A Thread For The Playoff Games Of A Sport That Matters...

[Lord Jim]

(Fans of that glacially paced flat-bat pseudo sport need not participate...)

Schedule and results:

(All times ET)
*if necessary

Wild Card Games:

Tuesday, Oct. 4

American League Wild Card Game: Blue Jays 5, Orioles 2 (recap)
Wednesday, Oct. 5

National League Wild Card Game: Giants 3, Mets 0 (recap)

Division Series:

Thursday, Oct. 6

ALDS Game 1: Blue Jays at Rangers, 4:38 p.m. (TBS)
ALDS Game 1: Red Sox at Indians, 8:08 p.m. (TBS)

Friday, Oct. 7

ALDS Game 2: Blue Jays at Rangers, 1:08 p.m. (TBS)
ALDS Game 2: Red Sox at Indians, 4:38 p.m. (TBS)
NLDS Game 1: Dodgers at Nationals, 5:38 p.m. (FS1)
NLDS Game 1: Giants at Cubs, 9:15 p.m. (FS1)

Saturday, Oct. 8

NLDS Game 2: Dodgers at Nationals, 4:08 p.m. (FS1)
NLDS Game 2: Giants at Cubs, 8:08 p.m. (MLB Network)

Sunday, Oct. 9

ALDS Game 3: Indians at Red Sox, 4:08 p.m. (TBS)
ALDS Game 3: Rangers at Blue Jays, 7:38 p.m. (TBS)
Monday, Oct. 10

ALDS Game 4*: Indians at Red Sox (TBS)
ALDS Game 4*: Rangers at Blue Jays (TBS)
NLDS Game 3: Cubs at Giants (FS1)
NLDS Game 3: Nationals at Dodgers (MLB Network)

Tuesday, Oct. 11

NLDS Game 4*: Cubs at Giants (FS1)
NLDS Game 4*: Nationals at Dodgers (FS1)
Wednesday, Oct. 12

ALDS Game 5*: Red Sox at Indians (TBS)
ALDS Game 5*: AL Wild Card winner at Rangers (TBS)

Thursday, Oct. 13

NLDS Game 5*: Giants at Cubs (FS1)
NLDS Game 5*: Dodgers at Nationals (FS1)

Championship Series:

Friday, Oct. 14

ALCS Game 1 (TBS)

Saturday, Oct. 15

ALCS Game 2 (TBS)
NLCS Game 1 (Fox or FS1)

Sunday, Oct. 16

NLCS Game 2 (Fox or FS1)

Monday, Oct. 17

ALCS Game 3 (TBS)

Tuesday, Oct. 18

ALCS Game 4 (TBS)
NLCS Game 3 (Fox or FS1)

Wednesday, Oct. 19

NLCS Game 4 (Fox or FS1)
ALCS Game 5* (TBS)

Thursday, Oct. 20

NLCS Game 5* (Fox or FS1)

Friday, Oct. 21

ALCS Game 6* (TBS)

Saturday, Oct. 22

NLCS Game 6* (Fox or FS1)
ALCS Game 7* (TBS)

Sunday, Oct. 23

NLCS Game 7* (Fox or FS1)

112th World Series:

Tuesday, Oct. 25

World Series Game 1: National League at American League (Fox)

Wednesday, Oct. 26

World Series Game 2: National League at American League (Fox)

Friday, Oct. 28

World Series Game 3: American League at National League (Fox)

Saturday, Oct. 29

World Series Game 4: American League at National League (Fox)
Sunday, Oct. 30

World Series Game 5*: American League at National League (Fox)

Tuesday, Nov. 1

World Series Game 6*: National League at American League (Fox)

Wednesday, Nov. 2

World Series Game 7*: National League at American League (Fox)

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2016/10/4/1 ... ults-teams

[Lord Jim]

My two home teams are in, but they took very different paths to get there...

The Nationals took command of the NL East early, led all the way, and easily won their division...

The Giants on the other hand, had a mondo-bizarro schizophrenic season...

At the All Star Break, they had the best record in MLB, and then they went 30-42, to fritter away the NL West Division lead, and had to rally by winning their last four games at the end of the season just to claw their way into the second wild card playoff spot...

And now they begin by taking on the team that finished with the best record in MLB...

But let's not forget what happened the last time (just two years ago) that the Giants started out as the number 2 wild card team...

[MajGenl.Meade]

OK, I give up. Searched everywhere but where's the "Sport That Matters"? Not a word about Tottenham's triumph over Man City

[oldr_n_wsr]

But let's not forget what happened the last time (just two years ago) that the Giants started out as the number 2 wild card team...

It's an even numbered year (aka Giants year).

[Lord Jim]

But let's not forget what happened the last time (just two years ago) that the Giants started out as the number 2 wild card team...

It's an even numbered year (aka Giants year).

OK, I give up. Searched everywhere but where's the "Sport That Matters"?

