On Halloween, parents face impossible choice between their kids and the World Series
Cruel fate put Game 6 of an incredibly exciting World Series on the same night as Halloween.
If you were a sports fan with kids -- or lived in a neighborhood full of trick-or-treaters -- this was pretty much torture. Fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, and just baseball in general were faced with some tough choices.
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Some people straight-up pretended they weren't home.
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Others were generous with their candy -- if you cheered for the right team.
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And some parents had kids with the right priorities.
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But one LA neighbor was the real MVP. They put a TV outside for all the parents schlepping their kids around in search of fun-size candy bars.
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Now that's the spirit. Happy Halloween, baseball fans.
Keith Wagstaff is an assistant editor at Mashable and a terrible Settlers of Catan player. He has written for TIME, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, NBC News, The Village Voice, VICE, GQ and New York Magazine, among many other reputable and not-so-reputable publications. After nearly a decade in New York City, he now lives in his native Los Angeles.
