Baseball 2013

[jimmy olsen]

Oh Cubbies.

You're still paying attention?  Cubs fans are supposed to stop caring in August.  Your Bears got one from us though

There was a snowball's chance they could have got the wild card. Alas

There's always next year!

The Red Sox went from 69-93 in 2012 to 97-64. Cubs can too!

[derspiess]

Cards secure the top NL playoff position and will probably play the Pirates (Reds might as well not make the trip for their wild card playoff game).  Cards finished hot, which is what you want, but hopefully they won't get too cold with their time off.

So it looks like Texas may win today-- I guess they'd get a tiebreaker game vs. Tampa Bay tomorrow? 

[dps]

Cards secure the top NL playoff position and will probably play the Pirates (Reds might as well not make the trip for their wild card playoff game).  Cards finished hot, which is what you want, but hopefully they won't get too cold with their time off.

So it looks like Texas may win today-- I guess they'd get a tiebreaker game vs. Tampa Bay tomorrow? 

Yep, and Texas gets bring back Nelson Cruz.  And they get to be the home team--no idea how that gets determined. 

[MadBurgerMaker]

Yep, and Texas gets bring back Nelson Cruz.  And they get to be the home team--no idea how that gets determined.

Pretty sure it's because they won the season series vs. Tampa Bay.

[sbr]

I won the EUOT fantasy baseball keeper league for the third straight year. 

[MadBurgerMaker]

   Seems like the wildcard "playoff" should be a series.  Something short like best of three.

[derspiess]

  Seems like the wildcard "playoff" should be a series.  Something short like best of three.

That would drag things out too long IMO.  Either keep it as is or scale back to just one wild card team.

The NL wild card game is just a formality.  Reds are done.  They haven't shown any life for several days.  Dusty Baker is being rightly vilified around here for scoffing at the notion that the team needed to show a sense of urgency heading into the last couple regular season series.

Sucks that the Rangers didn't win their "play in" game.  They put together a nice little run at the end of the season & it would have been interesting to see that continue.

[MadBurgerMaker]

It would add some time to things, sure, but it seems kind of strange to have the two wild cards playing a single game in order to get into the (e:) "real" playoffs when everything else up to that point, except the stupid all star game, has been in a series format. 

Re: The Rangers:  They pissed it all away at the beginning of this month, and weren't going anywhere.  Sure, they managed to win 7 in a row, or whatever it was, late to get into that tiebreaker game, but they went like 5-15 before the little win streak started.  Do that in July (they did it in July too, actually: 11-15, with a little streak at the end) or August (20W in August), it's not good, but you can recover.  Do it in September while trying to win the division?  Yeah go on home.

[alfred russel]

  Seems like the wildcard "playoff" should be a series.  Something short like best of three.

That would drag things out too long IMO.  Either keep it as is or scale back to just one wild card team.

The NL wild card game is just a formality.  Reds are done.  They haven't shown any life for several days.  Dusty Baker is being rightly vilified around here for scoffing at the notion that the team needed to show a sense of urgency heading into the last couple regular season series.

Sucks that the Rangers didn't win their "play in" game.  They put together a nice little run at the end of the season & it would have been interesting to see that continue.

It really helps the Rays that Price pitched a complete game last night. But the back to back do or die games shouldn't do the pitching staffs any favors should they survive to the division round, especially coming off of basically do or die games at the end of the season.

I think the Cards are better served by getting the best record in that they get to face the Wild Card winner as opposed to home field in a potential NLCS.

[derspiess]

Intense crowd in P-burgh.  Hopefully after tonight we can stop hearing over & over how long it had been since the Pirates had been in the playoffs.

[derspiess]

As I mentioned, the Reds are done.  It may only be the 7th inning, but let me be the first to congratulate Syt on his team advancing.

[CountDeMoney]

Meh, TBS baseball coverage sucks anyway.

[derspiess]

Meh, TBS baseball coverage sucks anyway.

No shit.  This is painful.  I laughed at the people at work who said they were going to watch the game but listen to the local radio feed.  Shit, I'd rather be listening to Marty Brennaman right now.  And I can't stand Marty.

Forgot from last year how horrible TBS is.

[Syt]

Meh, TBS baseball coverage sucks anyway.

Yeah, I want the club announcers all the way (hence radio - MLB online stream caters for that, fortunately). The TBS folks are just .... eh.

Oh and: 

[derspiess]

Dusty Baker may be done for in Cincy.  I used to defend him, but he's made some horrible decisions.  Starting Cueto who was on the DL not long ago may be the worst in recent memory. 

Anyway, bring on the real NL playoffs.  Cards-Pirates & Braves-Dodgers will be a good couple of series to watch.