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.
So far, looks like my prediction skills are questionable at best:
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!
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:
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)?
Yankees win! The-e-e-e Yankees win!!!
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.
Rick, you’re almost never wrong, but according to the Fox/MLB World Series.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.
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.
I predict I’ll have an ulcer and be broken-hearted. Again.
O, National League, Why hast God forsaken thee?
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.
At least the 4PM starts will allow kids to see the end of a game on a school night.
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.
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.
What would be so bad about 6pm and 9:30?
And, IMO, 10.30pm still beats the pants off of 4pm.
Scheduling some of the games with an eye towards the kids can only help create future adult baseball fans.
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.
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.
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.