***Official - 2025 Major League Baseball Thread (3 Viewers)

[Deamon]

The entire city of Philadelphia just let out a gasp that could be heard in Alaska.

I'm worried. Does he seem ok?

 

[Insein]

Dear God no!

 

[Long Ball Larry]

The entire city of Philadelphia just let out a gasp that could be heard in Alaska.

I'm worried. Does he seem ok?

Not really

But it’s hard to know

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Well he’s back in the dugout

 

[Insein]

Really need another run here.

 

[Insein]

Looks like Harper is coming out to the field.

 

[Snotbubbles]

Don’t ask about Charlie hayes or Luis aguayo , because I’m not sure…

Charlie is still alive. He was at the Scott Rolen Wall of Fame induction.

 

[General Malaise]

 

[FishTacoTuesday]

Every Tigers fan gasped when they found out Soto was coming back for the 9th. A walk and hit was the only possible outcome there.

 

[Deamon]

I'm so fugging nervous

 

[scorchy]

This is taking years off my life.

 

[Insein]

Oh God Strahm.

 

[FishTacoTuesday]

Oh man, Pillar really got into that one. Great play short!

 

[Deamon]

I'm not okay.

 

[Insein]

Woooooooo!

 

[FishTacoTuesday]

The deep starting pitching got the Phillies through. D’backs have good starters also, and their bullpen is super suspect.

Tough out for the Braves but they had their chances in this series.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Atta boy, braves.

I’m just happy that strider won’t have to worry about being front of fans for months now. Loser energy

 

[belljr]

Ho hum

 

[need2know]

Whoooooooo!

 

[Deamon]

**** YES!

KNOCK OUT THE BEST TEAM IN BASEBALL!

HARPER IS OKAY!

I DONT HAVE TO WATCH A GAME 5 FROM THE BEAVERS/UCLA GAME!

LFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!

 

[fred_1_15301]

Dback/Phils game 1 not until Monday. Surprised there is such a long break.

 

[Deamon]

Dback/Phils game 1 not until Monday. Surprised there is such a long break.

$500 a seat for the Philly home games... $100 a seat for the Arizona home games. I think I'm gonna fly to Phoenix.

 

[belljr]

Strider....more like paper tiger.....amirite

 

[fred_1_15301]

Strider....more like paper tiger.....amirite

His K/9 is always going to be out of the world but he did have a bit of a letdown season considering all the enormous potential. Still - not too many guys can get away with that stache. I’m sure he’s very successful with the ladies and maybe that’s what matters the most to him.

 

[fred_1_15301]

And why are you guys all ripping Strider anyways. He was one of the better Braves players in this series. How about putting blame on the hottest hitting regular season team who didn’t even show up in this series (with the exception of Riley)?

 

[FreeBaGeL]

So if I'm looking at this right, with the Braves out now none of the teams with the 5 best records in baseball made the LCS this year.

Three teams tied with the 6th best record and the 12th best record

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Philly fans might regret all the "We Want Strider" chants last night. That's some bad ju-ju.

Narrator: They did not.

 

[Deamon]

Got game 5 tix, flying to phoenix. Lets go!

 

[Capella]

So if I'm looking at this right, with the Braves out now none of the teams with the 5 best records in baseball made the LCS this year.

Three teams tied with the 6th best record and the 12th best record

I read the 4 best teams - Braves, Dodgers, Orioles and Rays won 1 combined game. Crazy.

 

[CletiusMaximus]

So if I'm looking at this right, with the Braves out now none of the teams with the 5 best records in baseball made the LCS this year.

Three teams tied with the 6th best record and the 12th best record

I read the 4 best teams - Braves, Dodgers, Orioles and Rays won 1 combined game. Crazy.

The Brewers were 5th best with 92 regular season wins and won zero playoff games so it’s one win from the top 5.

 

[fred_1_15301]

Maybe they’ll go back to a 1 game wildcard.

 

[Deamon]

Maybe they’ll go back to a 1 game wildcard.

How would that change things? All the same teams would have advanced. If anything, I think there would be more upsets in a 1 game.

 

[culdeus]

Why such a long wait?

 

[fred_1_15301]

Maybe they’ll go back to a 1 game wildcard.

How would that change things? All the same teams would have advanced. If anything, I think there would be more upsets in a 1 game.

There is a theory that the top teams had too long of a break and were rusty. It’s certainly a possibility.

 

[Deamon]

Why such a long wait?

I'm assuming because the dates for the conf Championships were set in stone, and game 5s would have been as late as saturday

 

[Deamon]

Maybe they’ll go back to a 1 game wildcard.

How would that change things? All the same teams would have advanced. If anything, I think there would be more upsets in a 1 game.

There is a theory that the top teams had too long of a break and were rusty. It’s certainly a possibility.

