MLB 2023 Postseason Thread

not what?

don't think this thread is what j0rd had in mind

xps you can webmail me the links because I’m pretty sure i have no idea what you’re referring to and I’ll respond the same way

Kids, kids, can we stop fighting and concentrate on what's important here which is LET'S GO O'S

Sorry but I’m on the Diamondbacks train now, and when the train inevitably meets its destination of failure, I’m here for bad umpiring and chaos

No!! That's the wrong train!!! Get off before it's too late!!!!

sadly choo choo
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Let's
Go
O's

We’ll see how it goes with the Jays and Brewers, but there is def a road to me jumping on teams O’s

Frogs has moved me onto the Brew Crew, this train might not leave the station but it’ll have a lot of cheese

Home town team > alcohol themed teams from cities I enjoyed > surprising second-worst to first teams loaded with young talent > anything that’s not the Yankees or Astros

i've already prepared myself for the inevitable dismissal of the braves in the divisional series.

If the Jays lose I may switch allegiance to the Twins, continuing my late-80's/early 90's fandom that began when they smashed the hated Tigers back in '87.

rooting for the O's or the Twins this postseason.

i-94 series imo

xxp Who hates the Tigers???

oof vladdy

To jimB: there was a wild rivalry between the Jays and tigers innthe late 80s before they got moved into different divisions.

They seem like one of the least hate-worthy teams in the majors, but I guess from that perspective it makes sense.

Motorcitykitties is the best subreddit handle ever. That’s my regular verbiage for those tigers, making it impossible to stir up any negative emotions for them

Motorcitykitties is the best subreddit handle ever. That’s my regular verbiage for those tigers, making it impossible to stir up any negative emotions for them

I have good early childhood associations, having been born there. I always want to see them do well, but that's about it.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Let’s go O’s! (And whoever else voted Dodgers)

Who was the poster who put $20 on the O's in the preseason?

My mate (first season watching) did

Looks like we’re getting all 2 game series for this wild card round. Kinda glad, will make the DS’s more interesting with all teams getting at least a days rest

no games three is rude

Don't mind one rolling postseason thread and ILBaseball has always had these round polls.

I would also like to ask for someone else to do the polls for the Division Series.

Seems like the team with the highest win total got the tougher team in both leagues this year. Rough way to draw it up. I really can’t see the astros or twins getting to the WS. The NL seems like the league to watch this post season. Really hope the Twins can produce some magic over the astros. This is all very exciting ngl

yeah i don't understand why MLB doesn't re-seed after the wild-card games. atlanta should be playing the worst NL team left, not the winner of the 4-5 series

at least it's saving the NL clubs on travel, i guess

might sign up for a youtube tv trial today - first 3 weeks free, which i think takes me to the world series

Figure there's going to be a fight at the bar tonight btw me holding the remote and all the punters wanting college football.

Max has a free trial of their new sports add-on that covers the NLDS and NLCS, FYI

Had to check: in the decade since the Astros switched leagues, they've never faced the Rangers in the playoffs. Has the potential to be a great, high-scoring series.

Still holding onto the hope that Joe Ryan can shut the Astros out and Verlander gets lit up in game 5

Still the round of golf with Trump, or is there something else I'm not aware of?

Oh you know, I fully acknowledge he’s a great but I just don’t like him. And I do like Joe Ryan and his throwback hair. I watched a start from him earlier this year where he put a serious spoke in what was then a red hot Red Sox offence and pitched an absolute gem, though I don’t think his second half has been much good. Finally, I had no live with no end of gloating from my better half re Verlander‘s good start.

Seriously though, look at this coverage
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I had to live

If the Braves can't figure shit out tomorrow, I'll be rooting for an AZ-TX series just because it's such a weird concept.

I am fully expecting the rangers to pull some magic out of their bag and win the whole thing. Really I’m happy with anyone but the Astros from here on out, all readily weird teams moving forward

AZ-TX both received 0 votes in this poll so they deserve it the most

Order has been restored with the Braves and Dodgers back to dominating the regular season and flopping in the playoffs.

Misery loves company (I do)

rooting for a rematch PHI over HOU

Four 100-win teams in MLB this year (I'm including the 99-win Rays), and none of them even advanced to the LCS.

Maybe this is the new norm -- last year three out of the four 100-win teams didn't advance to the LCS.

The advancing teams this year have gone 20-2 (six series sweeps and two four-game best of fives) but it still feels like there's been a lot of exciting baseball. Maybe because of all the upsets?

Bye week throws you off your game, negating any benefit from pitcher rest. Manfred just needs to add a few expansion teams for those sweet sweet franchise fees, split each league into four divisions and have a wild card for each and no byes.

Or a soccer style group stage feeding directly into the championship series, the two best records get to stay at home for the entire group stage.

make the #1 seed choose who it wants to play in the division series, giving us an entire week of harper/arcia-style 'they disrespected us' palaver x 2