Bart Giamatti was right. The game, it really is designed to break your heart. His words have never rung more true: “… as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone … ”

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We feel it around here. We do.

Thursday marked the 37th day since Cody Bellinger swung through a Jeff Hoffman splitter, ending Game 4 of the American League Division Series between the Yankees and the Blue Jays, ending New York City’s share of the 2025 baseball season.

A month of old weather reports can insist all they want that there have been warm days since, might even indicate that the sun has occasionally been seen. But we know better. Those of us whose calendars are calibrated by the baseball season know when summer truly yields to winter, without ever even offering a respectful pause for autumn.