You forgot, didn’t you? You forgot what playoff baseball felt like: Living and dying on every pitch, every botched strike call by the umpire looming large, and every failure to get a baserunner home feeling like it could be the thing that costs your team the game.
But you also forgot how awesome it is when heroes emerge: That feeling when the starting pitcher throws one of the finest games of his career, or the much-maligned third baseman makes one great defensive play after another. Or when the ace reliever who you didn’t really have faith in comes into the game and retires two MVP candidates.