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If watching is caring then yeah, I care at  least somewhat.  It's cool to see franchises like the Reds and Padres become relevant again. White Sox and Marlins too.

Having a 4 way race for the last wild card going into the last 2 games is pretty cool.  I'm a Giants fan, and a fair-weather Mets fan, but I wish I had any confidence in either of them, and I have no confidence in whoever gets that slot and has to face the Dodgers.

Maybe it's NL West bias but I feel like whoever comes out of the top half of the NL bracket - Dodgers or Padres - will handle ATL for the NL pennant and go on to beat the Rays or Yankees or whoever.

I understand the shortened season, but my feelings are meh. Baseball for me, is all about the grind, what team can grind it out and come up the winner for 168 plus playoff games.

However, I am pretty impressed that the Marlins are in, but under a normal season, probably not!

Now, none of that.  If we can get excited about college baseball with its shorter season, or high school baseball even shorter, heck if we can get excited about a weekend-long travel tournament, we can get excited about this.  It's baseball - heard that the Brewers just turned a triple play.  It's still a triple play, just because there wasn't a full season of grind behind it.

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The White Sox are absolute monsters, but my Twins can be very good, especially if Odorizzi comes back and is effective. Cleveland also has a great pitching staff, which is everything. The AL Central has been unexpectedly strong.

The big prediction on ESPN is that the Twins will finally win a playoff game.  Tough time to play at 1:00 PM.  Will have to find a way to watch on my phone while 'working'.

 

Well, I could not want the Cardinals to win, and I'm glad for the Padres, but it is pretty embarassing that all seven Central division teams are gone in the first round.

Do you think that there is a correlation between young studs being brought up in an empty stadium and seasoned players missing the roar of the crowd? 

We had a family discussion about this today. I don't know the teams well enough to make that call.

 

Well, I could not want the Cardinals to win, and I'm glad for the Padres, but it is pretty embarassing that all seven Central division teams are gone in the first round.

At least they got to the first round.  The Red Sox were 24-36 and the Nationals were 26-34.   Now, that is more embarrassing than a home plate umpire splitting his pants.

PS...Still rooting for the Rays.  I'd like to see somebody new win the World Series.

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So does a 10-5 win mean that the Astros can hit, for real?

Astros team OPS dropped from 848 in 2019 to 720 in 2020 and that is a huge drop and some see it as evidence that it was the cheating that made them great but they also had some bad luck. Obviously they overperformed in 2019 and are not that good but I think they are still a good hitting team.

Losing Alvarez to injury and altuve having knee problems most of the year did not help. Also the distraction of all that in the media didn't help either. 

Maybe the cheating helped them some and they were more an 800 ops team than an 850 ops team but I still think they were good. 

I just can’t pull myself to watch swing and a miss, swing and a miss, swing and a miss, swing and a miss, boom, baseball. I’ll watch again when the NCAA tournament baseball returns.

I read an article on what’s wrong with Andrew Benintendi. The Sox changed his swing angle several degrees to turn him into a 5’9” power hitter. Excluding this year’s injury disaster he’s now a questionable prospect hitting .260 with less power having trouble making contact and striking out an absurd amount instead of a .290 with 20 homer, 40 doubles power hitter.

i just can’t watch this crap. It’s crap it takes four hours to watch, I was a diehard baseball fan for a half a century MLB lost. I never watch more than a couple of innings anymore. After watching three of six hitters strike out, and it takes an hour, I change the station.

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Gotta love the Brousseau story.  Just a  great game that came down to an amazing at-bat. Only thing that could have made that HR bigger would be if it was in the WS.  He showed a lot of class in the post-game too.

Before all the BS I was very Astros-friendly but I'll definitely be rooting for a Rays vs. Atlanta series.*

(Even though I'll be rooting against his team, I want George Springer to know that the Giants are a class organization with fantastic fans, on the rise again, and signing with them would be a great next step in his career.)

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