Game Thread: 2023 MLB Playoffs

[81usaf92]

WC starts today

 

[BhamToTexas]

Pulling for the Rangers and the Marlins.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Pulling for the Rangers and the Marlins.

Not really pulling for the Marlins, but I am activelt rooting against philly, if that makes sense.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Team Who Beat Us in 91 beats Team Who Beat Us in 92, 3-1, for their first post-eseason win since the first term of GW Bush.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

My predictions:
Tampa, Minnesota, Philly, Arizona

My hopes:
Rangers, Minnesota, Fish, Milwaukee

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Twins have won game 1.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Come on Fish, beat these Santa hating jerks.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

not looking good for the fish

 

[DzynKingRTR]

philly wins. God I hate this team and fanbase.

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

Read where Tampa had the lowest playoff attendance in the first game since 1919
That's hard to believe.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Read where Tampa had the lowest playoff attendance in the first game since 1919
That's hard to believe.

Not when you consider:
1) we're comparing an intro playoff game to the WORLD SERIES
2) Tampa's fanbase notoriously doesn't show up anyway
3) weather is still good down there right now (and pretty much forever)
4) the assumption is they won't make the World Series anyway
5) it's not like this is their first post-season run
6) they might even be hurt by the fact they didn't get a home WS in 2020 because of Covid
7) Tropicana Field doesn't exactly compel a fan to come enjoy a baseball game, either

I remember in 1995, when the Braves played the Reds at the old Riverfront Stadium, a matchup of the two best teams in the NL, the ENTIRE UPPER DECK between the foul poles had (virtually) no fans up there at all (although if you look at the attendance figure for that game, it claims there were 44,000 fans there, which is like the Nebraska sellout streak).

Bear in mind, Cincinnati is one of the best baseball towns in the US, it was cold and a school night, and most folks had already penciled the Braves in for the World Series, although a bunch of analysts decided the Reds could win.

I also realize that was Game Two, but they had more than Tampa last night.


Tampa-St Pete has never been a good BASEBALL town at the MLB level, and it would be amusing to see if the Twins or Giants, both of whom proposed moving there...would still be there had they moved.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

The Rays season is over.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

The Rays season is over.

There have been three teams in MLB history to start the season 13-0.

None of those three has even won so much as one playoff game.

1982 Braves - swept out of playoffs by Cardinals
1987 Brewers - lost 12 games in a row later and finished 7 games out
2023 Rays - swept out of playoffs by Rangers

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Team Who Beat Us in 91 knocks off Team Who Beat Us in 92.
Twins advance

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Team Who Beat Us in 91 knocks off Team Who Beat Us in 92.
Twins advance

they can go drown their sorrows in some maple syrup.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

well crap. looking bad for the fish agan.

 

[BhamToTexas]

Yep, gonna be the Phillies. Boys better be ready. Those guys don’t shower so they need to be prepared for the stench.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

D-backs are 3 outs away from making Milwaukee cry in their beer.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Tampa
Milwaukee
Toronto
Florida
Arizona
Philadelphia
Minnesota
Texas
Baltimore
Houston
Los Angeles
Atlanta

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Yep, gonna be the Phillies. Boys better be ready. Those guys don’t shower so they need to be prepared for the stench.

I hate Philadelphia more than I hate talking about Coach Mike Shula.