A little early sure, but there are some very good storylines that will be decided over the next 2 days. American League: Locked In: 1/2) NY 93-67 1/2) Texas 93-67 3) Detroit Rock City 87-73 4) Baltimore 92-68 5) Oakland 92-68 Outside Looking In: Nobody, with Oakland winning last night, Tampa and LAA were eliminated. Interesting Storylines: The 1st and 2nd positions are up for grabs with 4 teams legitimately in it, everybody is going for it to stay out of the 4/5 spots thus playing that 1 game elimination game. This is kinda crazy if you ask me. NY plays Boston, Texas plays Oakland, and Baltimore plays Tampa. If Oakland sweeps Texas and wins the Division that would amazing. National League Locked In: 1/2)Washington 96-64 1/2)Cinny 96-64 3)Frisco 93-67 4)Hotlanta (HK where you at) 93-67 5)STL 87-73 Outside Looking In: The Los Angeles Red Sox 85-75, LAD elimination number sits at 1, so any combo of a STL win or LAD loss eliminates them Interesting Storylines: LAD is playing Frisco, STL is playing Cinny, and Washington is playing Philly...Home field is still up for grabs with Washington and Cinny, so it looks like it might come down to the wire on this. Should definitely be an exciting finish and I for sure will be watching MLBN for the next few days to see how it unfolds.
Good idea to start up this thread. I think I'm going to be rooting hard for an Oakland A's vs. Washington National WS this year.
The Oakland possibility of going from 5th to 1st in 2 days is mindblogging to me... MLB has to love this right now... If NY gets eliminated I will be rooting for Washington....
Part of me is rooting for as many play-in games as possible to lead into the WC play-in game just to give Bud a heart condition, LOL. Love this as well, and extra chaos is fun too.....couple a rain outs and Bud may go into an insane asylum too? NYY v BAL play in STL v LAD play in (always preferred Los Angles Dodgers of Boston - LAAoB) Think about the STL possibility...this is what I am rooting for: The Cardinals will finish the regular season at home against the Reds. If they lose out and the Dodgers win out, then, as already noted in this space, the Cardinals and Dodgers will play a one-game playoff on Thursday in Los Angeles to determine the second wild-card entrant. Now consider that the Cardinals and Reds have Tuesday night's latest start time (8:15 pm ET). So after a pair devitalizing losses to the loathed Reds, the Cardinals would board a late-night charter for the West Coast. It would not meet Rafael Furcal's definition of a "happy flight" ... Total so far: 1,589 miles. Should the Cardinals be fortunate enough to prevail against the Dodgers in Chavez Ravine, then they'd need to be in Atlanta for yet another "loser leave town match," this time against the Braves in the actual wild-card round. So that's LAX to Jackson-Hartsfield ... Total so far: 3,789 miles. If they sleepwalk to victory over Atlanta, then it's back to St. Louis for a Sunday match-up against either the Nationals or that same Reds team that abetted all of this by selfishly beating the Cardinals in the final two regular-season games. So ... Final total: 4,344 miles. Yes, there's that Saturday off day, which, if all of these events conspired against them, would do the beleaguered Cardinals oodles of good. Still, that Wednesday through Friday stretch would be a miserable one.
Okay so the Los Angeles Red Sox lost last night eliminating them so the only thing left for the NL to decide is the #1 overall seed as both Washington and Cinny won.... 1/2) Washington 97-64 1/2) Cinny 97-64 3) Frisco 94-67 4) Hotlanta (get excited HK) 93-68 5) STL 87-74 Tiebreaker: --One team wins and one loses tonight, then obviously that team is the #1 seed. --If both teams win or lose and the records are tied then the Nationals own the season tiebreaker and are the #1 seed. American League: 1) NY 94-67 2) Texas/Oakland 93-68 3) Detroit 83-74 4) Balt/Oakland/Texas 93-68 5) Balt/Oakland/Texas 93-68 Tiebreakers: There are a bunch. 1 Seed) 4 teams are in play for the 1st overall seed still. FOUR. ---NY wins tonight they have 1st seed (thats the easy one to decipher hahah) --If NY loses and Balt wins, Game number 163 in Baltimore determines the Division. --If Texas or Oakland win TODAY @ 335 they are the West Division winner..... After that I am not sure how it gets played out between if there is a tie between --Texas/Balt/Oakland--provided Balt wins number 163 for the #1 seed it is very jumbled...... This is crazy......
We may see a couple of one game playoffs I had hoped the Pirates would make the dance this year but they faded down the stretch.
And Baltimore did almost nothing except a few small moves here and there and made it. Ditto for the A's who all they really did was add Reddick and Cespedes. But hey at least the Dodgers have 5 more years of Gonzalez and Crawford, 2 more years of Beckett and 1 more year of Punto while the Angels have 9 more years of Pujols. So they have that going for them.
