MLB stretch run and playoffs thread.

[Joe Biden 2020]

The NLCS will be a matchup of the last two World Series Champions.  The San Francisco Giants in 2010 and St Louis Cardinals in 2011.  It should be no secret who I will be rooting for.

[Хahar 🤔]

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.

[Psychic Octopus]

Time to put on the old Giants cap, I suppose. It would have been nice for the A's to make a run, but they have nothing to be ashamed of. Verlander is the best pitcher there is.

The NLCS will be a matchup of the last two World Series Champions.  The San Francisco Giants in 2010 and St Louis Cardinals in 2011.  It should be no secret who I will be rooting for.

And it is no secret as to who will win.

[© tweed]

I'm actually wearing a New York Giants cap right now.

[Franzl]

Time to put on the old Giants cap, I suppose. It would have been nice for the A's to make a run, but they have nothing to be ashamed of. Verlander is the best pitcher there is.

The NLCS will be a matchup of the last two World Series Champions.  The San Francisco Giants in 2010 and St Louis Cardinals in 2011.  It should be no secret who I will be rooting for.

And it is no secret as to who will win.

Don't be so sure. Baseball has such random results that anything can happen.

[© tweed]

Time to put on the old Giants cap, I suppose. It would have been nice for the A's to make a run, but they have nothing to be ashamed of. Verlander is the best pitcher there is.

The NLCS will be a matchup of the last two World Series Champions.  The San Francisco Giants in 2010 and St Louis Cardinals in 2011.  It should be no secret who I will be rooting for.

And it is no secret as to who will win.

Don't be so sure. Baseball has such random results that anything can happen.

the Cards have certainly elevated winning-while-not-being-the-better-team to an art form over the past several years.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Time to put on the old Giants cap, I suppose. It would have been nice for the A's to make a run, but they have nothing to be ashamed of. Verlander is the best pitcher there is.

The NLCS will be a matchup of the last two World Series Champions.  The San Francisco Giants in 2010 and St Louis Cardinals in 2011.  It should be no secret who I will be rooting for.

And it is no secret as to who will win.

Have you learned nothing from 2011?

[Franzl]

Let's be realistic here: Results in baseball are extremely random. The best teams win 60% of their games, the worst teams 40%. Who wins a 7 game series is not easily predictable.

[Psychic Octopus]

Time to put on the old Giants cap, I suppose. It would have been nice for the A's to make a run, but they have nothing to be ashamed of. Verlander is the best pitcher there is.

The NLCS will be a matchup of the last two World Series Champions.  The San Francisco Giants in 2010 and St Louis Cardinals in 2011.  It should be no secret who I will be rooting for.

And it is no secret as to who will win.

Have you learned nothing from 2011?

Ah, c'mon guys, I was kidding. I'm really looking forward to the NLCS. It should be really good.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Time to put on the old Giants cap, I suppose. It would have been nice for the A's to make a run, but they have nothing to be ashamed of. Verlander is the best pitcher there is.

The NLCS will be a matchup of the last two World Series Champions.  The San Francisco Giants in 2010 and St Louis Cardinals in 2011.  It should be no secret who I will be rooting for.

And it is no secret as to who will win.

Have you learned nothing from 2011?

Ah, c'mon guys, I was kidding. I'm really looking forward to the NLDS. It should be really good.

I wasn't bashing you, by any means.  I was just reminding people of the improbable Cardinals run in 2011.

[Хahar 🤔]

Pythagorean records:

San Francisco: 88-74
St. Louis: 93-69

The Cardinals aren't the worse team here.

[fezzyfestoon]

Mark this down as the first step in my becoming a real baseball fan; there's been a strongly negative swing in my opinion of the Yankees as a result of my beloved Orioles' unfortunate loss. There's a hint of passion there, it's up to the O's to build on that

[Associate Justice PiT]

Pythagorean records:

San Francisco: 88-74
St. Louis: 93-69

The Cardinals aren't the worse team here.

    Good news! The big winners are usually some mathematical runts who "should" have been knocked out in the first round, but just had too much heart to lose. It's gonna be us!

[Thomas D]

Nats in 5
SF in 4

Bal in 5
Det in 4

Well, clearly you all should listen to me.

Det in 7
SF in 7

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

there's been a strongly negative swing in my opinion of the Yankees

Good.

[© tweed]

Fister playing serious tap-dancer so far.

[Keystone Phil]

Haha wow. A shame that it's the Yankees but got to love Raul.

[© tweed]

Jeter out for year, Yanks down 1-0, Verlander twice lurking...

[Joe Biden 2020]

Jeter out for year, Yanks down 1-0, Verlander twice lurking...

I hate that for Jeter.  I don't like the Yankees, but Derek Jeter is one of my favorite players in all of baseball.  With his absence, the Yanks down 1-0, and Verlander up potentially twice, and A-Rod's apparent struggles, all of that doesn't spell good words for The Empire.  They're not out of it, but Detroit has to be licking their chops right about now!

[7,052,770]

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."

[Хahar 🤔]

[Speed of Sound]

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.

[Spanish Moss]

As a Blue Jays fan, I do not approve of this year's playoffs.

[dead0man]

As a Blue Jays fan, I do not approve of this year's playoffs.

But how do you feel about the playoffs this year?  Excited heh?

Anyway, sorry Giants fan, it was a nice season.  Good luck in the off season.

[Хahar 🤔]

Giants, Game 3: 14 baserunners, 1 run
Cardinals, Game 4: 15 baserunners, 8 runs

eep

It's okay, though; the Giants haven't lost in Barry Zito's last 12 starts.