2016 MLB Postseason Thread

If you were there for both games, by the time you factored in concessions/restroom visits, you might get to take in three, four, maybe five total innings!

 

Who would last longer, Arrieta or your belly?

 

It's all good.

 

For the love of God, southern/dome teams will never agree to this. They don't want to give up summer games for some in April. And teams don't want to start put with a bunch of road games.

 

Adam Rubin ESPN Staff Writer
Game 1 of Cubs-Mets (or Cubs-Giants) in the division series will be Friday at 9:15 p.m. ET (8:15 p.m. CT) at Wrigley Field. Game 2 is Saturday at 8:08/7:08 in Chicago.

 

Yep. There is decidedly less excitement around a "home opener" than there is around Opening Day.

By the regional plan you'd be saying the (among others) Yankees, Red Sox, Mets, Cubs, White Sox, Phillies, Indians, Reds and Tigers never open the season at home. That's not gonna fly.

 

Fine then, alternate between years. Or just mix it up every year. In the northern cities, means there will be some postponements or game played in crappy weather that first week. I'd just rather see that happen in games 1,2 or 3 of the year, rather than games 4, 5 and 6 of the frickin' World Series.

 

Times through Sunday

MLB playoffs 2016: TV schedule, game times, bracket for baseball's postseason
Thursday, Oct. 6:

ALDS A: Game 1 - Orioles/Blue Jays at Rangers, 4:38 p.m. | TV: TBS
ALDS B, Game 2 - Red Sox at Indians, 8:08 p.m. | TV: TBS

Friday, Oct. 7

ALDS A, Game 2 - Orioles/Blue Jays at Rangers, 1:08 pm. | TV: TBS
ALDS B, Game 2 - Red Sox at Indians,4:38 p.m. | TV: TBS

NLDS A, Game 1 - Giants/Mets at Cubs, 9:15 p.m. | TV: Fox Sports 1
NLDS B, Game 1 - Dodgers at Nationals, 5:38 p.m. | TV: Fox Sports 1

Saturday, Oct. 8

NLDS A, Game 2 - Giants/Mets at Cubs, 8:08 p.m. | TV: MLB Network
NLDS B, Game 2 - Dodgers at Nationals, 4:08 p.m. | TV: Fox Sports 1

Sunday, Oct. 9

ALDS A, Game 3 - Rangers at Orioles/Blue Jays, 7:38 p.m. | TV: TBS
ALDS B, Game 3 - Indians at Red Sox, 4:08 p.m.| TV: TBS

 

Dear Nats fans,

Good luck and let's have some fun.

Sincerely,
Dodgers fan

 

How many postponements have there been lately? Just on a quick search, I found what looks like the last one in 2011, adding an extra day between Games 5 and 6 in St. Louis. It would have been Oct. 26.

Doesn't seem like an outlandish problem now that I look at it more. It would be nice if they didn't play when it's below 40 degrees, but I don't think anything we're talking about will make a big difference. There aren't a lot of places that have a significant drop in average temperature between the weather of Oct. 24 and Nov. 1, not enough to affect the odds in this way in any case.

 

Fuck both of those teams, especially the latter. Fuck their fans, especially the latter.

 

Which meant Carpenter could pitch Game 7. You had to bring that up ...