The MLB Thread

Congratulations to Domingo German for tossing the 24th perfect game in MLB history.

...OK, it was against the A's, but still.

September baseball is a crazy thing. The Marlins are fighting tooth and nail for a wild card spot, and their recent series against the long-since-eliminated Mets has been plagued by problems with Citi Field. Tuesday's game was postponed and turned into a double header with Wednesday's game (which plays havoc with the Marlins rotation and making sure their pitchers get enough rest). Thursday's game was put on a rain delay during the top of the 9th in the midst of a dramatic rally by the Marlins (they went into the 9th trailing 0-1, then scored twice and had two runners on base when the delay was called), held for three hours, and then the game was finally suspended at 1 AM. The Marlins are booked at the Pirates for the next three days, so unless they clinch their wildcard spot by then (they're currently half a game ahead of the Cubs), they'll have to go back to New York on Monday to finish one inning and complete the game, and potentially start their playoff bid on Tuesday.

So naturally, the Mets grounds team takes a selfie in front of the Marlins dugout before packing it in for the night. Jesus Christ, guys, even if you're doing your absolute dead-level best and it's just an unfortunate situation, this is not a good look.

The playoff seeds are set:

Since the pitch clock's been so successful I hope MLB gets it through their heads that they don't need the "ghost runner" for the regular season.

Honestly I'm just psyched that I'll actually be able to watch a Marlins game on TV. Nothing in my area carries the right channel except for an actual cable TV subscription — which I haven't had in years and I can't justify solely for live sports. But post-season stuff, that I can watch!

99 wins, and my team has to play in the Wild Card Series, Lol, fuck, man.

Edited by erazor0707 on Oct 1st 2023 at 8:56:48 AM

Sad to see my Mariners miss the playoffs entirely when three teams with worse records get in (including one division winner), but such is life.

The Twins just won a playoff game.

Took em 19 tries, but they finally did it. I guess UrinatingTree will call them by their normal name now.

That was fast.

Well, I got to watch the Marlins live again.

It did not make me happy.

99 wins and another first round exit. Baseball sucks.

NLCS game 3 is currently tied entering the 9th, making it the first postseason game this year to be decided in the last inning.

Always great to see a team win its first title, especially if they'd existed for over half a century and they once came an out away from a title(twice in one game, no less). Even though it's only been 12 years Elvis Andrus is the only player from their 2011 World Series roster still in the majors(Nelson Cruz, who has to be breathing a huge sigh of relief, played this year with the Padres but was released on July 10).

Ironically for a team once owned by George W. Bush, the Rangers have consistently done better under Democratic presidents since they moved to Texas. By contrast, appropriately for a team whose mascot is the elephant, the A's have consistently done better under Republicans.

Congrats to the Rangers for ending another one of UrinatingTree's Legacies of Failure.

5 teams without WS titles now...

Don't remind me. I'm a fan of the only team that's never even been to a World Series.

My condolences. T_T

And Cleveland's the only pre-expansion team that's never won a title in the expansion era. In fact, of the teams that actually have won a title the team with the longest drought besides Cleveland is Pittsburgh and their last title was in 1979, after three of the teams that have never won a title were created.

NPR: A's are officially going to move to Las Vegas by 2028 after owners unanimously approve. They will play in Oakland for 2024, but the lease runs out next year. A new $1.5 billion stadium for the A's is to be built on the site of the to-be-demolished Tropicana by 2028; we have no idea what they will do for 2025-27.

My mother always told me that if the only thing I have to say is "fuck John Fisher," then I shouldn't say anything. So I'm not going to comment on this news.

As much as this sucks for Oakland fans, I think how long they've been in Oakland overstates how good a baseball town it is; their attendance has rarely been above average even though they've had more winning than losing seasons(not to mention four World Series titles).

I feel like you can hardly blame fans for not going to the games when the stadium is a shithole and every player the fans might latch onto gets traded away. There's a playbook for making a team move look justified (as a Seattle resident, I saw it with the Sonics), and Fisher has followed it to a T.

Their attendance was 3rd-worst in MLB in 1974, when they won their 3rd straight title and the park was only 8 years old.

I wouldn't go either if my team's home stadium was in dire straits. Clearly, Fisher didn't care enough.