# MLB Playoff Predictions - Bring 'Em Here **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 8, 2001, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171 "2001-10-08T19:33:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/21 "2001-10-13T02:16:07Z")
So by my count, eight out of twelve posters who made predictions had the Astros over the Braves. But, in the immortal words of nearly every manager who’s been in the dugout, “That’s why they play the games.” And none of the four of us who picked the Braves over the Astros had them sweeping. ---
**Author:** ![Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/22 "2001-10-15T18:10:49Z")
So far, looks like my prediction skills are questionable at best: > [@](#): > > ALDS: Yanks beat As in 5, Mariners beat Indians in 4 > NLDS: Astros beat Braves in 5, Dbacks beat Cardinals in 4 I missed the Astros/Braves completely, and got the result of the Dbacks/Cards right, in the wrong amount of games. So, the only one I’ve still got a chance of nailing is, to me, the most important one. Go Yanks! ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/23 "2001-10-15T21:30:49Z")
Not quite pissed enough to devote the effort for a Pit thread, but who THE FUCK decided that game one of the NLCS should start at FOUR FUCKING P.M. instead of an evening game? America needs to have “Love Cruise: The Maiden Voyage” tomorrow night – Let’s not tamper with that, Fox. :rolleyes: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/24 "2001-10-16T03:03:55Z")
I’m watching the Yankees-A’s game. Did anyone notice that there are more members of the 1991 Braves _in this game_ (Gant, Justice, Stanton) than on the 2001 Braves (Glavine, Smoltz)? ---
**Author:** ![Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/25 "2001-10-16T04:01:44Z")
😃 Yankees win! The-e-e-e Yankees win!!!😃 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/26 "2001-10-16T04:25:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mouthbreather \* > **Not quite pissed enough to devote the effort for a Pit thread, but who THE FUCK decided that game one of the NLCS should start at FOUR FUCKING P.M. instead of an evening game?** The playoff schedule was designed so that any game involving the Yankees would be during prime time. Normally that would piss me off, but after what New York has been through I don’t begrudge them a little special treatment. Let them watch their Yankees. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/27 "2001-10-16T04:39:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RickJay \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by mouthbreather \* > > **Not quite pissed enough to devote the effort for a Pit thread, but who THE FUCK decided that game one of the NLCS should start at FOUR FUCKING P.M. instead of an evening game?** > > The playoff schedule was designed so that any game involving the Yankees would be during prime time. > > \*\* Rick, you’re almost never wrong, but according to the Fox/MLB [World Series.com](http://www.worldseries.com) site, Game 1 of the ALCS is at 4 pm ET. And in any case, there isn’t an ALCS game tomorrow, when the NLCS starts, so there’d have been no conflict, and on Wednesday, when both series **are** active, it’s the NLCS that’s on in prime time, while the ALCS does twilight time. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/28 "2001-10-16T05:22:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mouthbreather \* > \*\*Not quite pissed enough to devote the effort for a Pit thread, but who THE FUCK decided that game one of the NLCS should start at FOUR FUCKING P.M. instead of an evening game? > > America needs to have “Love Cruise: The Maiden Voyage” tomorrow night – Let’s not tamper with that, Fox. :rolleyes: :mad: \*\* First they play too late, then they play too early. There is no way to satisfy people. And if you live on the West Coast, you’re screwed any which way. As far as we know, most baseball games start in the fourth inning. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/29 "2001-10-16T08:18:18Z")
I predict I’ll have an ulcer and be broken-hearted. Again. O, National League, Why hast God forsaken thee? ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/30 "2001-10-16T10:40:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BobT \* > **First they play too late, then they play too early. There is no way to satisfy people.** Play the games at night. You’ll never hear me complaining about games being too late. It doesnt seem like much of a decision – If you want to watch a late game, you’re going to stay up until 1am to watch it, right? I will. But because I can’t even get home until after rush hour the decision is already made up for me. Annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/31 "2001-10-16T10:44:52Z")
At least the 4PM starts will allow kids to see the end of a game on a school night. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/32 "2001-10-16T11:08:52Z")
If youre talking about teenagers, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to me that they could stay up until 1 or 1.30 on a school night on some rare occasions. I did it all the time. If you’re talking about little kids, then I guess so. But not exactly the target audience they should be catering to, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/33 "2001-10-16T13:12:56Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by rackensack \* > \*\* > Rick, you’re almost never wrong, but according to the Fox/MLB [World Series.com](http://www.worldseries.com) site, Game 1 of the ALCS is at 4 pm ET._\* My mistake. The ALDS and NLCS were structured so the Yankees would always be on prime time; I made a dumb assumption about the ALCS. I don’t see any reasonable alternative to playing one game at 4 and one at 7:30, but if someone can come up with a better one, let’s hear it. Please don’t say they should play them both at the same time with regional coverage. I hate that. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/34 "2001-10-16T13:17:28Z")
What would be so bad about 6pm and 9:30? And, IMO, 10.30pm still beats the pants off of 4pm. ---
**Author:** ![Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/35 "2001-10-16T21:02:44Z")
Scheduling some of the games with an eye towards the kids can only help create future adult baseball fans. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/36 "2001-10-16T23:17:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Soup \* > \*\*At least the 4PM starts will allow kids to see the end of a game on a school night. \*\* Not unless they sneak a television into school with them. (which I did during highschool, but that isn’t the point.) A 4pm Eastern start is over by the time the west coast kids get home from school. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/37 "2001-10-16T23:36:32Z")
**Regarding the Mariners/Yankees contest:** I’ll be honest and say I have no idea who’s going to win. I’m a Mariners fan, but I was telling my wife last night that this year, with everything going on, it’s hard to root against the Yankees like usual. Who would ever have thought that the Yankees would be the national sentimental favorite? I will say, though, that I think the two teams are pretty evenly matched, and I’ll be damn surprised if it doesn’t go to seven games in one of the most amazing pennant championships ever. We met in the postseason last year, and it was a good matchup, but not great. The time before that, though, in '95, was, in my opinion, a classic series. And I’m not talking about the results; I’m talking about the tension, the down-to-the-wire uncertainty, the electric suspense of two very different but equally competitive teams. A Yankees fan may have been bitterly disappointed in the end result in '95, but it’s hard to deny that the series itself was incredibly suspenseful and entertaining. If we get an equally fierce battle this time around, I’ll be happy even if the M’s lose. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say I’ll be mildly disappointed if the M’s do the utterly unthinkable and beat the Yankees in four or five. In my mind, it’s all about being competitive and making a good showing. Maybe this is my baseball purist side showing, but give me a series of low-scoring pitchers’ duels – plus one home run blowout, maybe, for spice – and I’ll be a satisfied fan regardless of who wins. ---
**Author:** ![Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171/38 "2001-10-17T00:59:55Z")
Cervaise - I have to agree about the '95 Yanks/M’s series, even though the Yankees lost. Almost every pitch was exciting. Adding to the tension (for me anyway) was the knowledge that this was probably Don Mattingly’s last shot to get to the World Series. I don’t recall his average during what turned out to be the only post-season series he played in, but I remember thinking at the time how rejuvenated he seemed, hitting like he did in his prime. It’s a bittersweet memory for sure. But let’s get back to 2001: Yanks in 6. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoff-predictions-bring-em-here/86171.md?page=1)