Balta1701

Well I got this one.

Bah the odds of this team making the playoffs are almost 100%. The question the rest of the year is how to be ready for Houston and Boston in October.

That escalated quickly.

Fwiw, the playoffs are always a different beast. IIRC there are regularly teams that beat up on losing teams during the season and then make runs through several series in the postseason.

June 27, Seattle.

How did no one score on that? Yeezus.

Regardless, that matchup will be different anyway. No Houston Buzzers or Lynn spidertack.

I don’t blame him this time. 2 outs, bottom of the order up, 104 pitches isn’t insane.

No.

Ty, my bad.

Not if they are in the same division. The Red Sox can’t play the Rays in the ALDS. Similarly, Houston can’t play the As. edit: technically, pending this result, all 3 teams are tied.

Bet you game 1 would be Rodon @ Greinke.

Will you bet that there will be no more major injuries on the White Sox this year?

Overall an extra 900,000 people died in the first 14 months of this pandemic more than die in a normal year in this country. A disturbingly large fraction of that death has been unnecessary. Please tell me how exactly this has been overestimated. I will grant I was wrong about the risk of surfaces early in this thing, if that’s what you want? https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/05/06/994287048/new-study-estimates-more-than-900-000-people-have-died-of-covid-19-in-u-s

If the season ended today this is the ALDS matchup.

So you’re saying he will be plan A at 4 positions and the first reliever out of the pen?

Whoa

Money says Lopez pitches tonight.

1. We make those threads about guys who were traded away to help turn a 73 win team into a 76 win team or a 76 win team into a 78 win team. 2. We also reserve the right to make those threads about any guys who were traded away for a pittance and immediately turned into the top prospect in all of baseball. A big difference right now...this is not a 4th place team! But yeah, if you trade away someone as a throw-in and then 12 months later they're the top prospect in baseball, you'd probably hear about them for a while again.

Schedule looks like it's back to the 2019 format. https://sportsnaut.com/mlb-playoffs-schedule-bracket-dates/

That was also the first series without the sticky stuff for those two.

I can almost guarantee we will see Lopez used late and in a tight game this week.

Maybe it’s Eloy coming up?