ghost of miles Posted Monday at 05:36 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 05:36 PM Here are the various scenarios (from the ESPN article I linked to above): What are the scenarios for each team to clinch a playoff spot? Let's run through these: 1. The Mets win the first game, the Braves win the second game. The Braves are the No. 5 seed and head to the No. 4 San Diego Padres for a best-of-three wild-card series starting Tuesday. The Mets are the No. 6 seed and play the No. 3 Milwaukee Brewers. Yes, that means the Mets would have gone from Milwaukee on Sunday to Atlanta on Monday, and then back to Milwaukee on Tuesday. (The Braves would have to fly cross-country, but at least they were already in Atlanta.) 2. If the Braves win the first game and the Mets win the second, it's the same result. The Braves are the No. 5 seed and the Mets are the No. 6 seed. 3. The Mets win both games. New York is the No. 5 seed and plays the Padres. The Diamondbacks are the No. 6 seed and play the Brewers in a rematch of last year's wild-card series. The Mets travel from Milwaukee to Atlanta to San Diego. (They won't complain.) 4. The Braves win both games. Atlanta is the No. 5 seed and plays the Padres; the Diamondbacks are the No. 6 seed and play the Brewers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted Monday at 08:14 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 08:14 PM Mets prevail in Game 1 .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted Monday at 08:24 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 08:24 PM Well that was a helluva game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted Monday at 08:35 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 08:35 PM Cannot believe six in the eighth and two in the ninth to win. Now we see if Mets try to be competitive or rest everybody and throw a bullpen game. At this point the Braves don't deserve to win and be in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted Monday at 08:51 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 08:51 PM Sale out due to muscle spasms. I wonder how happy Mets fans would be to eliminate the Braves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie87 Posted Monday at 09:18 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 09:18 PM Rooting for the Mets to win the second one here, though I don't really have an interest in the Mets specifically. But if they win the DBacks are in. I also don't have an interest in the DBacks, despite living in AZ. But if they get in, I'll have a chance to see the Phillies here locally. At least there's a chance in that case. That's what I'm hoping for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted Monday at 10:08 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 10:08 PM 49 minutes ago, Aggie87 said: Rooting for the Mets to win the second one here, though I don't really have an interest in the Mets specifically. But if they win the DBacks are in. I also don't have an interest in the DBacks, despite living in AZ. But if they get in, I'll have a chance to see the Phillies here locally. At least there's a chance in that case. That's what I'm hoping for. Strategic rooting at its finest. <green smilie here> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted Monday at 10:43 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 10:43 PM Braves up 1-0 in the bottom of the 7th. If they hold on, would this be the first time two teams facing each other on the same day have each clinched a playoff spot with a win? Braves just went up 3-0. If they do end up winning, we are going to see two teams clinching a playoff spot by defeating the other and celebrating on the same field on the same day, and both teams finishing with the same record (89-73) for the season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie87 Posted Monday at 10:52 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 10:52 PM (edited) Hey we went to multiple Phillies games every season while living there. After moving out to the desert last year, we've had one series vs the DBacks each regular season, and attended 3 of the 4 games each time. This year we got to take our 10 month old grandson to his first Phillies game as well. Plus last year the Phillies played (and were upset by) the DBacks in the postseason, and we went to multiple games for that as well. I'm just hopeful we can do the same this season if it works out. We take what we can get! Strategic rooting is important! Edited Tuesday at 02:14 AM by Aggie87 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted Monday at 11:13 PM Author Report Share Posted Monday at 11:13 PM I can't decide which locker room celebration to watch. Guess I'll go fill up one of the cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted Monday at 11:30 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 11:30 PM Pete Rose has died, Twitter posters say. