# MLB: Post-Season 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [September 30, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046 "2019-09-30T14:37:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/41 "2019-10-02T03:38:59Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > Yeah, no kidding. I only caught the final inning and a half of that game, but I’m glad I did. The Brewers really shot themselves in the ass there. Yeah, their right fielder must be feeling kinda Buckneresque right about now. Juan Soto has a good chance to be the left-handed, left-fielding Willie Mays. You read it here first. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/42 "2019-10-02T13:43:45Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > You should be ashamed to be a part of a bloodbath. Twins will never beat the Yanks…and I hate the Yanks. What odds will you give me on that bet? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/43 "2019-10-02T13:50:52Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > The Nats bullpen blew plenty of games this season as well. Maybe so, but the timing of this particular bullpen implosion for Milwaukee was particularly inauspicious. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/44 "2019-10-02T14:52:38Z")
People are acting like the Twins snuck into the playoffs out of a weak division, with 89 wins or something. The Twins aren’t underdogs this year. Yankees fans should be very nervous…home field might be the only thing that saves them. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/45 "2019-10-02T17:10:14Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > What odds will you give me on that bet? Me and history will bet you straight up that the Yanks win. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/46 "2019-10-02T18:25:47Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Me and history will bet you straight up that the Yanks win. Current odds for the ALCS champion are Yankees 2/1, Twins 6/1 - 7/1. [Here](https://www.oddsshark.com/mlb/odds/futures), or [here](http://www.vegasinsider.com/mlb/odds/futures/). So, very brave of you to offer pick em odds and take the Yankees. Yankees won the regular season series with them 4-2, with one game going into extra innings. How many of the legion of guys who got injured on the Yankees this year, are going to be able to play in the ALDS? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/47 "2019-10-02T18:30:43Z")
Unfortunately, Jacoby Ellsbury won’t be on the postseason roster. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/48 "2019-10-02T20:44:51Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > The Nats bullpen blew plenty of games this season as well. “Plenty” is understating it. They may have won 100 games with even a mediocre bullpen. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/49 "2019-10-02T21:42:44Z")
The Nets won because of the home field advantage. They had a lot of support there. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/50 "2019-10-02T22:16:50Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > I only caught the final inning and a half of that game Heh. I _stopped_ watching after the first. Way too many idiotic commercials on TBS; I’ll have to find a radio to listen to with the TV on mute when they play the Dodgers. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/51 "2019-10-03T00:08:36Z")
[MLB.TV](http://MLB.TV) has offered me, an international subscriber, a post season ticket to all the games for 25USD. After I do the math, how much per game?, I may join. If all the teams play the maximum number (5 of 5, 7 0f 7) of games. What would be the price per game? Thanks for your help. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/52 "2019-10-03T02:27:49Z")
> [@harmonicamoon](#): > > [MLB.TV](http://MLB.TV) has offered me, an international subscriber, a post season ticket to all the games for 25USD. > > After I do the math, how much per game?, I may join. > > If all the teams play the maximum number (5 of 5, 7 0f 7) of games. What would be the price per game? > > Thanks for your help. 4 DCS @ Best of 5 = 20 2 LCS @ Best of 7 = 14 1 WS @ Best of 7 = 7 41 games @ 25 = .61/game Even thinking fairly conservatively (avg DCS goes 4 game, avg LCS goes 5, WCS goes 5) there’s probably 30+ games in there, so still less than $1 per game. TLDR, it’s a deal, take it. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/53 "2019-10-03T03:50:48Z")
Gracias Zakalwe for the math! I am on it! Will be great to have the larger screen. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/54 "2019-10-03T03:54:33Z")
On the one hand “Yes, I know. Win your division” In theory though…because _when_ it was implemented the One game playoff was most likely to affect the… John Henry: “We will never be able to financially compete with the Yankees so lets go for the WC Red Sox”… i hated the idea. I railed against it. Called it a forced substitute for actual one game playoffs. Said its like deciding a football playoff game based on one series of downs. In theory i still hate it even though my Red Sox have never had to play in it…and its gone on so long I would have been happy to see the Sox in it. Yes, I know. “Win your division”. But I still feel for the A’s. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/55 "2019-10-03T13:11:57Z")
I don’t think that’s at all a fair assessment of John Henry’s approach. The Red Sox tried to win as many games as they could. If that meant a Wild Card, oh well. They never aimed for second place and you can’t argue with the results over the last twenty years. I don’t like the two Wild Card thing, but the Wild Card is, to my mind, a superior approach than would be four divisions, if you’re looking for a three round playoff system (which I like.) A three-division-winners plus one system will generate a higher quality of playoff team than a four-division-winner system. Adding the Wild Card game reduces the quality a little (though Tampa Bay over Oakland isn’t really a difference at all.) The thing about the Widl Card games is some of these games would have had to happen anyway; I can think of several examples where the two teams had the same record anyhow and so would have played the same game under the old system. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/56 "2019-10-03T13:16:56Z")
Is it just me, or is [this sort of thing](https://deadspin.com/poor-rays-sideline-reporter-keeps-getting-absolutely-so-1838728203) juvenile and possibly sexist bullshit? I understand that there’s going to be beer and champagne flowing in the locker room of a team that’s just won its way into the playoffs, and I don’t expect the players to curb their exuberance just to accommodate the reporters, but it seems to me that there’s a difference between some incidental soaking and a deliberate effort to pour as much shitty beer as possible over the head of a professional reporter who’s just trying to do her job. I’ve seen male reporters get wet from beer and champagne before, but I don’t recall ever seeing this type of concentrated and persistent soaking, and I can’t help but thinking that it’s a product of the fact that the reporter is a relatively young woman. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/57 "2019-10-03T15:01:36Z")
You’re right, that’s not a good look, especially when it’s a bunch of men and a lone woman. Bad optics, as they say. Also, TV reporter means TV makeup getting wrecked. She’s not a member of the team, or even the organization. Why should she (or he) get drenched? On the other hand, does anybody watch or care about these celebrations? The game is over. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/58 "2019-10-03T15:10:59Z")
I didn’t even really care about those celebrations when it was the Blue Jays. “Wooooo! It’s a great bunch of guys! This is what we worked for! Gonna have some fun tonight and then get ready for the next round!” You can only say those things so many ways. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/59 "2019-10-03T15:41:51Z")
I think you’re making too much out of it. It doesn’t look good in isolation but I’ve seen the beat reporters get pretty drenched in celebrations. Sweeny Murti of WFAN has been that drenched covering the Yanks. Others have too. Though most teams use champagne don’t they? ETA: If she isn’t a regular reporter though, it is a lot worse looking. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/60 "2019-10-03T15:47:14Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I didn’t even really care about those celebrations when it was the Blue Jays. “Wooooo! It’s a great bunch of guys! This is what we worked for! Gonna have some fun tonight and then get ready for the next round!” You can only say those things so many ways. I’m curious, you don’t like the post-game celebrations, how about when the fans stay after the win of a clinching game or big comeback to serenade their team? I’ve been part of a few, thousands strong, sing-alongs to _New York, New York_ in the past. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046.md?page=4)