[Jarlaxle]

GO RED SOX!


That is all.

[Econoline]

But let's not forget what happened the last time (just two years ago) that the Giants started out as the number 2 wild card team...

Hey, let's not forget what happened to the Cubs just 108 years ago!

• Yeah, I'm a south-sider...but at least I've seen the White Sox win the World Series ONCE in my lifetime. (My father was a lifelong Sox fan and he never saw that happen even once in his 69-year life.) I really would like to see the Cubs win it all just once, just to get it over with (and just so I can start booking a nice skiing vacation in Hell this winter...).

[Lord Jim]

Yeah, I have to admit that if you look up the dictionary definition of the word "due" you'll probably see a Cubs logo...

[Bicycle Bill]

Just curious, LJ — with all financial records, transactions, reporting, monetary transactions, and so on being done electronically or digitally, where do they manage to come up with all the tickertape?  Or are there companies that specialize in the production, sale, and distribution of waste paper?



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[BoSoxGal]

I'm rooting for Papi to get one last ring - GO RED SOX!

[MajGenl.Meade]

Yeah - go to Heck!

[Bicycle Bill]

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[Lord Jim]

Yeah - go to Heck!

That will be quite enough of that Mr. Potty Mouth...

[Scooter]

It was nice to see the Jays finally capture that wild card spot, notwithstanding the tortuous route it took to get there. A shame that had to be overshadowed by the boorish behaviour of some local neanderthals.

[Lord Jim]

A shame that had to be overshadowed by the boorish behaviour of some local neanderthals.

Not a neanderthal...

A Pagan...

Most wanted man in Toronto: Police identify alleged beer thrower at Blue Jays game



For the past couple days, Ken Pagan has been the most wanted man in T.O.

Toronto police issued a photo Wednesday afternoon of the man they identified as the beer-can tosser Tuesday at the Blue Jays playoff game at the Rogers Centre.

The photo is of Pagan, whose seat was in the section from where the can was tossed, and — in videos of the incident on social media sites — appears to toss something on to the field.



He spoke with police Wednesday night and made arrangements to turn himself in. Pagan has not yet been charged.

He is an employee of Postmedia — and formerly of Sun Media — an award-winning journalist and passionate baseball player and fan with an encyclopedic knowledge of the game.

Pagan, who was at the game Tuesday on a night off from work, said he had been advised by his lawyer, Frank Genesee, not to speak about the incident but did suggest the police may have it wrong.

“I was drinking out of a cup,” Pagan told Postmedia, and suggested Twitter photos that show him after the can was tossed clearly indicate he had a cup in his hand. “I’d love to tell you what happened and my story … but I can’t say anything.”

The controversy occurred in the seventh inning of a wild-card playoff game between the Jays and Baltimore Orioles.

Orioles outfielder Hyun Soo Kim caught a deep fly ball just as a beer can flew out of the stands from the 200 Level seats and narrowly missed him.

The incident put a black mark on what was an incredible game, and elicited headlines and outrage not only in Toronto but across North America.

The Toronto Sun issued a $1,000 reward to anyone who could identify the “loon ball,” as he was characterized by Mayor John Tory.

Pagan said he was badly rattled by the “firestorm” and “finger-pointing” that raged following the game.

http://news.nationalpost.com/sports/mlb ... -jays-game

Gee, one doesn't expect a Canadian to behave this way...

Where did this guy think he was? Philadelphia?

[Bicycle Bill]

Just thought I would point out that each and every game of this year's MLB post-season — even the games that will be played in Canada — will be held somewhere SOUTH of my hometown, La Crosse Wisconsin (coordinates 43°48′ 48″ N/91°13′ 59″ W).
Rogers Centre (aka "The Skydome"), the home of the Blue Jays, is located at 43°38′ 29″ N/79°23′ 21″ W which places it about ten minutes of latitude (or roughly ten nautical miles/11.5 statute miles) further south of where I am seated now.

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[Jarlaxle]

Jays just pasted Texas.

[Beer Sponge]

NHL playoffs are 7 months or so away. That is the only sport that matters.

These less important sports fill time between hockey seasons.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Tribe downs Beaners!!!!!

[Bicycle Bill]

NHL playoffs are 7 months or so away. That is the only sport that matters.

These less important sports fill time between hockey seasons.

Ah yes.  Ice hockey.  The sport where they play a six-month, 82-game season in order to eliminate 14 teams out of 30, and then sending the 16 remaining teams, eight from each conference, into a 3-round playoff tournament (best-of-seven conference quarterfinals, best-of-seven conference semi-finals, best-of-seven conference finals) before pairing up the two surviving teams for the actual Stanley Cup best-of-seven playoff — which means the ultimate Cup winner could have possibly had to play an additional 28 games over the course of another two-plus months before getting their chance to skate around with that monstrosity that calls itself a trophy.

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