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Don't mind eight fewer games to guarantee a weekly off day. Those 18 games without an off day stretches are rough. "Pick your opponent" is clownish. Nothing like giving lower seeded playoff teams all the ammo they need to pull upsets while guising it as an advantage to the higher seeds. Feels reactionary to the AL stinking this year and the precious AL East teams getting bunched up against each other. I don't hate giving the 3 seed a little more than a pseudo-wild card berth, but there doesn't seem to be a great solution for that outside of going back to 5 teams which will never happen or expanding further which I hope doesn't happen. I'm sure we're headed for a 32 team league with 16 playoff teams and all best of 7 series so the postseason means little but lasts forever like the NBA and NHL.

Pratt about to get a Fanta endorsement for Mormon-approved parties.

Oh they celebrated and Bobby smokin' a fat one

On that note, this is 100% the move if we're trying to win a pennant and not limp into the NLCS again:

How huge this was cannot be understated. The person who said it meant we were done if we lost was not far off. A loss means we either win two in San Diego OR we have to win in five. Even if we manage that tough task, if Atlanta doesn't force LA to five it's just like last year with where LA has three days off and sets their rotation while Miz had to pitch in game five and we're probably done for. Now, just get one in San Diego and we're rested with Miz going in game one and ready to take on the Dodgers.

Extend Chourio!

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Was Chourio's fly ball the first out of the infield? At this rate we might even manage a baserunner by the 8th inning. Playoff offense back in action.

We are so back.

I feel like throwing fastballs down the middle would have resulted in a better outcome. Even if two guys knocked one out, it would still have taken far fewer than 57 pitches.

About as bad of a 0-0 first inning we could manage.

For our fans in attendance, please do not boo Machado over an eight year old slight. That always just motivates him and we don't need the fans spotting them a run or two.

There are probably six NL teams that didn't make the playoffs that would have won the AL West this year.

I remember going to a final game in the 2000s before getting over the hump of finally having a winning season. I was very annoyed that an usher kicked us out of a lower level section that we tried to sit in for a bit while making our way out since the whole section might have had 20 people in it in the later innings. The atmosphere and the team are a bit different these days.

Expected around 96 or so it would be another waiting game for the franchise record and unlikely to get to 100. Seems they didn't want to lose 60. An iconic regular season.