Feels like this will be over on Saturday.

It's a shame the nats hot streak fizzled out now. Hoping they can extend to 7.

Pretty good game today. Looking like we'll see a game 7. So far the road team has won every game. That's crazy.

Greinke has been one of my favorite players since he was a Royal. I was ecstatic to have him on the Brewers. Hes the Garth Melgar of baseball. I hope he has a great night.

One of those hits was a HR, and then he sent a runner to first. Great outting, but I think I'm also expecting my pen to do some heavy lifting for 8 outs.

For the first time for as long as I can remember, I'm less than excited for the season to start. This is sports at its worst.

That's because of his punchable face

Well, at least we have Yelich for another nineeight years. I'm really happy we have him locked up. I was expecting a lean year from the Brewers, but now I'll just be happy if we see any baseball at all.

I also hate the DH. It seems like I'm very much in the minority on that, though.

I'm excited for the shortened season, but I'm pretty skeptical that this will go off without a hitch. I wonder how team infections will be handled... it seems like game forfeitures will be inevitable, and really make standings complicated.

It will be weird watching a Giants v Dodgers game tonight without stabbings.

I didn't want cubs fans to get confused. I figured I better leave the onion reference in there so you don't all rush out and mail full frontal pics to your favorite club.

Its nice to see fox contributing to the realism by filling Wrigley with fake fans.

Lorenzo Cain just opted out. I dont see how this season isnt scrapped by tomorrow.

MLB had all the pieces in place to make it work, a pretty distanced sport, team facilities ready to go in the south to minimize travel complications.. they just couldnt bring it together.

I hope the NFL heeds this warning. They're going to need to pivot hard to make their season work. As it stands, I have practically 0 confidence it will.

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https://sports.theonion.com/little-league-pitcher-just-getting-fucking-shelled-1819577729?

Pitchers indignantly pantsing themselves is the best thing to happen to the game in a long time

https://twitter.com/loganmmurdock/status/1407536359733043200?s=19

NL central champs!!

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Yep. 50 years in the booth as of yesterday.

Yeah. Seriously. What the fuck.

At first I wanted BOS to win, but seeing their fans happy now makes me want NYY to crush them relentlessly.

Joe Kelly!

Interesting call, and another reason the NL rules are way more compelling than the AL.

if everything the Red Sox did was fair game we'd all be pouring ketchup in our socks and talking about what heroes we were for it.

Lol, yeah you caught me on the "liking it" part, quickly thought better and pulled that.

It's part of the game though as we all know, like it or not. No one feels bad for the Astros. Other teams cheating doesn't really balance a WS championship that could have easily gone another way had they not had an elaborate system in place after a pretty definitive warning to all teams.

And the commentary in that video is hilarious. Relax!

What's the early O/U on stabbings?

We should be so lucky.

If you want, we can just laugh about LA buying the wrong teams from cooler cities right in here.

Go Beers!!!!

Feels like it's going to be tough to get this one back to MKE. Shit.

Everyone says "you can't do it over". Why not? Put together the teams as they were as best as you can for a special 7 game series to determine the 2017 world series. Astros win, they keep the title, Dodgers win and it's theirs.

Yeah, logistics, injuries, contracts... yada yada. We put together an NBA season during a pandemic without much of a problem. You can't tell me we couldn't figure this shit out.

Where do we draw the line? I don't know, but the Astros almost definitely didn't deserve the title as it is. You're not going to convince anyone outside of texas otherwise. Handing over the title to the Dodgers doesn't really accomplish a lot, it has to be earned.

We tend to lack creativity when it comes to these things. If we could apply as much imaginative in fixing this as they were in cheating, well we probably would have had something really entertaining to watch.

At the very least, if it comes down to Astros Dodgers again, there should be 2 titles on the line.

I'm just doing my best to distract myself before an elimination game, alright??

Looked like no catch to me.

Shit. Kind of how I expected the rest of the series to go after we came out flat in g2.

Braves played well, I hope they can take it all.

Tb@bos a damn good game right now, TB fighting for their lives.

Edit: Lol, I fell out of pace after the brewers lost. Woke up from a nap and didn't even realize I was watching a replay. What a maroon.

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Quite the game here!

Congrats, ATL!

Not all of us..

Last year was a huge disappointment with the lackluster playoff appearance. Brewers pitching should keep them competitive this year. I'm curious if Yelich can return to form.

There are contradicting studies on what significance payroll has on success. For the most part, it's pretty clear that money does play a significant role in regular season success. That advantage is significantly reduced in the postseason.

People tend to apply too much weight to contradicting statistical outliers on both sides, like the As and the cubs.

The Hader move is disappointing, but only because it feels like it confirms what we already knew - the team was unlikely to be competitive in the playoffs.

Because of that it makes sense to move Hader now. I trust Stearns until proven otherwise.

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Enjoy it, a legitimate chase from a hot team to make the playoffs is about as good as it gets. It's a little different now with the extra spots, but it's still good to be the team no one wants to play in a shortened series.

Baseball has pretty rapidly altered their playoffs somewhat significantly. I think it was that rockies Padres(?) Single game tiebreaker 10-15 years ago that really made MLB realize how exciting that format could be. I'm not certain they haven't ruined it as a result.

That's what I'm afraid of

The Brewers are 1.5 gb with 8 to go, which means they're actually 2gb since they don't hold any tiebreakers. Quite the long shot, but it will make the final stretch fun to watch!

And just like that, 1gb!

Brewers up 2-0 in the 8th and give up a 4jack. jesus.

Our season is over, but I'll be tuning in to get the final game on the radio today. Every game with Uecker is a gift, who knows how many more we get.

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Congrats Astros fans! Not really the outcome I wanted, but glad the team could offer retention to their fanbase.

Oh wow, tons of activity going on in the mlb thread. I wonder what's happening?

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