In "Another kind of dark night" at Commonweal blog, Fr. Komonchak proposes ...

So the World Series is over, and we enter into the dark desert of a world without baseball.

Has anyone considered the possibility that what is called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) might actually be caused, not by the decline in the hours of daylight in winter, but by the absence of baseball?

There's that ... and how your favorite team did.

From the comments: the religious power of baseball? I got that a long time ago.