(10-15-2022 07:01 PM)stever20 Wrote: Gotta love the Braves players bitching and moaning about not having any games at night.
So I looked. Braves day games this year.... 26-30 now including playoffs.
Braves got their asses whooped. Bottom line. You have starters pitch like crap like that, you aren't winning.
...and the dogs got their asses whooped as well in a series they definitely should have won handily. Perhaps the Yankers will, too. And Seattle but for Robby Ray, might have completed the sweep by the lesser teams.
First Congrats to the Phillies, who had I believe the third-best record after the Braves and dogs after they hired Roberts as their interim manager. They played a great strategy of solid baseball and didn't try to swing for the fences on every pitch. Their game planning against Braves starters was excellent, and as I said before after game 1 against the cardinals, they had the same magic we seemed to have last year. Good for them, they deserved the series win and their fans were great also.
As to your comment, yes it is quite unfair that Braves had to play every game during the day when it would have been more equitable to split the day games between the Yankers and the Braves at least. Baseball's favoritism continues, no doubt, but it is legitimate calling them out. To be sure, if it was the Nats instead of the Braves, they too would have been targeted unfairly by the commissioner's office. All teams deserve a more balanced scheduling opportunity when it comes to day/night games in postseason. And hard not to notice the Braves did win their rain-delayed evening game. Something to thing about going forward as they evaluate the effect of the new expanded playoff format.
I loved, loved, loved not having the ghost runners in the postseason, and it reminds fans why baseball series and playoff games can be so great. Shame anyone had to lose that Seattle/'stors game, but it was absolutely epic and riveting for the full duration. What a great series that was overall to watch. I had said that this year there were several legit teams, and that it would be tougher for all because literally anyone could have a real shot to win.
Next year no more shifting, and I guess we'll have pitch clocks in postseason so it will be very different with all the extra rules changes. Will probably need continued adjusting as not all of them will work the way planned.
If I had my 'druthers, I'd go back to 10 teams in postseason with one-game WC playoff, which seemed like the perfect and fairest compromise tom include WC teams. That won't happen, of course because money. But they might add 14 teams, so 4 WC teams. If so, then play two WC games per league, for 1 game each, then have two WC winners in each League play either 1 game or if they must, 3-game series to determine winner, then have that 1 WC winner play the top seed team. That would be how I'd handle it.
It has been a terrifically enjoyable postseason overall to watch as far as gameplay and drama. Sorry our boys didn't win, but we'll be right there again next season for sure.