Fair enough, they could play into it. Still think overall less upsets when a series goes longer.

Not sure why upsets are an issue anyways though.

 

[need2know]

Maybe they’ll go back to a 1 game wildcard.

How would that change things? All the same teams would have advanced. If anything, I think there would be more upsets in a 1 game.

There is a theory that the top teams had too long of a break and were rusty. It’s certainly a possibility.

Whatever. Show up and play. 3 out of 5.

 

[fred_1_15301]

Maybe they’ll go back to a 1 game wildcard.

How would that change things? All the same teams would have advanced. If anything, I think there would be more upsets in a 1 game.

There is a theory that the top teams had too long of a break and were rusty. It’s certainly a possibility.

Fair enough, they could play into it. Still think overall less upsets when a series goes longer.

Not sure why upsets are an issue anyways though.

To be fair, the Phillies and D backs dominated their respective series so thoroughly that I don’t think the opposing fans have much to complain about.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Maybe they’ll go back to a 1 game wildcard.

How would that change things? All the same teams would have advanced. If anything, I think there would be more upsets in a 1 game.

There is a theory that the top teams had too long of a break and were rusty. It’s certainly a possibility.

Fair enough, they could play into it. Still think overall less upsets when a series goes longer.

Not sure why upsets are an issue anyways though.

To be fair, the Phillies and D backs dominated their respective series so thoroughly that I don’t think the opposing fans have much to complain about.

The Braves led for all of 2.5 innings over 4 games. I don't think the Dodgers led at all.

 

[Capella]

So if I'm looking at this right, with the Braves out now none of the teams with the 5 best records in baseball made the LCS this year.

Three teams tied with the 6th best record and the 12th best record

I read the 4 best teams - Braves, Dodgers, Orioles and Rays won 1 combined game. Crazy.

The Brewers were 5th best with 92 regular season wins and won zero playoff games so it’s one win from the top 5.

The baseball playoffs are incredibly stupid but I guess you just have to accept that as part of the deal? Honestly maybe more teams should take it easy in the regular season, in the least it doesn’t seem to indicate playoff success in this format. It’s not 1993 anymore where you went right to the LCS.

 

[dino259]

So if I'm looking at this right, with the Braves out now none of the teams with the 5 best records in baseball made the LCS this year.

Three teams tied with the 6th best record and the 12th best record

I read the 4 best teams - Braves, Dodgers, Orioles and Rays won 1 combined game. Crazy.

The Brewers were 5th best with 92 regular season wins and won zero playoff games so it’s one win from the top 5.

The baseball playoffs are incredibly stupid but I guess you just have to accept that as part of the deal? Honestly maybe more teams should take it easy in the regular season, in the least it doesn’t seem to indicate playoff success in this format. It’s not 1993 anymore where you went right to the LCS.

Just a weird contrast. Play the longest regular season with sooooooo many games then short series in the playoffs. They need to find a way to shorten back to the 154 game regular season season to allow the longer playoff series.

Even though there were a lot of upsets, it is not like the other teams in the playoffs are trash. You still had to play some good baseball to get into the playoffs. You also generally go from 5 or 6 starting pitchers down to most likely 3.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

So if I'm looking at this right, with the Braves out now none of the teams with the 5 best records in baseball made the LCS this year.

Three teams tied with the 6th best record and the 12th best record

I read the 4 best teams - Braves, Dodgers, Orioles and Rays won 1 combined game. Crazy.

The Brewers were 5th best with 92 regular season wins and won zero playoff games so it’s one win from the top 5.

The baseball playoffs are incredibly stupid but I guess you just have to accept that as part of the deal? Honestly maybe more teams should take it easy in the regular season, in the least it doesn’t seem to indicate playoff success in this format. It’s not 1993 anymore where you went right to the LCS.

The best solution for this situation that I have read is this:

After listening to Bob Costas and other angry Dodgers fans complaining about the MLB playoff format, I realized how unfair the setup really is to teams like the Dodgers, so I spent some time scheming up my own MLB playoff format:

-The team with the best record always plays the team with the worst record. Period. The good team didn’t win all those games and make the playoffs only to have to face a challenging opponent, come on, give them a break.

-Playoff series are no longer best of 3 or 5. Instead, both teams will play an infinite amount of games, UNTIL the team with the better record wins 4, at which point they are declared the winner. It’s unfair for the better team to have to be better for fewer games, so they deserve more chances to prove they are in fact better.

-the playoffs are just for fun, the team with the best regular season record that “is a genuinely better team” will receive the trophy at the end of the season. I believe this is the most fair and reasonable way to do it. Since horrible, fluke teams like the #Dbacks can easily beat better, juggernaut teams like the Dodgers in fewer games, so the better teams need as much room and freedom as possible. I mean hell, they’re the better team, so why should they have to play well?

