1.   Campaigns and playoff baseball.

2.   Nothing close to the encompassing vacuum of playoff baseball.

3.   Playoff baseball is great but it would be nice to again enjoy a few weeks of this in September.

4.   Playoff baseball is supposed to be tight.

5.   Shea Stadium was alive and crackling with the spirit of playoff baseball Friday night.

6.   Situation pitching is an important part of playoff baseball.

7.   The baby is one of the few people in Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium Wednesday night for whom playoff baseball has not become old hat.

8.   The wild card remains a possibility for both, but neither has played playoff caliber baseball this season.

9.   This is what you get in playoff baseball.

10.   Playoff baseball is coming a day early, again.