I’m really looking forward to the post-season, because it will be about the first chance all year I’ve had to watch baseball on a regular basis.
We moved house in the summer, from west coast to east, and the end of the university teaching year in April and May, followed by the hassle and stress of moving and then getting settled in a new place, meant that I didn’t have much time to watch, and I didn’t bother with my MLBtv subscription this year. I went to a few games back in April and May, but apart from that I’ve been a bit out of the baseball loop this year.
How have the Orioles been doing?
Like most people who are not Yankee fans, my first wish for the playoffs is for the Yankees to be eliminated as early as possible. I’d also be happy to see the Cardinals gone sooner rather than later. Apart from that, I really don’t mind who wins. If the games and the series are exciting, that will be enough for me.
The Last one ended with Yogi getting fired and the Yanks going through their worst decade following it. 1964 was shortly before I was born, I was born into the Yanks down period, largely coinciding with the Giants absolutely sucking and NYC itself falling apart. We were part of the middle-class flight I guess.
If all playoff series are random, everyone’s bracket is 512-to-1. It’s unlikely, but not impossible, and so I assume THOUSANDS of people will have a perfect bracket. (This is as opposed to an NCAA bracket, which is 9.2 quintillion to one if all games are random; they aren’t, but even if you favor heavy favourites it’s trillions to one.) I guess if you make logical choices you might shave it down to 480-to-1 or something but baseball teams are too evenly matched to really narrow it down too much.
So that’s why MLB threw in the tiebreakers. Many people will have perfect brackets, but nailing all those tiebreakers? Can’t happen.
A mighty cudgel was swung in the Wild Card, but he pitcheth yet.
Yea, the bullpen masters are to be feared in the Division Series.
A might chorus greets the triumphant coastal warriors as they vie for pennants, yet do not count out the hinterland battlers.
For world honors, the best will out.
I have the Dodgers beating the Yankees* in six in the Series.
*I’d love to see the Twins or Astros knock off N.Y., but a team that’s overcome so much in terms of injuries and other noise has an edge on the A.L. pennant.
It’s the same rule as during the regular season. With MLB you cannot watch nationally televised games live unless you have cable access to the carrying channel. All of the post-season is nationally televised.
I’ve never been to any kind of post season game in any sport. This year I tried to go through Ticketmaster when the tickets became available and managed to get tickets for game 1 and 2 in Yankee Stadium.
I have had success in the past using a DNS service called Unlocator. Basically, it fools MLB into thinking that your computer is overseas somewhere, like the UK, and allows you to watch postseason games.
It’s $5 a month, but you can do it month-to-month and cancel when the season is over, and I think they have a free trial so you can test whether it still works or not. I’d test it for you, but as I said in an earlier post, I didn’t subscribe to MLBTV this season.
Sheet…I have the same MLB package I’ve had for ten years and this is the first year I couldn’t watch on my Ipad or phone. Just gave me bullshit about “You haven’t bought it from Apple” or some bullshit.
Also PS3 stopped supporting it, so I wasn’t happy this year
