2023 LDS Game/Discussion Thread
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Been like this for a while. Surely you remember the 06 Cardinals and 07 Rockies. Baseball should really just embrace it at this point, shorten the regular season to 100ish games, and then expand the playoffs to 16 teams. Good luck with that, I guess.
I might be out on this year, pretty sure it ends with Houston sweeping Arizona and I’ll hate it. Would love to be wrong!
The NFL and NCAA playoffs are all single game elimination affairs. You have to draw the line somewhere.
At some point we have to recognize that playoff baseball and regular season baseball are two distinct things. It’s generally recognized in hockey.
TWO bathtubs, one for the man, the other for a woman. That one was aimed at women, I think.
I mean, wasn't it 20 years ago that Billy Beane declared that his shit didn't work in the playoffs?
And long before the '06 Cardinals, the 82-79 '73 Mets knocked off the 99-63 Big Red Machine in the NLCS. It's always been true to some degree, at least since MLB went to divisions in 1969.
Being pretty sure how it all will play out after Division Series game 1’s is seriously clairvoyant
Exactly. I’m sick of the “playoffs are a crap shoot” theory. The ‘06 Cardinals were aided by a very injured Mets team and deer in the headlights Tiger team, but were the better team in each of their matchups
Don’t use regular season wins to determine who should win a playoff series.
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Both announcers are in love with the Os starting pitcher. Tone it down! Got 27 pitches out of him in the first anyway.
I know the announcer called it that, but, strictly speaking, a Baltimore chop bounces off the plate and goes a lot higher because of the hard rubber and the runner is generally safe.
It doesn’t have to be off the plate. It is called a Baltimore chop because they used to pack the dirt hard in front of the plate.
https://www.mlb.com/glossary/idioms/baltimore-chop
OK, and I honestly was thinking it was done for Wee Willie Keeler before reading the article.
Baltimore just doesn't have the pitching yet for October. It's why losing 3-2 yesterday was so brutal
Nope. Couldn’t get a ticket for less than $120 that was decent and that was my cutoff.
O’s fans regret not lowering costs.