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AL wild card: Red Sox move into tie with Yankees for top spot; Mariners win thriller to stay alive
CBSSports.com ^ | Mike Axisa, Matt Snyder & Dayn Perry

Posted on 10/03/2021 8:03:00 AM PDT by be-baw

The AL East rivals will enter the final day of the season with identical 91-70 records

Thanks to Saturday's results, we'll go into Sunday with the possibility of a four-way tie for two wild-card spots still intact

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Now, here are the current wild-card standings after the Red Sox, Blue Jays, and Mariners all won on Saturday and the Yankees lost:

AL wild-card standings 1. Red Sox: 91-70 2. Yankees: 91-70 --------------------------- 3. Blue Jays: 90-71 (1.0 GB) 4. Mariners: 90-71 (1.0 GB)

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The Yankees and Red Sox have already guaranteed themselves an extra game, either a Game 163 tiebreaker Monday or the AL Wild Card Game on Tuesday. Both the Yankees and Red Sox control their own destinies. The Blue Jays and Mariners need help to reach the postseason at this point.

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(Excerpt) Read more at cbssports.com ...


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To: Jolla; Vaquero; Gay State Conservative
it's amazing how some Freeper’s can still patronize a sport and group of athletes that spit in their face on a fairly regular basis.

I've watched a ton of baseball games this year, and haven't seen any instances of "Social Justice" BS. Just baseball.

About the only overt "Social Justice" garbage I can recall was when some teams had "Black Lives Matter" carved into their pitching mounds during Opening Day last year. But that was gone right quick.

Baseball's getting a raw deal being lumped in with the NBA and NFL, the real "Social Justice" crusaders.

61 posted on 10/03/2021 10:46:10 AM PDT by JennysCool
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To: cgbg

OK...but by watching such a contest you increase the chance that they’ll both win.


62 posted on 10/03/2021 10:46:46 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: JennysCool

See Post #42


63 posted on 10/03/2021 10:48:37 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Interesting how you know that site so well. Biggest group of virtual signalers, scolds and nags I’ve ever seen. You’d be right at home! Whats your screen name?


64 posted on 10/03/2021 10:50:21 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Jolla
Giants and Dodgers in the middle of all of this too.

And I sure don't want to face the Cardinals in a one-game playoff.

65 posted on 10/03/2021 10:50:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SamAdams76

Wasn’t it Bucky F’ing Dent?


66 posted on 10/03/2021 10:51:18 AM PDT by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: bigdaddy45
I salute when I hear the National Anthem...your good buddies at MLB kneel.
67 posted on 10/03/2021 10:53:26 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: JennysCool

Here in New England the local baseball teams (Red Sox, Yankees, Mets) are a lot more lefty wacko virtue signalers.

—Vaxx propaganda, on and on and on, especially pushing it on the “minority community”
—Special honors for almost always retired black players, occasionally hispanic players.
—Pushing “charities”, many of which have leftist agitation agendas (some blatant, some more hidden).
—A BLM sign here and there.
—Periodic whining about “disadvantaged communities”.
—Special pervert ticket promotions from time to time (with pervert propaganda inserted).

Overall—not pretty—enemy occupied territory.


68 posted on 10/03/2021 10:54:09 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: allblues

That was what he was called up in Boston.


69 posted on 10/03/2021 10:55:50 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 106 days away from outliving George Harrison)
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To: Gay State Conservative
I'm talking about the game.

Every sport has had its rich, goofy ownership and management; i'm not talking about weird choices in stadium or street decor.

As I said, I've watched a lot of baseball this year, I've simply not heard or seen any "Social Justice Warriors" on the diamond at all. Certainly not the overt displays the NBA and NFL persist in making.

However, your mileage may differ, of course.

70 posted on 10/03/2021 10:58:01 AM PDT by JennysCool
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To: cgbg

See my #70. I’m talking about the field of play, not the boardrooms and offices. The boardrooms and offices have always been nuts. :)


71 posted on 10/03/2021 10:59:42 AM PDT by JennysCool
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To: Alberta's Child

Yep I’ve heard that too, that “analytics” guys are making decisions, and call down to the dugout to tell the manager what to do.

In the past anyway, the manager made the decisions about when to pinch hit for someone, who the pinch hitter would be, when to change pitchers, and who the relief pitcher would be.

It’s got to be hard to be a manager nowadays, if a move results in losing the game, yet you are at the post game press conference having to explain why you brought in a certain relief pitcher at a certain time, etc. If it’s not your own decision, that’s got to be hard to defend.


72 posted on 10/03/2021 11:00:42 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: be-baw

Sports reporting and analysis: money for nothing.


73 posted on 10/03/2021 11:04:06 AM PDT by CletusVanDamme (Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights...)
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To: JennysCool

Do advertisements and announcements on the stadium scoreboards count as “the field of play”?

Most of the items I mentioned fit in that category.


74 posted on 10/03/2021 11:04:30 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: traderrob6

No, it certainly is virtue signaling when you publicly act as if you have no idea what MLB is or if they are playing. Who says conservatives don’t virtue signal? It’s not just for liberals


75 posted on 10/03/2021 11:18:36 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey ( I wiIl not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!)
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To: Sir_Humphrey

Did I do that?


76 posted on 10/03/2021 11:24:29 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Sir_Humphrey
Someone expressing that they do not watch the game is somehow virtue signaling? A vast amount of conservatives have found other activities to fulfill their time with besides sports. Because I am so disgusted with the overly PC NFL and MLB that I do not care to watch any games, I am some how virtue signaling?

Get off your pity party high horse Karen.

77 posted on 10/03/2021 11:29:05 AM PDT by New Perspective (#NotMyPresident -Proud father of a son with DS & fighting to keep him off biden's death panels.)
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To: cgbg
I don't doubt you at all. Watching on TV, though, they seldom show the scoreboard unless there's a ball flying over it.

I guess what I'm mainly getting at is the NBA and NFL seem to be saturated with "activism," while baseball has just basically been playing baseball this season.

78 posted on 10/03/2021 11:56:21 AM PDT by JennysCool
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To: JennysCool

“NBA and NFL seem to be saturated with “activism,” while baseball has just basically been playing baseball this season. “

Exactly right. And I appreciate it.

Play ball!


79 posted on 10/03/2021 11:57:37 AM PDT by be-baw
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To: be-baw

Astros won a ‘thriller’ of their own, last night. So many GREAT plays.

Not to stay alive, but to clinch home field advantage.

Today is a great baseball day.


80 posted on 10/03/2021 11:58:45 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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