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Major League Baseball 2017

TobyOne said:
Its embarrassing to even be in a Wild Card game. One hit, one error, one bad inning by a pitcher. Its all it takes.
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The WC game is what's keeping crowd size up for so many teams since school has been back in session for like us for 4 weeks; the bottom line.

I was fine with just one wild-card, though I'm against them playing their own division in the NLDS, as with possibly AZ v. LA, whether one or two wild-card teams. AZ should get a shot at WSH, if it were to come to that ...
 
NIMBY said:
The WC game is what's keeping crowd size up for so many teams since school has been back in session for like us for 4 weeks; the bottom line.

I was fine with just one wild-card, though I'm against them playing their own division in the NLDS, as with possibly AZ v. LA, whether one or two wild-card teams. AZ should get a shot at WSH, if it were to come to that ...
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I was fine with one wildcard, but I like having 2 better, because now teams have incentive to win the division, because they don't want to face a one game elimination game. When it was just one wildcard, teams didn't care about the difference between winning the division or winning the wildcard, because there really is no home field advantage in MLB postseason.
 
Back to you later. Long honey overdue list and HS football tonight ...

The Man said:
I was fine with one wildcard, but I like having 2 better, because now teams have incentive to win the division, because they don't want to face a one game elimination game. When it was just one wildcard, teams didn't care about the difference between winning the division or winning the wildcard, because there really is no home field advantage in MLB postseason.
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I don't think the Dodgers will win another game this year.



NIMBY said:
With the Nats 7 games behind the Dodgers who have Kershaw tonight, several injuries to Nats' players still healing, Dusty resting his players, and Dusty going to a 6-man rotation, the only way I see the Cubs playing the Dodgers in the NLDS is as the WC winner ...
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Just checking in on the Tribe's progress:

During the 17-game winning streak the Indians have outscored their opponents 118-30 (118-30!), and trailed in only four of 153 total innings. Two of those four innings came Saturday. The Orioles strung together three singles for a quick first inning run Saturday.
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TobyOne said:
I don't think the Dodgers will win another game this year.
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Still up 10, even though they are 1-9 while AZ is 9-1 over last 10. Damn. Good thing they were so hot all summer.
 
Cleveland wins again. 3-2 over the Birds.
 

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[h=1]Nationals' objectives now that they've won the NL East[/h]Washington may have won its division with three weeks to go, but the Nats have a full agenda of things they need to do to prep for the postseason.


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[h=1]Eddie MatzESPN Senior Writer [/h]The Nationals have clinched the NL East, giving them their fourth playoff berth in six years. It's the first time since coming to DC that they've made the postseason in back-to-back seasons. Thanks to the Dodgers' ongonig freefall, there's an outside chance that Washington - which has to crept to within 4.5 games of LA - could even get the top seed. It's the earliest NL clinch in 15 years.

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Cleveland up 8-0 on Detroit in the 5th. Number 19 looks like it'll be an easy W.
 
Greenbeard said:
These **** teams need to stop pegging the hitters.
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Hit a homerun, then get nailed by a bean ball (It looked like in the hand). I hope Jose Ramirez is OK.
 
calamity said:
Hit a homerun, then get nailed by a bean ball (It looked like in the hand). I hope Jose Ramirez is OK.
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I dreaded a Tigers-Carrasco match-up after what happened last year. So far we've only seen Kinsler (!) peg Santana in the back and Ramirez nailed twice.

**** these guys,
 
Greenbeard said:
I dreaded a Tigers-Carrasco match-up after what happened last year. So far we've only seen Kinsler (!) peg Santana in the back and Ramirez nailed twice.

**** these guys,
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Spanking them 11-0 seems like sweet enough revenge for me.
 
Indians go for 20. They're up 1-zip early.
 
2-0 final for number 20.

The stars really are aligned. :)
 
This is unfortunate. They got hot too early.

The Dodgers, you see, will get hot at just the right time.



calamity said:
2-0 final for number 20.

The stars really are aligned. :)
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TobyOne said:
This is unfortunate. They got hot too early.

The Dodgers, you see, will get hot at just the right time.
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I believe the Rockies had that problem about 10 years ago. They rattled off like 15 straight, 19 of 20 or something crazy like that, pretty much sweeping their way into the World Series. And then, they had to sit and wait a week while the AL team played 7.

Rockies never won another game. :lol:
 
calamity said:
I believe the Rockies had that problem about 10 years ago. They rattled off like 15 straight, 19 of 20 or something crazy like that, pretty much sweeping their way into the World Series. And then, they had to sit and wait a week while the AL team played 7.

Rockies never won another game. :lol:
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Point taken, but the Indians are truly a GOOD team, not just a team that happens to get hot for 1 year and got into the playoffs. They almost won the WS last year.
 
In praise of Dusty Baker.



. . . Deep breaths, please, all you people in San Francisco who remember the 2002 World Series, and those Cubs fans who blame Baker for breaking down your young pitchers (even though those pitchers, no longer young, don’t blame him). We are talking about the Baker we see now, a few months after his 68th birthday, steering his second Washington Nationals team to his second straight division title. We are talking about what he has done, what he is doing — and, yes, we’ll get to what he will do — in Washington. . . .
 
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