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More than any other sport, Baseball sees underdogs winning

Dodgers and Braves, two of the top teams this year, are both out now, and Yankees are down 2-1 against Cleveland

and there's sure to be some complaints about the new playoff format - Wild Card was a three-game series this year (for the first time), while the top 4 teams (Yankees, Astros, Braves, Dodgers) got a "bye" ... but that bye meant those 4 teams were sitting cold for 6 days while the WC Series played out

these Division Series are only best only 3-of-5, maybe they need to go to a full 7-games to let the bye teams get back in their groove?

congrats to Padres, Phillies, Astros ... only Yankees-Cleveland still going

1 posted on 10/16/2022 12:50:13 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

Dear DODGERS,

YOU ARE THE BIGGEST FLOPS OF THE 2020S!!

HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAA!

sincerely,

The Diamondbacks


2 posted on 10/16/2022 12:53:22 AM PDT by Az Joe (Biden & ChiComs are the enemy, not Putin.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Ha ha.

I used to be a Dodger fan. Now I root for no team since the players refused to play when cops shot the knife wielding rapist in Wisconsin.

I laugh and enjoy the Dodgers losing now. This after 111 wins is pretty sweet.


4 posted on 10/16/2022 1:22:35 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: canuck_conservative

Gotta say, 2 of 3 and 3 of 5 are crap shoots in baseball. The best team rarely wins. For this and other reasons I have lost most of my passion for MLB. Right now, I am for the Phils, but they are miles away from being the best, and should not have been in the playoffs at all.


7 posted on 10/16/2022 1:45:29 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: canuck_conservative

And the opium of the masses goes merrily along.


8 posted on 10/16/2022 2:08:17 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Baseball is unwatchable.

Claustrophobic shots of the pitcher, catcher, batter with the distracting digital box. Like it’s a video game. Then close ups of the the players in the dugout.

If and when there is a hit you have to wait until the THIRD replay to see the wide-view play on the field. By that time, the excitement of it is over.

Combined with aggressively annoying commercials? No thanks


9 posted on 10/16/2022 2:51:29 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: canuck_conservative

should also add,

there is a further controversy because SD limited ticket sales to area counties only, in an attempt to keep LA fans from taking over Petco Field

now there’s questions of whether that’s legal ... but didn’t the Nashville Predators do something similar already?


10 posted on 10/16/2022 3:15:54 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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Sorry...I have no interest watching the Cleveland Transgenders or the Atlanta Non Binaries. When pro athletes started kneeling at the National Anthem and when teams started renaming themselves I completely lost interest.


12 posted on 10/16/2022 4:30:39 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I Miss Jimmy Carter)
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If MLB were to expand the playoff series yet again, baseball playoffs would be like those of basketball and hockey, taking forever to complete, and making the regular season of less and less importance. We need fewer, not more playoff games.


13 posted on 10/16/2022 5:21:20 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: canuck_conservative

No thank you to ‘wokeball’.


17 posted on 10/16/2022 5:32:46 AM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: canuck_conservative

The Yankee offense has been non-existent and Cleveland has been hot. They may go all the way.


22 posted on 10/16/2022 5:50:22 AM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: canuck_conservative

BELIEVE


23 posted on 10/16/2022 6:11:21 AM PDT by Dave Wright
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To: canuck_conservative

111 wins in the regular season does not translate to anything in the postseason. Maybe it should, that’s a valid question. Congratulations to the Padres! I’m sure the networks were hoping for an old-fashioned Yankees - Dodgers World Series but that is not going to happen. The Yankees are still alive, but Dem Bums (as they were formerly known in Brooklyn) have let their fans down once again.


26 posted on 10/16/2022 6:39:51 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: canuck_conservative

Baseball is the most boring sport invented next to soccer.


27 posted on 10/16/2022 6:43:58 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: canuck_conservative
Like Joe Garagiola used to say, "Anything is possible in a short series".

This epic takedown proves the wisdom of that old adage.
28 posted on 10/16/2022 6:44:39 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: canuck_conservative

The off-time has not hurt the Astros....

I would love to see Cleveland (I won’t call them the Guardians!) beat the Yankees.

And the Phillies re peaking at the right time. Maybe they are this year’s Nationals - fire the manager in June, turn the season around, and go through the playoffs to win it all.


29 posted on 10/16/2022 6:46:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: canuck_conservative

Any day the Dodgers lose is a good day.


30 posted on 10/16/2022 6:48:49 AM PDT by skeeter
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The wild thing was the Dodgers actually started their own rally to begin the seventh. Up 2-0 as it began, they managed to add a run without a big hit. They produced a walk, a bunt hit, a hit-by-pitch and a sacrifice fly. That netted one run and put runners on second and third with only one out. From there, though, Max Muncy and Justin Turner could get no more runs home.

Those runs you don't get come back to haunt you.

31 posted on 10/16/2022 6:51:06 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: canuck_conservative

The cry heard throughout padres nation was beat LA and LFGSD said in mid-season by catcher and clutch walk off master Jorge Alfaro.


35 posted on 10/16/2022 11:28:30 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!you)
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To: canuck_conservative

Fear the Goose!


39 posted on 10/16/2022 3:58:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: canuck_conservative

Dodgers - COVID Champions!


40 posted on 10/16/2022 3:59:02 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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