This is my answer to people who try to show people up by pointing out "don't you want competitive baseball in September?"
Being in a good position and then losing 16 games in September to let everyone in the door is not a competitive September. It's a competitive May-August and a September spent throwing buckets of water at a burning house.
As for fun, this isn't fun. Baseball is best on leisurely spring and summer days. Cold weather baseball with enormous stakes is really the opposite of that. But I've allowed myself to become invested, so.