teams can win their current playoff series’. Although Yankees fans remain confident, they no longer carry the invincible swagger of past years. We’re a little worried about losing this year, although you still know what we think of them, especially when one of their fans passes by us in Red Square. Scumbag.
