Wild Card Round: game thread

[HarveysWBs]

10 minutes ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

Yeah, I've watched one inning of Dodger playoff baseball, and I'm already thinking I was a little crazy for wanting the two seed lol. It's (almost) October! Let the moment-by-moment emotional swings commence!

I have never once gambled on sports. I have my weaknesses like anyone else, but that’s never really been one for me.

However, down the stretch this year, I saw the Reds going off at 100:1 to win the pennant, and I thought, you know, they could get hot with some good starting pitching, sneak in, make a run. There’s always a team that does it, what’s the harm of dropping $10 or even a c-note on that? Could be an interesting rooting interest besides the Brewers.

So I get it cued up, then say to myself, “wait one night—if you still think it’s a good idea tomorrow, pull the trigger.”

Me the next day:

 

And I’m loving that decision. I’m enough of a wreck watching sports already. I don’t need that evil on me.

[bm1090]

Very happy we got the one seed and don’t have to deal with LA this weekend.

[markedman5]

More than happy to watch the Phillies and Dodgers duke it out.

 

[willie key]

Watching that Red Sox Yankees game and all i could think to myself was thank god we got a bye 

[adambr2]

Yeah I was hoping the randomness of L.A in a 3 game serious might allow for some craziness to see them shown the door early, but that is just not going to happen.

[markedman5]

12 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Yeah I was hoping the randomness of L.A in a 3 game serious might allow for some craziness to see them shown the door early, but that is just not going to happen.

Reds haven’t scored a run in the postseason since the Obama administration……

[adambr2]

5 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

Reds haven’t scored a run in the postseason since the Obama administration……

One of the Dodgers or Phillies will not be participating in the NLCS. So there is that.

[treego14]

2 hours ago, willie key said:

Baseball sure has changed in the past decade or two.    Red Sox Yankees playoff series would have taken over the national discussion on every channel

Now it’s just a regular series with not much hype.  I do wonder if the overbearing use of advanced stats when taking about baseball has turned off the casual fan on these talk shows etc.    

 

I think the casual baseball fan is almost nil nowadays 

Maybe the casual baseball fan grew uninterested with the Yankees/Red Sox hype machine.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Very glad knowing the Dodgers will be facing the Phillies in a best of 5 opposite the Brewers.

[TURBO]

2 hours ago, Brewluver said:

I'm hungry.

It's hard to stay hungry...

[willie key]

40 minutes ago, treego14 said:

Maybe the casual baseball fan grew uninterested with the Yankees/Red Sox hype machine.

Ok.   Give me when and where these casual fans are then.    

[Recovering Chicagoan]

1 hour ago, treego14 said:

Maybe the casual baseball fan grew uninterested with the Yankees/Red Sox hype machine.

As far as the East Coast is concerned, that's the only matchup that matters. 

[Recovering Chicagoan]

1 hour ago, markedman5 said:

Reds haven’t scored a run in the postseason since the Obama administration……

Yikes.

[Team Canada]

This is why the Dodgers are going to have issues winning 2 more series.

[BruisedCrew]

The program guide on Spectrum has “TBA at Milwaukee Brewers” at 8:30 PM on Monday.

Not exactly a convenient time for anyone who might want to attend the game but get home before 1 AM. 

[rickh150]

And Saturday slots on TBS (NL) look to be 12-3 and 6-9 on Spectrum guide…

[Team Canada]

36 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

The program guide on Spectrum has “TBA at Milwaukee Brewers” at 8:30 PM on Monday.

Not exactly a convenient time for anyone who might want to attend the game but get home before 1 AM. 

Ugh. Makes sense with Philly the other game, they're going to go first. 

At least on Wed. you'd think that Seattle will be the late game, I'd guess Brewers will be one of the afternoon games and Philly will be 5-6pm.

They should be the early game on Thurs as well assuming it's Philly@LA.

[BruisedCrew]

6 hours ago, rickh150 said:

And Saturday slots on TBS (NL) look to be 12-3 and 6-9 on Spectrum guide…

My guess for that is that the Brewers will be at noon with Phillies-Dodgers as the prime time game. 

[BruisedCrew]

6 hours ago, Team Canada said:

Ugh. Makes sense with Philly the other game, they're going to go first. 

At least on Wed. you'd think that Seattle will be the late game, I'd guess Brewers will be one of the afternoon games and Philly will be 5-6pm.

They should be the early game on Thurs as well assuming it's Philly@LA.

On Wednesday they have Phillies at 4 PM and Brewers at 7:30. I suppose those are all subject to change. By Thursday it’s “if necessary” territory so that would depend on who is still playing. 

FS1 just has several TBA slots where presumably the AL games will appear. 

[young guns]

I highly doubt any slots have been decided yet.  If San Diego comes back, that would open later slots for us, especially when we play at San Diego.  If it's cubs I'm sure we will be locked into the early slot with Seattle and LA(assuming they hold on) locked into later slots.

[Fear The Chorizo]

9 hours ago, Team Canada said:

This is why the Dodgers are going to have issues winning 2 more series.

If their offense is clicking, the back end bullpen guys arent going to be a concern at all for them.

[Team Canada]

20 minutes ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

If their offense is clicking, the back end bullpen guys arent going to be a concern at all for them.

Sure, you could say that for any team. If you're scoring 5+ runs a game, it largely won't matter. But that's usually not how the playoffs work, and I would be surprised if they make it to the WS because of how unreliable their bullpen is. 

[Fear The Chorizo]

11 minutes ago, Team Canada said:

Sure, you could say that for any team. If you're scoring 5+ runs a game, it largely won't matter. But that's usually not how the playoffs work, and I would be surprised if they make it to the WS because of how unreliable their bullpen is. 

The addition of Sasaki to their pen is very notable, and Treinen is rounding back into form - i think their Pen/walks is the obvious weakness, but its a tough thing to get to with a lead or an even ballgame consistently if they are hitting...when they can string together Snell, Yamamoto, and Ohtani in a playoff rotation with an offense that is going to be very difficult to shut down, they are going to be tough to beat.

[StearnsFTW]

1 hour ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

The addition of Sasaki to their pen is very notable, and Treinen is rounding back into form - i think their Pen/walks is the obvious weakness, but its a tough thing to get to with a lead or an even ballgame consistently if they are hitting...when they can string together Snell, Yamamoto, and Ohtani in a playoff rotation with an offense that is going to be very difficult to shut down, they are going to be tough to beat.

Meh.  I'll be surprised if they make the NLCS.

[wOOgiE22]

If the Yankees win we will be playing at 1pm Saturday. If the Red Sox win then we will be playing at 8pm.