Great write up here.... http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20121003&content_id=39418980&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb It still isnt clear though look at the 2 bolded...it still isnt clear about if their IS a tiebreak for NY/Balt and Tex or Oakland waits in the wings so to speak who becomes the #1... On one hand you have one team with 163 games and one more win Balt/NY but on the other you have one team with one less game with one less loss so a better win % I would imagine no??
Well if it counts as a regular season game, its strickly # of wins....and since a one-game play-in for East Champ and WC would count as Regular Season game, the most the A's or Rangers can have is 94 wins (West Champ and #2 seed) and loser 93 win (2nd WC #5 seed). If Yanks lose tonight and O's win, then each would have 94 wins. Thus, the most the Yanks or O's could have is 95 wins (East Champ and #1 seed), the loser 94 wins (#1 WC and #4 seed). Yes, if Yanks win tonight they have #1 seed locked with 95 wins anyway. Detroit is locked as #3 seed. EDIT: See post #15 for correct scenario since extra game only counts in regular season stats...but not 95th win from seeding standpoint.
They always have in the past... (ok, perhaps it counts as regular season game from Stats standpoint but not from seeding...LOL). found this: If Yanks and O's play a one game play-in to determining AL East winner both with 94 wins, the losing team would still have 94 regular-season wins and thus would host the Wild Card playoff game over the 93-win AL West runner-up. Since the result of a tiebreaker game cannot be considered in determining playoff seeding, the winning team would be tied for the top seed with the 94-win AL West winner (as the 95 win can not count in seedings). To determine top seed and Division Series matchups, then, the previous tiebreakers would apply. If the Yankees won and the A's are West champions, New York would play Detroit and Oakland would play the Wild Card winner (Tex vs. Os). If the Yankees won and the Rangers are West champs, New York would play the Wild Card winner (As vs Os) and Texas would play Detroit. If the Orioles won, they would play the Tigers, with the AL West champion (Tex or As winner) playing the Wild Card winner (Yanks vs Tex or As loser) . so there ya go.....hahaa
How would they determine a tiebreak winner then? between the winner of them and the Oakland/Texas winner.....you little monkey....
this please, don't want any part of Miggy right now....guy like that in a best of 5 can win you it all by himself...
Then just root for Yanks to win tonight, and its guaranteed we wont play Det. (but will travel to that WC winner for 1st 2 games)
Yes that what I meant. But thanks for the rest of the post to clear up any questions people may have.
Actually BDH it cant be that, because if the Yanks win they get the 1 seed automatically and they play the 4 seed no matter what because this year inter-division teams can play one another in the ALDS....... Detroit is locked in at the 3 seed regardless of what Texas and Oakland do.....Doesn't 1 play 4 and 2 play 3 no matter what?
Washington won 5-1 just now...NL is locked in.... 1) Washington 2) Cinny 3) San Fran 4) Hotlanta (HK is drooling) 5) The Lou
Correct, if they win tonight Yanks lock up #1 seed. However, if Yanks lose and Os win, then the #1 and #2 seeds are up in the air. If As win today over Tex, and Yanks and Os play one game and Yanks win, A's would be #1 seed, and Yanks would be #2 seed. In that scenario Yanks would play Det #3 seed. All scenarios are posted above....stop over thinking things. Just root for Yanks win tonight so you get your wish to avoid DET. And root for A's win if you want WC between O's and Tex with winner playing Yanks. Its not hard to understand except for a pigeon brain
I will always be rooting for the 2nd WC team to beat the 1st just to make the fans of the losing WC team hate the new playoff system.
What's crazy with AL, both WC teams will have more wins than DET as central winner. LOL And Angels and TB will have more wins too!
I'm pretty sure the Pirates made the playoffs. I thought I started a thread about this? It this a typo???
I've already started hating it in preparation for a potential Friday night loss. When you finish six or seven games ahead of another team I don't think they should have any shot at taking your NLDS spot.
Just so everybody knows Teddy finally won the Presidents mascot race at Nationals Park today. This ends a super long streak of futility for the Rough Rider.
So that's all she wrote folks, first order of march is.... Wild Card Friday NLWC: STL (Loshe) vs. ATL (Melden)(HK is masturbating) 5pm ALWC: Baltimore (TBA) vs Texas (Darvish) 830pm
I am rooting for Balt to beat Tex (but think Saunders gets lit up)....want Yanks vs. Os to possibly increase chance for playoff tickets. Rooting for Nats for a hopeful Yanks vs Nats WS...same reason.
I was thinking the same thing actually. I wouldn't be upset to see Baltimore or Washington be there wither but I don't see it happening.
