2024 Other Games/Playoffs

[soccer10k]

Mets have scored 19 of their 23 runs in this series in innings 6-9.

[Derwood]

Phillies out (shocking). Freeman out for game 4 of LA/SD

[SpongeWorthy]

1 hour ago, CubinNY said:

Every fan from every other team besides the one the Dodgers are playing should be rooting for the Dodgers. The owners and administrators do everything a fan could want to try to win. 

nah im good

[SpongeWorthy]

the dodgers appear to be starting a 36 year old career minor leaguer in an elimination game 

[Irrelevant Dude]

Where do the Phillies go from here?    Keep running it back and hope the playoff dice roll in their favor next year?

[Sammy Sofa]

https://www.stereogum.com/2283074/the-baseball-project-oh-oh-ohtani/music/

 

[JHBulls]

If the baseball thing doesn’t work out for Dylan Cease, there’s A Fistful of Dollars remake with his name on it. 

[squally1313]

2 hours ago, CubinNY said:

Every fan from every other team besides the one the Dodgers are playing should be rooting for the Dodgers. The owners and administrators do everything a fan could want to try to win. 

Counterpoint, the Padres are horsefeathers sweet

[squally1313]

1 hour ago, UMFan83 said:

Baseball continues to have the most random results of any playoffs. I imagine it makes it so hard to get excited about your team being in it until you get to the NLCS because their first 2 rounds are just so random. At least that’s how I’d feel if my team ever made it. It doesn’t matter how great your team is or how few holes you have, you can be out of it in the blink of an eye.

As a neutral, this makes the playoffs much more exciting.  But as lame as I know this sounds, I almost wish we went back to 8 team playoffs.  Division winners and 1 WC per league.  The results would still be random as hell but at least you can narrow down the randomness to only having the top 4 teams (more or less) participating in said randomness.

 

 

If baseball is comfortable with the 3 game first round, they should be fine making the divisional series 7 games. Basketball and hockey do four rounds of it and it works just fine. Cut a wild card team to bring it down to 2 per league, make them play one game the day before game 1 of the divisional series. 

[Bertz]

2 hours ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

Where do the Phillies go from here?    Keep running it back and hope the playoff dice roll in their favor next year?

Really depends on ownership/payroll.  Their payroll heading into the winter is a bit north of where it was this year.  And all they're losing to FA is a couple relievers.  So if they are willing to push payroll up $20M or more from where it was this year they can run a pretty similar team out there next year.

If Dombrowski already pushed payroll to its (self imposed) limit, they have to make some tough choices.  Trade Schwarber or blow up the bullpen most likely?

They definitely don't need to do anything drastic like blow it up.  They've got a pretty decent amount of young talent, and Walker/Castellanos are their only contracts completely under water.

[UMFan83]

4 hours ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

Where do the Phillies go from here?    Keep running it back and hope the playoff dice roll in their favor next year?

That’s all you really can do right?  The Dodgers won 100 games last year but since they went out in the NLDS they decided to sign a first ballot inner circle HOFer AND one of the highest regarded Japanese pitchers ever to come over not to mention crapload of other moves to shore up every possible hole that they could find and as a result they are still 1 bad game away from going out in the NLDS again. 
 

Just need a ticket to the show and while it’s not a complete crapshoot, once you get there you just hope that the luck goes your way. The Phillies have a team that’s good enough to mostly run back and get another chance next year so I’m guessing that’s what they’ll do

[gflore34]

7 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

That’s all you really can do right?  The Dodgers won 100 games last year but since they went out in the NLDS they decided to sign a first ballot inner circle HOFer AND one of the highest regarded Japanese pitchers ever to come over not to mention crapload of other moves to shore up every possible hole that they could find and as a result they are still 1 bad game away from going out in the NLDS again. 
 

Just need a ticket to the show and while it’s not a complete crapshoot, once you get there you just hope that the luck goes your way. The Phillies have a team that’s good enough to mostly run back and get another chance next year so I’m guessing that’s what they’ll do

In some aspects it's like the NCAA tournament match-ups, match-ups, just keep getting there until the match-up dominoes fall in your favor.

