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***2016 MLB Playoff thread: Cubs win for first time since sliced bread hit market (2 Viewers)

Jayson Heyward: only semi fast NL guy that can roll into a bunt DP with great frequency.  Got lucky there.

NUTTY INNING!  NUTTY I SAY!!!!

 
That was a terrible bunt, a sweet play by Smith, and another skipper by Crawford. Oh man. I want the Giants to win. I want to see Cueto/Lester

 
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Northern Voice said:
How did it remove the drama? The AL wild card came down to the last weekend. Toronto had to use their best pitcher in game 162 to get home field advantage. They had to win game 161 to clinch a spot in the wild card game. Having two spots adds drama by keeping the Houston, Seattle, New York etc... close in the race late, but in the end it still puts a lot of value on winning the division since the one game play in is such a crap shoot. It adds drama to the end of the regular season without devaluing winning a division or making the MLB playoffs a joke like NHL/NBA where so many marginal teams (more than half the league) make it.
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This year it did.  Other years the two wildcards are known early and the last few games are sandbagged.

If by adding drama, you mean keeping more teams "in it" who should be out of it... I get the point.  Just don't agree that's good for baseball.  Examples of big deltas in records (94 win Braves team plays 88 win Cardinals; 94 win Pirates team plays 90 win Reds). 

Not unusual for the "better" team to get knocked off.  One game?  That's not how baseball has been traditionally played.  And regardless of the winner, any wild card team goes into the next series with some disadvantage (travel/rotation, etc.)

 
People who don't enjoy baseball suck balls.  Way better than the stupid NBA, since we really don't know who is going to win.  amirite? 

 
Pete Rose is awful. Cubs have one of the greatest comebacks in postseason history and he's arguing how they'll be able to keep all these young players down the road.

#### off.

 
During the Joe Maddon press conference a writer told him that regardless of who the Cubs play in the Championship, they won't have to face either Scherzer or Kershaw in Game 1. Scherzer, obviously not, but I am assuming Kershaw would go on four full days of rest. 

 
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