This thread is for the wildcard games

[Derwood]

Will update when starters are officially announced

[CyHawk_Cub]

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[jersey cubs fan]

Lets go mets

[imb]

that giants-mets game is going to be really good.

[Bigloubaby]

Rooting for the Mets (I guess). Just not sure they have enough offense to get it done.

 

Really want to give them a nice smack for last year.

And the Giants kinda scare me.

[mikeyt34]

The Mets rotation is pretty banged up so I guess I hope they advance. The Giants have the potential to throw Cueto twice and Madbaum once. But I like Jake's approach..."Who gives a horsefeathers".

[Sammys Boombox]

I'd be a big fan of somebody releasing one of those contingent upon who wins the Wild Card Games schedules for the LDS. I've got some travel plans to make.

[raw]

Part of me wants the Mets so the Cubs can exact some kind of revenge. Part of me wants the Giants because F their even year [expletive].

 

But either way, I'll be pretty confident going into this series. For all the talk about Cueto and Mad Bum 3 of 5 games, they have to face the Cubs pitchers too. The Giants best regular against the Cubs this season was Hunter Pence and his .640 OPS, thanks to 2 HRs in his 3 for 20.

[Irrelevant Dude]

When will game times be announced?

[David]

When will game times be announced?

 

This is the best I have...

 

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[bcl412]

It'd be fitting for a Cubs World Series run to go through the Mets.

[Omar]

It'd be fitting for a Cubs World Series run to go through the Mets.

 

followed by Dusty Baker

[Banedon]

You know, for weeks the baseball media has been talking about the GIants collapse, and how terribly they've played, then they play decent in the last week and now they're this scary underdog that nobody should want to play...

 

Make up your mind.

[BigSlick]

I don't like that wild card teams get several days to get their horsefeathers together and then another couple days before the DS. Play the day after the season, and then start the Divisional Series the next day.

 

I say this because I've been needing meaningful baseball for more than a month now.

[Omar]

maybe mlb wants to make the travel schedule easier

[jersey cubs fan]

This is the site showing all scheduled games. Both wild card game times are listed at 8pm (presumably eastern)

 

http://m.mlb.com/postseason-schedule

 

 

Tuesday, October 4

8:00 PM ALWC Orioles @ Blue Jays TBD at TBD

TBS / SNET

Wednesday, October 5

8:00 PM NLWC Giants @ Mets Bumgarner (0-0) at Syndergaard (0-0)

ESPN

Thursday, October 6

TBD ALDS Gm 1 Red Sox @ Indians Porcello (0-0) at Bauer (0-0)

TBS

TBD ALDS Gm 1 AL Wild Card @ Rangers TBD at TBD

TBS

Friday, October 7

TBD NLDS Gm 1 Dodgers @ Nationals Kershaw (0-0) at TBD

FS1 / MLBN

TBD NLDS Gm 1 NL Wild Card @ Cubs TBD at TBD

FS1 / MLBN

TBD ALDS Gm 2 Red Sox @ Indians Price (0-0) at Kluber (0-0)

TBS

TBD ALDS Gm 2 AL Wild Card @ Rangers TBD at TBD

TBS

Saturday, October 8

TBD NLDS Gm 2 Dodgers @ Nationals Hill (0-0) at TBD

FS1 / MLBN

TBD NLDS Gm 2 NL Wild Card @ Cubs TBD at TBD

FS1 / MLBN

[SouthSideRyan]

I don't like that wild card teams get several days to get their horsefeathers together and then another couple days before the DS. Play the day after the season, and then start the Divisional Series the next day.

 

I say this because I've been needing meaningful baseball for more than a month now.

 

It helps make it more likely they burn their best pitchers just like the Mets and Giants will do.

[UMFan83]

Taking a shot in the dark for Friday....I believe on the days with 4 games there are early afternoon, late afternoon, early evening and late evening time slots. I believe the games can overlap a bit if necessary (like one game starting 2 hours after another game).

 

Early Afternoon (1:07 CT?) - Blue Jays/Orioles at Rangers

Late Afternoon (3:37 CT?) - Dodgers at Nationals

Early Evening (6:07 CT?) - Red Sox at Indians

Late Evening (8:37 CT?) - Giants/Mets at Cubs

 

Reasoning:

-All home teams are eastern and central teams. Dodgers might end up being the only playoff team west of CT

-Because of this, it seems almost certainly that one of the CT home teams will be in the late evening time slot (assuming they won't start a game after 9PM local time in ET)

-That leaves Cubs or Rangers. The Jays, Orioles and Rangers have nowhere near the national interest of the Cubs, Giants and Mets. The Cubs will be the late slot.

-For the other games, if its the Blue Jays, they will almost certainly be early afternoon as a Canadian team doesn't move the dial as much on US TV without a local fanbase pumping up numbers. Even if its the Orioles, that series clearly has the least national teams involved.

-Complete guess on the other 2. Assuming the Red Sox would be ever so slightly more enticing for prime time than the Dodgers.

[Smack]

We better not get fucked with an afternoon game on Friday.

[Gilby]

FFS, release the times already. People have work to plan for.

[ScrubMD]

My sister's stupid wedding has the potential to really screw up my weekend. I don't know why she couldn't plan this around the strangers that I want to watch play games.

[David]

couldn't pick a thread for this so i'll just go with this one

 

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[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Really hoping that the Cubs get the late slot on Friday since I'm not leaving Louisiana until after work on Thursday.

[Sammys Boombox]

Really hoping that the Cubs get the late slot on Friday since I'm not leaving Louisiana until after work on Thursday.

 

Same. Except Kansas City.

[Andy]

My sister's stupid wedding has the potential to really screw up my weekend. I don't know why she couldn't plan this around the strangers that I want to watch play games.

I have a wedding to attend the weekend after this one and I live in fear of missing an NLCS game because of it. One thing at a time, though.