[Brian707]

20 hours ago, CubinNY said:

Every fan from every other team besides the one the Dodgers are playing should be rooting for the Dodgers. The owners and administrators do everything a fan could want to try to win. 

[cl smooth]

Horrible camera angle in today’s tigers/guardians game. 

[Derwood]

Guardians hold off the Tigers to force Game 5

[Stratos]

On 10/9/2024 at 7:59 PM, UMFan83 said:

Baseball continues to have the most random results of any playoffs. I imagine it makes it so hard to get excited about your team being in it until you get to the NLCS because their first 2 rounds are just so random. At least that’s how I’d feel if my team ever made it. It doesn’t matter how great your team is or how few holes you have, you can be out of it in the blink of an eye.

As a neutral, this makes the playoffs much more exciting.  But as lame as I know this sounds, I almost wish we went back to 8 team playoffs.  Division winners and 1 WC per league.  The results would still be random as hell but at least you can narrow down the randomness to only having the top 4 teams (more or less) participating in said randomness.

They need to make the 1st 2 rounds more games.  162 games and then 2 of 3 or 3 of 5 is just nonsensical.  If they need to take a week off the regular season or add more rest days during the season just do it.

[Derwood]

Royals out

[soccer10k]

So we're going to get Yankees against either the Mets or Dodgers in the WS aren't we.

[CubinNY]

10 hours ago, soccer10k said:

So we're going to get Yankees against either the Mets or Dodgers in the WS aren't we.

Best outcome possible to shut up all the "you don't need to spend money to win" horsefeatherss.

[jersey cubs fan]

15 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

Best outcome possible to shut up all the "you don't need to spend money to win" horsefeatherss.

Padres aren’t exactly penny pinchers. Aggressive front offices had a good showing. 

[UMFan83]

12 hours ago, soccer10k said:

So we're going to get Yankees against either the Mets or Dodgers in the WS aren't we.

Honestly I know its the Yankees and their not exactly my top choice to make the WS, but its been 15 years since they've been in it.  I don't hate the idea of them making it and seeing Judge, Soto, etc on the biggest stage.  I realize that not all will agree.

The Dodgers can horsefeathers themselves

Edited October 11, 2024 by UMFan83

[squally1313]

Let's maybe wait until the Tigers, with their entire playoff roster making when Jameson Taillon does, gets eliminated before we start thinking the owners are going to learn a lesson of some sort here. 

[squally1313]

5 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Honestly I know its the Yankees and their not exactly my top choice to make the WS, but its been 15 years since they've been in it.  I don't hate the idea of them making it and seeing Judge, Soto, etc on the biggest stage.  I realize that not all will agree.

The Dodgers can horsefeathers themselves

Yeah I don't know if this is getting old/old and soft or what, but like...Soto and Judge are a ton of fun. And as a fan of a big market team, give me the prestige that comes with the best teams of this current generation going at each other. This Guardians/Tigers series is fun, but it's fun in the way that like, I tune into the College World Series and pick a team based on some reliever (except in this example Jose Ramirez is also there). 

The Dodgers have been doing this forever and I certainly strongly dislike a lot of their bit players (Edman, Muncy, Kopech, Treinen especially)....but Shohei/Mookie/Freeman is about as good as it gets. The Padres are universally great and I hope Darvish shoves tonight. But it's probably fine either way. 

[Andy]

13 hours ago, Stratos said:

They need to make the 1st 2 rounds more games.  162 games and then 2 of 3 or 3 of 5 is just nonsensical.  If they need to take a week off the regular season or add more rest days during the season just do it.

There's no reasonable amount of games that will make those series less random. If you want less random playoffs you need to let fewer teams in. That's it. No other solution will regularly produce the best teams at the end.

[Brian707]

Go back to pre 1969 postseason to eliminate the randomness is the only true option.