Be the most technically gifted baseball fan around during the playoff games, thanks to the MLB.com Postseason Package. It's October, and you might as well start the month off right. Here are some more reasons to sign up:

1. The entire postseason will be live on MLB.TV for international fans. That constitutes an increasingly huge chunk of the Major League Baseball following. It's that expat in England who follows the Red Sox or Yankees in the wee hours, those Vlad Guerrero and Jose Valverde fans in the Caribbean, and Grady Sizemore's legions the world over.

2. MLB.com Gameday Audio comes with the package for everyone who subscribes. It's a chance to listen to every postseason game live (in addition to today's tiebreaker). That gives you the option of choosing your favorite broadcast crew -- alternative choices to the network talent. It some cases, that includes Spanish-speaking broadcasters.

3. You will receive a 15-percent discount on your next purchase at the MLB.com Shop. So go fill that cart up with some memorabilia or fall-weather geartotaling $100, and you've just saved the amount of this subscription.

4. Everything will be on-demand. If your team is in the postseason, then you want to be able to access every pitch that has been thrown from the first game of the Division Series through the World Series clincher. Just imagine you're a Cubs fan this week. Your team hasn't been to the World Series since 1945, hasn't won it all since 1908, and it seems like forever since that 2003 chance that was so close. You know you are going to relive it over and over and over. Every game is archived shortly after the last pitch, and you want to try out the clickable box scores to feel the power of clicking on any half-inning and watching that action.

5. MLB.TV Secret Autograph Sweespstakes. Fifty winners are selected each month in this ongoing bonus opportunity for subscribers, and the deadline for entry will be Oct. 31. Randomly drawn winners receive a signed player photo, with estimated retail value ranging from $49 to $250. It's even better than opening up a pack of trading cards.

6. MLB.com Mobile Alerts. If you order the playoff alerts service by itself, it's only $3.99. But if you order the MLB.com Postseason Package, it comes included. Customize which players and teams you want to track, and you can get immediate text alerts including at-bats, news, game summaries, scores and more.

7. You'll be the smartest fan. That's what this is all about. Sure, you're going to watch Joe Buck and Tim McCarver on FOX's telecasts of the American League Championship Series and World Series. You're going to watch Cal Ripken in the TBS studio and that cable network's debut coverage of all Division Series and the NLCS on either TBS or TNT. Of course. But it goes way beyond that if you want to be the smartest, most immersed tech-loving seamhead around. Show people why.

8. The MLB.com Postseason Package lasts through the end of the 2007 postseason, which could be as late as a Nov. 1 Game 7 in the World Series.

So grab some stuff at the MLB.com Shop, and apply that 15-percent discount to something that makes a real difference in your life. It's live baseball for a new age of fan. Octobers never used to be quite like this.