@Alexdagaz on twitter

 

[Capella]

So if I'm looking at this right, with the Braves out now none of the teams with the 5 best records in baseball made the LCS this year.

Three teams tied with the 6th best record and the 12th best record

I read the 4 best teams - Braves, Dodgers, Orioles and Rays won 1 combined game. Crazy.

The Brewers were 5th best with 92 regular season wins and won zero playoff games so it’s one win from the top 5.

The baseball playoffs are incredibly stupid but I guess you just have to accept that as part of the deal? Honestly maybe more teams should take it easy in the regular season, in the least it doesn’t seem to indicate playoff success in this format. It’s not 1993 anymore where you went right to the LCS.

The best solution for this situation that I have read is this:

After listening to Bob Costas and other angry Dodgers fans complaining about the MLB playoff format, I realized how unfair the setup really is to teams like the Dodgers, so I spent some time scheming up my own MLB playoff format:

-The team with the best record always plays the team with the worst record. Period. The good team didn’t win all those games and make the playoffs only to have to face a challenging opponent, come on, give them a break.

-Playoff series are no longer best of 3 or 5. Instead, both teams will play an infinite amount of games, UNTIL the team with the better record wins 4, at which point they are declared the winner. It’s unfair for the better team to have to be better for fewer games, so they deserve more chances to prove they are in fact better.

-the playoffs are just for fun, the team with the best regular season record that “is a genuinely better team” will receive the trophy at the end of the season. I believe this is the most fair and reasonable way to do it. Since horrible, fluke teams like the #Dbacks can easily beat better, juggernaut teams like the Dodgers in fewer games, so the better teams need as much room and freedom as possible. I mean hell, they’re the better team, so why should they have to play well?

@Alexdagaz on twitter

Lol funny post but I would be ok with a regular-season trophy and having the playoffs be its own thing? Hockey does that though and nobody cares and I suppose rightfully so. Everybody knows the stakes.

 

[fred_1_15301]

So if I'm looking at this right, with the Braves out now none of the teams with the 5 best records in baseball made the LCS this year.

Three teams tied with the 6th best record and the 12th best record

I read the 4 best teams - Braves, Dodgers, Orioles and Rays won 1 combined game. Crazy.

The Brewers were 5th best with 92 regular season wins and won zero playoff games so it’s one win from the top 5.

The baseball playoffs are incredibly stupid but I guess you just have to accept that as part of the deal? Honestly maybe more teams should take it easy in the regular season, in the least it doesn’t seem to indicate playoff success in this format. It’s not 1993 anymore where you went right to the LCS.

The best solution for this situation that I have read is this:

After listening to Bob Costas and other angry Dodgers fans complaining about the MLB playoff format, I realized how unfair the setup really is to teams like the Dodgers, so I spent some time scheming up my own MLB playoff format:

-The team with the best record always plays the team with the worst record. Period. The good team didn’t win all those games and make the playoffs only to have to face a challenging opponent, come on, give them a break.

-Playoff series are no longer best of 3 or 5. Instead, both teams will play an infinite amount of games, UNTIL the team with the better record wins 4, at which point they are declared the winner. It’s unfair for the better team to have to be better for fewer games, so they deserve more chances to prove they are in fact better.

-the playoffs are just for fun, the team with the best regular season record that “is a genuinely better team” will receive the trophy at the end of the season. I believe this is the most fair and reasonable way to do it. Since horrible, fluke teams like the #Dbacks can easily beat better, juggernaut teams like the Dodgers in fewer games, so the better teams need as much room and freedom as possible. I mean hell, they’re the better team, so why should they have to play well?

@Alexdagaz on twitter

Lol funny post but I would be ok with a regular-season trophy and having the playoffs be its own thing? Hockey does that though and nobody cares and I suppose rightfully so. Everybody knows the stakes.

Hockey has a regular season trophy? Does it mean anything? To anyone? Other than of course the team who ended up with the best record.

 

[Capella]

So if I'm looking at this right, with the Braves out now none of the teams with the 5 best records in baseball made the LCS this year.

Three teams tied with the 6th best record and the 12th best record

I read the 4 best teams - Braves, Dodgers, Orioles and Rays won 1 combined game. Crazy.

The Brewers were 5th best with 92 regular season wins and won zero playoff games so it’s one win from the top 5.

The baseball playoffs are incredibly stupid but I guess you just have to accept that as part of the deal? Honestly maybe more teams should take it easy in the regular season, in the least it doesn’t seem to indicate playoff success in this format. It’s not 1993 anymore where you went right to the LCS.

