MLB Playoffs Thread

Me

[dfwgator]

Starting a thread for the MLB Playoffs.

Game 1 Wildcard Results

White Sox 6 Astros 3 - F

Yankees 9 Red Sox 0 - F

Braves 5 Phillies 3 - F

Padres 4 Cubs 0 (Bottom 5th). Cubs with no hits through 5.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; mlb; playoffs

[kiryandil]

“Jumpin’ Jack” Morris cured me of baseball fanship years ago...

And I was a BIG baseball fan.

[dfwgator]

Cubs have been no-hit through 6.

[Migraine]

Someone already said “I don’t care about baseball”, so I can’t say, “in before”. But King was masterful; and the Padres are hot.

[montag813]

Manny Machado did a great acting job to try and make an infield hit look like an error. The scorer wasn’t fooled, since Nico Hoerner would have beaten it out anyway. So no-hitter gone.

[dfwgator]

So close.

[dfwgator]

I like the Padres to beat the Dodgers.

[kiryandil]

I used to care about baseball - I can recite history and statistics to you.

But our professional athletes cured me of it - just like the NFL US-disrepecting thugs cured a lot of us of football.

[Bullish]

“Jumpin’ Jack” Morris cured me of baseball fanship years ago... And I was a BIG baseball fan.

No you weren't, nobody could ever "cure" me of my "baseball fanship" (sic). It's about the game I love and not about the individual players, managers, owners, commissioners, sportscasters or anything else. It's always been about the game and I'll never let anything or anyone else spoil it for me.

[Bullish]

See my reply #9 to kiryandil on this thread. It’s also meant for guys like you.

[Bullish]

Oh, I just realized it’s you again... Never mind.

[kiryandil]

No you weren't

That's your opinion. Guys like Kirk Gibson and Justin Verlander are few and far between these days.

They were class, like the old days.

[KitJ]

My dear pop-in-law was a lifelong Cubbies fan. Sadly, he passed just before his team won the pennant.

I took my little ones to Braves games back when. Game ball from Chipper Jones. A signed ball from Wade Boggs. Wonderful times. I love baseball.

Don’t let anyone spoil it for you.

Though I will say I watch banana ball. It’s like baseball, but more fun. Hah.

[dfwgator]

Let’s just say it was a great day for White Sox fans.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

I used to care about baseball - I can recite history and statistics to you.

Baseball is nowhere near the NFL in popularity, but I still like baseball's long-term prospects compared to the NFL, because the game of baseball itself is so great, despite Bud Selig, whose destruction to the league cannot be overstated.

If you watch a baseball game in its entirety, you will always see one thing you haven't seen before.

[kiryandil]

You don’t have to be a steroid mutant to play baseball.