The baseball world is littered with mourning fan bases right now. Yankees fans are wondering if they’re ever going to get Aaron Judge his chance at a title he so richly deserves. Phillies fans know their team is running out of time. Mets fans are pretending that baseball is no longer a sport that’s played in public and would appreciate it if you’d stop acting as if it is. There are 26 fan bases who know, for certain, that this isn’t the year.
But there are four remaining, the four teams left in the League Championship Series: You can tell who their fans are by the bleary-eyed humans who keep walking into the door to the boiler room in your office because they’ve been tearing their hair out every night, deep into the morning. If you’re a fan of the 26, these four could use your support.