http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2015/10/mets_or_cubs_here_s_who_you_should_root_for_in_the_mlb_playoffs.html

With the penultimate round of the Major League Baseball playoffs getting underway, casual baseball fans are faced with a real dilemma: deciding which team to root against. In the Goofus-and-Gallant binary that defines baseball fandom, likable playoff teams are almost always counterbalanced by loathsome ones: overexposed success-mongers with smug and annoying fan bases. But this year’s League Championship Series is historically short on Goofuses: It’ll be only the second LCS since 1996 in which one or more of the Yankees, Red Sox, or Cardinals have not appeared. The Chicago Cubs, the Toronto Blue Jays, the New York Mets, and the Kansas City Royals make this perhaps one of the most likable crops of League Championship Series teams in baseball history.