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10137500-pete-rose-dies-at-83-all-time-mlb-hit-leader-won-3-world-series-with-reds-phillies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted Monday at 11:57 PM Author Report Share Posted Monday at 11:57 PM I took the under @85. I win! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted Tuesday at 12:20 AM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 12:20 AM My brother was a big fan, me not so much, but he was an avatar of 1970s baseball, an era I love to think back on now (and watch clips from on YouTube). Speaking of 1970s icons, I just read a brilliant 1987 piece on Reggie Jackson by David Remnick, who'd go on to become the editor of the New Yorker. "Mr. October's September Song" is included in the Library of America's Major League Baseball Anthology, as well as Remnick's collection The Devil Problem. Highly recommended, as good (if much more expansive in its scope) as John Updike's famous elegy for Ted Williams, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted Tuesday at 12:39 AM Author Report Share Posted Tuesday at 12:39 AM The Ray Fosse thing...I was watching that game. It was brutal, and AFAIK, he never as much as expressed regret. I mean, I get it, but... evolve, motherfucker, evolve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted Tuesday at 04:43 AM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 04:43 AM No one has mentioned that the Pale Hose broke the Mets' record for losses. They finished 41 - 121 .253 51.5 games back of Cleveland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted Wednesday at 02:50 AM Author Report Share Posted Wednesday at 02:50 AM That was a damn good day of baseball!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted Wednesday at 05:20 AM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 05:20 AM Michael King (!!) .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted Wednesday at 05:03 PM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 05:03 PM 14 hours ago, JSngry said: That was a damn good day of baseball!!! Indeed it was! Nail-biting ending to the Tigers-Astros game, with a great trivia twist. Going into the ninth inning, Houston was down 3-0. Since 1990, what's the postseason record of teams entering the final inning with such a deficit or more? 1-538. The only team in the past 24 years to surmount a three-run lead or more in the 9th inning was the 2016 Chicago Cubs, a team that included Jason Heyward on their roster. And Heyward made the final out in yesterday's game--a smoked line-drive that, if not caught, could well have cleared the bases and made Houston only the second postseason team to storm back from a three-run deficit in the ninth in a quarter of a century. Instead, Heyward and his teammates became a part of loss 539. Huzzah! I am definitely rooting for Detroit in this series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted Wednesday at 05:19 PM Author Report Share Posted Wednesday at 05:19 PM A Detroit-Milwaukee WS would be a ratings juggernaut!!!! Or Cleveland - Milwaukee! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie87 Posted Wednesday at 05:46 PM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 05:46 PM 23 minutes ago, JSngry said: A Detroit-Milwaukee WS would be a ratings juggernaut!!!! Or Cleveland - Milwaukee! Couldn't be worse than the Rangers/DBags last year, could it? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/business/media/world-series-ratings.html#:~:text=The five games averaged 9.1,of 9.8 million in 2020. Whoever it is, I'll just hope for competitive baseball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted Wednesday at 05:51 PM Author Report Share Posted Wednesday at 05:51 PM I'd imagine that the accounting types in MLB are hoping for the likely Yankees-Dodgers series, but eeew, gross. Make into a Marvel Movie, ok? MLB has no idea how to pimp their smaller market teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted Wednesday at 05:56 PM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 05:56 PM 3 minutes ago, JSngry said: I'd imagine that the accounting types in MLB are hoping for the likely Yankees-Dodgers series, but eeew, gross. Make into a Marvel Movie, ok? MLB has no idea how to pimp their smaller market teams. There is a limit to how much pimping can be done. Even if somehow pimped effectively a Yankees/Dodgers series would attract more eyeballs. Way more eyeballs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted Wednesday at 06:00 PM Author Report Share Posted Wednesday at 06:00 PM Hungry Zombie Eyeballs!!!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted Wednesday at 09:13 PM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 09:13 PM Astros down three with six outs to go. GoM might get his wish - Yankee kryptonite eliminated. (I say this only hoping to jinx it.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted Wednesday at 10:29 PM Author Report Share Posted Wednesday at 10:29 PM Astros got the Division only because the AL West was truly shitty this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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