MLB stretch run and playoffs thread.

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come-from-behind Oakland victory (1 in 8th, 2 in 9th, 3 in 10th) is pretty devastating to LAA/TB.

Yeah, that should just about do it there. If Texas loses tonight, it leaves a real window for Oakland to still grab the division, as well. Shame for TB as they have such an incredible run differential and are on such a hot streak here. The perils of being an AL East team.

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Well, didn't take the Yanks long to stick the pressure back on the O's....7-0 in the 2nd v. Boston.

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Unbelievable! 6 runs for the A's when trailing 4, the lead (and 2 runs total) handed over by a Josh Hamilton dropped ball on a routine catch with 2 outs!

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A joke. The entire NL playoff run is now an entire joke. And again, it's because the umpires are a group of self-serving thugs. Disgusting joke.

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Worst call I have ever seen. I'm done with baseball.  them.

Me too. I hated everything about the NFL scandals recently, but this is something else. This is the final straw in a clear lack of care by both the MLB administration and it's literal gang of haughty evil (not incompetent, evil) umpires. The point can't be made while we still watch. I'm truly done with baseball through the MLB. Just means more soccer/independent baseball for me. I am not going to support this junk anymore.

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St Louis just won't die. . Goodbye Chipper!

You're an insult to the game. Won't miss sharing this league with you.

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No they wouldn't have.  A good fanbase isn't going to do what the idiots did last night.  A northeast team, sure.  Cubs, Oakland, sure.  Dodger fan wouldn't, because he's gone before the 8th inning.  But Cardinals fan?  No way.  Twins fan?  Not going to happen.  Reds, Brewers, probably not.

Any fanbase who gives that little a sh**t as to sit back and take that sh**t-eating-grin-umpire-ing is one of the problems with baseball, not the "good" fans. Fans loyal to these umps and this Front Office are enemies of baseball as a sport. I hate the Braves, but God bless their resistance.

They are sh**tty for never showing up to games, however.

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So who won the DSs?  Boycotting the playoffs* has given me a lot of free time.


* - This World Series champion will have to always have an asterisk next to it.  It's sad how one idiot can ruin an entire playoff and taint a championship that probably still would have been won by whoever wins...

Sorry, that's silly.

I can describe every World Series going back into at least the 1960s in some detail, but for the rest of my life, if someone asks me about 2012, I'll just say, "Oh, that one was tainted, so I never bothered to learn."

Yeah, I'm out for this playoffs as well. "The Call" and the umpires' and league's pride in not caring whether or not they made the right call or screwed anyone over was the climax of a building culture amongst the umpires that they are the show and that they matter more than the game and the actual results be damned so long as they end up in the paper and 'stick together.' And Selig can't be bothered to do anything because he's too busy sticking both hands over his ears and saying "Strange, I don't hear anyone saying that more instant replay would be a good thing!" It all has turned me off completely. I love the sport of baseball to my core. It sickens me what it looks like under these fools. I'm takin' in the local indy team next year, and if these clowns ever prove they care, I may come back, and I have every right to feel that way.