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Video: Helping you decide which team to adopt for the pennant race

mike oz

Right now, the baseball season is, for all intents and purposes, over for a third of the teams in MLB. Another eight or so might be in the mix for the postseason, but we all know that’s not really going to happen. Looking at you, Marlins. Which leaves us a dozen teams with viable cases for October.

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If your team isn’t around anymore, there’s nothing wrong with adopting a team for the stretch run. Some people would argue, but calm yourselves, it’s OK. There’s nothing wrong with rooting for another team once the pennant races heat up, just to stay engaged with baseball.

If you’re joining the September adopt-a-team program, the Chicago Cubs are the most logical choice. They’re the ultimate underdogs after 108 years of not winning a World Series and, should they make it to the World Series, will become THE story in sports. But they’re not the ONLY story.

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So on this week’s installment of my Open Mike video series, I’m helping you decide which team deserves your temporary allegiance for the stretch run. Watch the video and do some critical thinking about what’s truly important for you.

Maybe it’s baseball’s best bromance in Texas or Francisco Lindor looking like a dude from a ’90s R&B group, as our MLB editor Marcus Vanderberg so astutely called months ago.

Choose wisely, baseball fans.

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Mike Oz is the editor of Big League Stew on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at mikeozstew@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!