MLB general postseason 2020 thread

i imagine it's all about trying to avoid football

yep

but there woulda been at least one unneeded Game 3 played today?

Lindbergh on in-game playoff interviews

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2020/10/2/21498591/espn-in-game-interviews-playoffs-ramon-laureano

i like the image

Four days of lots of baseball (with extra innings and everything) and now two days of zilch is annoying.

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, October 3, 2020 1:45 PM (yesterday)

Agreed, no playoffs on the first weekend in the month of October is 1000% bullshit.

dodger stadium is juiced

I vote for separate threads for each series

Does the WS--does the tournament--conclude before or after the election? If the beloved Astros go on to win, I'd hate to think of that as some kind of election portent.

Before... Manfred was adamant.

wtf am i supposed to do with a yankees-astros ALCS

not gonna happen

loving this morbs optimism

rooting for the yankees might be the worst thing about 2020, if it comes to that.

I think I have a low-grade PENNANT FEVER

Astros over Yankees and Dodgers again would be hilarious though

So far in the division series:

Hou-Oak: 6 homers
NYY-TB: 6 homers
Atl-Mia: Acuña hits the upper deck in right center; Rojas reaches the train tracks

— Brendan Gawlowski (@GawlowskiB) October 6, 2020

this marlins-braves game is fun so far

i appreciate that alcantara plunking acuña cost him runs

funny how travis d'arnaud got pretty good after escaping the mets

not that funny

I don't know where this postseason Astros team came from but I'm enjoying the ride

did i just hear that 16/18 runs in TB-NYY series have scored on homers? Small ball, right A-Rod?

my lord, stanton

frightening

eat shit, astros!

A's are alive... workin on TB

have to say i like this five-days-straight thing, even though it will never happen again under normal circumstances and is a bizarre shift from the previous best-of-3 round

less excited about the eight homers in every game that doesn't involve the braves

I honestly would love fewer days off in the playoffs. Force teams to use their 4th or even 5th starters!!

How can you not like the Rays?

^^^ seconded.

^^^ 3rded

i like the a's better, but ok

anyone saw that Bellinger catch?

Yes and it hurt.

That was a good game, shame the wrong team one though.

*won

A's-TB works for you guys? Bronxers excluded.

There is a very simple rule for winning playoff baseball in 2020: outhomer your opponent. Teams that hit the most home runs in a game are now 18-0 this postseason.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) October 7, 2020

well RIP, Oakland, yet again; let's hope someone else rips them apart

keep hoping

The Braves haven't played in the NLCS since 2001 ... I was sure they'd been at least once in the past decade.

always exciting to see former pirates go head-to-head in a decisive playoff game

probably not ideal that one of them is going on two days' rest

Can anyone here explain the oddly-angled UTZ logo on the mound? Is it spray painted? A digital superimposition? Why is it kind of...standing up...like that?

Whatever the case, as sponsors go it’s not making MLB or the playoffs look like much of a big deal.

Ok I got it. Somehow before tonight I have only noticed the Utz logo, not Evan Williams Bourbon. Or HBOMax. In the MIDDLE OF THE PICTURE.

Fuck you again Manfred.

looking forward to the radioshack WS

why didn't Snell start today?

They’ve had his number for a couple years now.

shoulda let cole keep going imo

Although another Astros vs Dodgers World Series would be hilarious, I've been wanting to see Astros vs Braves ever since the Astros got relegated to the American League.

hate to see it

So many people spared from having to root for either the Astros or Yankees.

Bret Phillips slipped my mind--for sure.

As for Snell, this isn't Pedro and Grady Little, nobody will remember it by next season.

I'll see you in 2029; I'm 0-1 so far.

Meanwhile, Turner rates barely a mention on mlb.com.

Of course he doesn’t. It’s the Pravda of the game.

yeah i really thought this would be a bigger story and black eye on the WS

I think it's a big story elsewhere.

All that's really left, though, is to construct a timeline and figure out if it's all on Turner. If it is, he'll have to live with the consequences both short- and long-term, but that's about it. But depending upon when the Dodgers or the league knew of his positivity, things may escalate. (The fact that they couldn't keep him in that room is already a problem.)

They all knew before G6 that he was potentially positive, and he played anyway.

What about the tests done on the entire Dodgers team after the game? Any positives?

I’ll remember Seager becoming Bonds at SS and Kershaw finally getting a championship as much as the Snell switch and Turner’s stupid decision.

And the one highlight has to be that Philipps hit.

Turner is just one more dumba$$ in a country full of them.

I'd say better armor up next season against the Cardinals and Marlins, as I guess Turner was one of the guys saying "we got to come together to make the season happen" in interviews when those couple clubs had their outbreaks.

Oh well, fxxx the Dodgers anyway.

nobody will remember it by next season

people still define buck showalter's entire career by a pitching change he made in a wild card game in 2016, no way this dies soon

people still define grady little's entire career by *not* pulling pedro in game 7 of the 2003 ALCS (which apparently david ortiz forgot about)

tbf, pedro is a hall of famer and nick anderson has a DWI conviction and felony assault charge for which he received seven years probation

Stolen from a meme: The free-spending Dodgers traded away 2x 2020 Cy Young candidates (Ryu & Maeda) and still had the best record in MLB and won the World Series.

Ryu was a Free Agent tho

awfully weird year for joc pederson -- i mean they were actively trying to get rid of him, but then arte moreno got bored, and then he sucked during the regular season, and then he was pretty great in the playoffs and won the world series

Haven't heard boo about Justin Turner. Maybe the election crowded that out, maybe MLB put it in the O.J.-searching-for-the-real-killer file.

lol bless you guys for being in here rn

(it's just a bunch of Canadians here rn fwiw)

true enough

justin turner is going to end up signing like a pro-rated 1y/$5m deal in may because the system is broken. you'll hear boo about him then

i mean, assuming a normal year, which won't happen either

okay $5m is too low but still

Randy Arozarena can do literally anything. pic.twitter.com/xozIpt5XpQ

— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) November 5, 2020

I wish I could pull pink clothing like he does.

if u can hit a curveball u can wear pink

can u hit a curveball?

okay bros

Major League Baseball has completed its investigation of the events following the Los Angeles Dodgers Victory in Game Six of the World Series. The following statements from MLB, Justin Turner, and the Dodgers were released today. pic.twitter.com/cVu1E6g7lT

— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) November 6, 2020

the stinging slap to the wrist echoes across dodgersNation

Hilarious--Friday afternoon, with the election election playing out.

The Bruins fired Peter Chiarelli on the day Aaron Hernandez was convicted of murder.

They fired Claude Julien during the Patriots' Super Bowl parade.

The Red Sox re-hired known cheater Alex Cora as the fate of the country hung in the balance.

Boston PR folks: *chef's kiss*

— Mark Lazerus (@MarkLazerus) November 6, 2020

huh, forgot that the Red Sox had a new manager this season. Seems like they're going to be generally forgettable for a bit.

good news for the rest of baseball: the cardinals seem intent on sucking ass next year, saving money for the future? who knows. hopefully they get last place in 2021 and get a good draft pick for once