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SF Giants officially eliminated in NL West Playoffs.

Golf?

Oh no, it's only August. Way too early for elimination. Sorry!

PS - please take back your pandabear person. Oh wait, you did

Mercifully, the Phillies should be next.

More likely San Diego, probably before Monday. Philly right after. SD's "E" number is 5, Phillys is 9.

No one is eliminated from the wild card yet, but that should start happening late next week.

When is the earliest date that a team was eliminated?


1962 Mets, Aug 7 in the modern era.



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I imagine mid August would likely be the earliest, although it could be a bit earlier in the times when only two teams from each league (one east and one west) made the playoffs--no central divisions and no wild cards. I'd bet the early Mets (I recall more than 100 games lost one season--62 or 63 I think) could well be that team.

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The Giants, three years removed from their last World Series title, are the worst team in the majors.

Three World Series titles in the last seven years, and last season, with essentially the same team they made the playoffs...

They suffered some injuries early in the season, but this is like the '27 Yankees suddenly turning into the '62 Mets...

I'm glad I have two home teams...

Sad, sad.

Meanwhile, Cleveland wins 13th in a row, equaling a team record. Lovely place to be, is Cleveland. Not like the left coast at all.

MajGenl.Meade wrote:Sad, sad. Lovely place to be, is Cleveland. Not like the left coast at all.

I thought I'd recycle this URL image since I still had it loaded up from copying it for an earlier post.

"Cleveland, city of light; city of magic..."

Oh, ancient history. Come visit the Flats!



A bit different from the old days when I hung out there at PIrate's Cove "which will go down in Cleveland rock lore as the host of shows by the Dead Boys, Devo and Pere Ubu – back when the Flats was a rough-and-tumble working-class drinking spot".

That was shortly after the river-fire when the Flats was a bit of a "life in your hands" place to park and walk through. Dirt roads and lack of street lights made it an exciting trip to reach the club. It truly was a dirty bar, packed to the gills with hard-drinking people and very loud rock music. Dave Thomas called his group's music "avant-garage" and here it is:



Yeah it's a bit of a hijack but who gives a hoot about loser teams in la-la land? (Nomenclature not restricted to LA). No one - that's who.

Meade: Did you ever see the Dead Boys there? They were one of my favorite bands (Sonic Reducer is on my list of top 100 songs of all time) but I never got the chance to see them live.

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the Flats was a bit of a "life in your hands" place to park and walk through. Dirt roads and lack of street lights made it an exciting trip to reach the club.

I used to feel the same way going out to punk shows in Philly. Then late one night on the Broad Street line I looked around the car, then at my friends, and said, "Wait a minute -- we're the people on the subway that everyone is afraid of!"

No, sorry that I didn't. They moved to NY in 1976 before my time (1977) and if they played PC after that, I missed it. Saw lots of bands less memorable than the big 3.

Saw Devo in January 78 - because my first wife knew Mothersbaugh from school. That was about the last time they were there - going all toury and international. And Pere Ubu many times - it was almost their home stage for a time.

On a quieter night - Janis Ian and also went to see her there during the 80s (or was it 90s?) long after the Cove became Peabody's DownUnder. It was, indeed, a dirty dingy basement before Peabody's cleaned it up a bit.

Also met the people below (J and the Ds) and they came to our house in Cleveland Heights and did their "performance art", much to the puzzlement of the people we'd invited, including the Plain Dealer music critic, the sainted Jane Scott.



Hmmm, I don't think I was Meade in those days

Pere Ubu... Cleveland (Punk) Rocks! And they're still at it.

Is that image of Cleveland photoshopped? That's not how I remember it. Too much sunlight.