MLB Playoffs 2024

Oh well. The Royals overachieved on the season and won a playoff series. Go Guardians or Tigers.
 
Great outing from Cole last night.
AndyMarquisLive said:
I STILL think the Yankees will win the World Series. It's their year. Even when they underperform, things fall right into place for them.
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We shall see. The LCS has been where they tap out for the better part of the past fifteen years. Lots of hot and feisty teams left in the Mets, Tigers, and Padres, and the Dodgers are obviously very good. But I would not at all be surprised to see a couple of the upstarts meet at the end.
 
Not sure what the Dodgers plan is to beat the Mets after exhausting all their pitching the first 2 games of the series...

LFG Mets!
 
FLRacingFan said:
Great outing from Cole last night.

We shall see. The LCS has been where they tap out for the better part of the past fifteen years. Lots of hot and feisty teams left in the Mets, Tigers, and Padres, and the Dodgers are obviously very good. But I would not at all be surprised to see a couple of the upstarts meet at the end.
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All signs point to Yankees/Dodgers World Series now. As expected.

Good for MLB I guess. They'll get Judge, Soto and Shohei in the World Series, with the two largest markets and the two biggest bandwagon fanbases tuning in.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
All signs point to Yankees/Dodgers World Series now. As expected.

Good for MLB I guess. They'll get Judge, Soto and Shohei in the World Series, with the two largest markets and the two biggest bandwagon fanbases tuning in.
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LA doesn’t need to be there. Subway Series is fine by me.
 
kkfan91 said:
God I hope not. The only likeable team in all of this is Cleveland.
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I get it. But Arizona made it last year and no one really cared.

I was hoping the Padres would advance over LA but their bats absolutely died in that series after the Dodgers’ bitchfit, bar one inning in Game 3.
 
FLRacingFan said:
LA doesn’t need to be there. Subway Series is fine by me.
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I want Cleveland vs. Mets, but it was always going to be Yankees/Dodgers.

The MLB really needs salary caps, not the half-assed version they got now written with so many loopholes.

Anytime there's a big name up for free agency, you can bet the farm they'll end up with the Yankees or Dodgers.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
I want Cleveland vs. Mets, but it was always going to be Yankees/Dodgers.

The MLB really needs salary caps, not the half-assed version they got now written with so many loopholes.

Anytime there's a big name up for free agency, you can bet the farm they'll end up with the Yankees or Dodgers.
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I think we talked a lot bit about this in the offseason when Shohei got that wild contract from LAD, but they’ll never get a cap implemented without a floor as well. The NBA’s is 90% of the cap now, iirc. As it is now there are just too many clubs that are okay not spending any money on payroll and being net recipients from the revenue sharing formula each year. I’m talking Pirates, Rays, A’s, etc.
 
And I should add that with how massive these player contracts are now I don’t even think the MLBPA would approve of a cap. So Idk where you even begin really.
 
I can't bring myself to root for the Yankees under any circumstances (go Cleveland!), but I can pragmatically recognize that MLB can benefit from a Dodgers / Yankees - Ohtani / Judge World Series. Playoff viewership is rebounding, the pace of play rules changes have made these games much more watchable, and the momentum is there to produce WS ratings not seen for many years. As much as I'm in favor of MLB finally taking a smarter more NFL-like approach to revenue sharing, it starts with boosting the factors that drive national interest and get MLB out of the regional hole they've been in.
 
I first went to a game here as a kid probably two full decades ago now, and today work just down the road from it. Wild to think that it may finally have died after getting blown open by a hurricane. Perhaps the ultimate irony would be the Rays finally getting their chance at playing in Tampa by way of the Yankees and Steinbrenner Field.

 
Congratulations to all the Cowboys fans on the Yankees making the World Series.

Seriously, I have over 200 Facebook friends this week who have suddenly come out as Yankees fans.

The dark ages have returned.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Congratulations to all the Cowboys fans on the Yankees making the World Series.

Seriously, I have over 200 Facebook friends this week who have suddenly come out as Yankees fans.

The dark ages have returned.
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Dont forget to include the HMS fans too 😇
 
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It’ll be really interesting to see what the TV numbers look like for this series since it’ll indicate what the ceiling for the sport really is these days. Not only is either team the biggest brand in their respective league, they were each the top seed from the regular season (exceedingly rare in the Wild Card era), and both feature the likely league MVP in a matchup of 50 HR hitters for the first time ever. There will never be a 2004 Red Sox or 2016 Cubs narrative ever again, so this is as good as Major League Baseball could’ve ever hoped for.
 
FLRacingFan said:
There will never be a 2004 Red Sox or 2016 Cubs narrative ever again, so this is as good as Major League Baseball could’ve ever hoped for.
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I mean Cleveland is up to 76 years now, of course to go along with your point they aren't quiet the popularity of those teams you mentioned.
 
As usual, Yankees pitchers have a mile wide strike zone and Yankees batters have an inch wide strike zone.

This sport is rigged as ****.
 
The Dodgers are too OP.

It’s hard to feel sorry for the Yankees though since they pioneered the “buy your way to championships” by throwing money in the air maneuver. lol sorry my boy @FLRacingFan
 
Reck said:
The Dodgers are too OP.

It’s hard to feel sorry for the Yankees though since they pioneered the “buy your way to championships” by throwing money in the air maneuver. lol sorry my boy @FLRacingFan
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Both teams are. This is gonna be a rough era for baseball.

The NFL is structured so well in this regard. It's very hard to buy a Super Bowl with salary caps in place.
 
Reck said:
The Dodgers are too OP.

It’s hard to feel sorry for the Yankees though since they pioneered the “buy your way to championships” by throwing money in the air maneuver. lol sorry my boy @FLRacingFan
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eff Steinbrenner and throw a little more dirt on his legacy.
 
Michfan said:
Wow what a huge fan interference
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I should be more up on the rules but imo the fan interfering should be automatically ejected from the game. Maybe they are, I do not know....
 
Reck said:
The Dodgers are too OP.

It’s hard to feel sorry for the Yankees though since they pioneered the “buy your way to championships” by throwing money in the air maneuver. lol sorry my boy @FLRacingFan
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No one should ever feel bad for either of these teams tbf, that’s just part of the deal in being who they are.

Boone is getting cooked for putting Cortes in that situation after over a month off and probably rightfully so. I think Torres’s error that let Ohtani advance to third on the 8th inning double was pretty brutal though. At that point it felt like a loss was imminent.

It was a great game and an incredible moment for baseball though. And Joe Davis nailed that TV call.
 
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