The best solution for this situation that I have read is this:

After listening to Bob Costas and other angry Dodgers fans complaining about the MLB playoff format, I realized how unfair the setup really is to teams like the Dodgers, so I spent some time scheming up my own MLB playoff format:

-The team with the best record always plays the team with the worst record. Period. The good team didn’t win all those games and make the playoffs only to have to face a challenging opponent, come on, give them a break.

-Playoff series are no longer best of 3 or 5. Instead, both teams will play an infinite amount of games, UNTIL the team with the better record wins 4, at which point they are declared the winner. It’s unfair for the better team to have to be better for fewer games, so they deserve more chances to prove they are in fact better.

-the playoffs are just for fun, the team with the best regular season record that “is a genuinely better team” will receive the trophy at the end of the season. I believe this is the most fair and reasonable way to do it. Since horrible, fluke teams like the #Dbacks can easily beat better, juggernaut teams like the Dodgers in fewer games, so the better teams need as much room and freedom as possible. I mean hell, they’re the better team, so why should they have to play well?

@Alexdagaz on twitter

Lol funny post but I would be ok with a regular-season trophy and having the playoffs be its own thing? Hockey does that though and nobody cares and I suppose rightfully so. Everybody knows the stakes.

Hockey has a regular season trophy? Does it mean anything? To anyone? Other than of course the team who ended up with the best record.

I don’t think it means anything even to the team that wins it. But yes, it’s called the President’s Trophy.

 

[Gr00vus]

Either you've got the deepest, hottest, healthiest pitching staff in October/November or you don't. The end.

 

[General Malaise]

So if I'm looking at this right, with the Braves out now none of the teams with the 5 best records in baseball made the LCS this year.

Three teams tied with the 6th best record and the 12th best record

I read the 4 best teams - Braves, Dodgers, Orioles and Rays won 1 combined game. Crazy.

The Brewers were 5th best with 92 regular season wins and won zero playoff games so it’s one win from the top 5.

The baseball playoffs are incredibly stupid but I guess you just have to accept that as part of the deal? Honestly maybe more teams should take it easy in the regular season, in the least it doesn’t seem to indicate playoff success in this format. It’s not 1993 anymore where you went right to the LCS.

The best solution for this situation that I have read is this:

After listening to Bob Costas and other angry Dodgers fans complaining about the MLB playoff format, I realized how unfair the setup really is to teams like the Dodgers, so I spent some time scheming up my own MLB playoff format:

-The team with the best record always plays the team with the worst record. Period. The good team didn’t win all those games and make the playoffs only to have to face a challenging opponent, come on, give them a break.

-Playoff series are no longer best of 3 or 5. Instead, both teams will play an infinite amount of games, UNTIL the team with the better record wins 4, at which point they are declared the winner. It’s unfair for the better team to have to be better for fewer games, so they deserve more chances to prove they are in fact better.

-the playoffs are just for fun, the team with the best regular season record that “is a genuinely better team” will receive the trophy at the end of the season. I believe this is the most fair and reasonable way to do it. Since horrible, fluke teams like the #Dbacks can easily beat better, juggernaut teams like the Dodgers in fewer games, so the better teams need as much room and freedom as possible. I mean hell, they’re the better team, so why should they have to play well?

@Alexdagaz on twitter

Lol funny post but I would be ok with a regular-season trophy and having the playoffs be its own thing? Hockey does that though and nobody cares and I suppose rightfully so. Everybody knows the stakes.

Hockey has a regular season trophy? Does it mean anything? To anyone? Other than of course the team who ended up with the best record.

I don’t think it means anything even to the team that wins it. But yes, it’s called the President’s Trophy.

Boston fans proudly celebrated it last year.

 

[General Malaise]

Either you've got the deepest, hottest, healthiest pitching staff in October/November or you don't. The end.

But then a team like Texas gets through their 2 rounds without Jacob deGrom or Max Scherzer available. So while I think you're right, it wasn't the case for Texas.

 

[Gr00vus]

Either you've got the deepest, hottest, healthiest pitching staff in October/November or you don't. The end.

But then a team like Texas gets through their 2 rounds without Jacob deGrom or Max Scherzer available. So while I think you're right, it wasn't the case for Texas.

Sure, I've oversimplified. You get situations where a team that isn't 100% in the pitching area gets by a team like the Orioles, a young team who seemed obviously overwhelmed by the moment. Let's see how Texas holds up against Houston.

 

[General Malaise]

Either you've got the deepest, hottest, healthiest pitching staff in October/November or you don't. The end.

But then a team like Texas gets through their 2 rounds without Jacob deGrom or Max Scherzer available. So while I think you're right, it wasn't the case for Texas.

Sure, I've oversimplified. You get situations where a team that isn't 100% in the pitching area gets by a team like the Orioles, a young team who seemed obviously overwhelmed by the moment. Let's see how Texas holds up against Houston.

I am cautiously optimistic, but likely going to be disappointed. Again.