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Reply #60 on: September 28, 2022, 03:55:40 PM
As MissB knows, here in Chicago, it is always wait until next year. The Cubs were expected to go nowhere, and they haven't but the White Sox were supposed to clinch their division and will be lucky to end up at .500. 

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Reply #61 on: September 28, 2022, 04:34:13 PM
Guess my Twins will be trying to foil the Sox plans for that. After leading the Division most of the season they fell apart. Last night Twins easily handled the White Sox. We'll see how rest of the series goes.

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Reply #62 on: September 29, 2022, 03:04:14 PM
Your Twins took another game from the White Sox last night.

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Reply #63 on: September 29, 2022, 03:11:49 PM
It's too little too late, but maybe they can finish the season at .500 or a tad above. Much better that last year's showing.

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Reply #64 on: October 04, 2022, 05:39:47 PM

Another naive question from across the pond (I did play for a teenage UK baseball team very briefly).  Looking at the National League standings on my mobile/tablet shows the Brewers as being 2 games behind a wild card place with 2 games to go and they have a 1 in the E# column but it looks like there are already 6 teams in the playoff.  Am I reading this correctly?

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Reply #65 on: October 04, 2022, 09:55:47 PM
The Brewers have been eliminated.

Only two days remain in the 2022 Major League Baseball season and the expanded, 12-team playoff bracket is nearly finalized. The 12 postseason teams are set and all that remains undecided is the NL East winner, and wild-card seeding. The entire postseason bracket could be finalized by end of day Tuesday. Monday night the Phillies became the 12th and final team into the postseason. It is their first postseason trip since 2011, snapping the National League's longest drought.

Clinched spots
Dodgers: Clinched NL West, first-round bye, home field throughout postseason
Astros: Clinched AL West, first-round bye, home field through ALCS
Mets: Clinched playoff berth
Braves: Clinched playoff berth
Yankees: Clinched AL East, first-round bye, home field through ALDS
Guardians: Clinched AL Central
Cardinals: Clinched NL Central
Blue Jays: Clinched AL wild-card spot
Mariners: Clinched AL wild-card spot
Rays: Clinched AL wild-card spot
Padres: Clinched NL wild-card spot
Phillies: Clinched NL wild-card spot

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Reply #66 on: October 05, 2022, 12:47:09 PM
Quote from: Pornhubby on October 04, 2022, 09:55:47 PM
The Brewers have been eliminated.


So the table on the MLB mobile website was wrong?

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Reply #67 on: October 05, 2022, 04:24:43 PM
Quote from: ObiDongKenobi on October 05, 2022, 12:47:09 PM
Quote from: Pornhubby on October 04, 2022, 09:55:47 PM
The Brewers have been eliminated.


So the table on the MLB mobile website was wrong?

I don’t have that one. I have ESPN and Sports Alerts. Neither of them showed Brewers in the hunt. It’s a new playoff format this year. Six teams from each league.

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Reply #68 on: October 06, 2022, 12:34:05 PM
I read about the new format.  Obviously updated now after the next game but the MLB mobile site definitely had the  6 NL teams you listed as being in the playoffs and the Brewers in 7th place without an E against them.

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Reply #69 on: October 10, 2022, 02:17:45 PM

Saw the end of the first Seattle v Toronto game.  That Cimber bloke has a weird pitching action; shame I won't be seeing any more of him.

Three of my "support by proximity" teams have now gone out at the wild card stage  :(

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Reply #70 on: October 11, 2022, 12:52:56 PM

Are you talking about teams that you were geographically close to during visits to the US? Not a bad way to choose, I suppose. So who are you rooting for among the eight teams left?

Consider the diehard New York Mets fans. The Mets ended the regular season tied with Atlanta for the NL East title, and were relegated to the wild card series by the tie-breaker. In the wild card series, their season was ended by a team (San Diego) that finished 22 games behind the NL West division winner (LA Dodgers).

If that wasn't bad enough, the team that finished 3rd (Philadelphia) in the NL East, 14 games behind the Mets, also advanced to the next series while the Mets' season is over.

Everyone knows that the best team doesn't always win, that's why they play the game. Such things are easily (if somewhat flippantly) explained by two words.

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Reply #71 on: October 11, 2022, 08:24:55 PM
Quote from: purpleshoes on October 11, 2022, 12:52:56 PM

Are you talking about teams that you were geographically close to during visits to the US? Not a bad way to choose, I suppose. So who are you rooting for among the eight teams left?


Based on time spent in their home city and/or state it would be (in descending order)

San Diego Padres
LA Dodgers
Philadelphia
New York Yankees
Houston Astros

Never been near the other three 


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Reply #72 on: October 12, 2022, 01:30:38 PM
I didn't realise that the Seatle-Houston game was an early start.  Switched on just in time for the 8th & 9th innings  A woo for that Alvarez.



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Reply #73 on: October 22, 2022, 03:15:20 PM
Another naive question.

I caught a few minutes of the SD v Phillies game last night.  There was a hit that imparted a terrific spin on the ball which totally bamboozled the fielder (third base I think).  The commentator described the ball as having "terrific english".  If I didn't mishear, anyone know the orrigin of this?


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Reply #74 on: October 22, 2022, 06:25:10 PM
Quote from: ObiDongKenobi on October 22, 2022, 03:15:20 PM
Another naive question.

I caught a few minutes of the SD v Phillies game last night.  There was a hit that imparted a terrific spin on the ball which totally bamboozled the fielder (third base I think).  The commentator described the ball as having "terrific english".  If I didn't mishear, anyone know the orrigin of this?

I know it's used in billiards, and I think golf. Maybe any sport where you make the ball spin. "Body english" or motion it goes through...  I could be way off here.


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Reply #75 on: October 22, 2022, 07:29:14 PM
1959 Sunday Times [London] 5 Apr. 4/5: The billiard term ‘putting on the English’, which Atticus states is current parlance in American bowling circles. The story goes that an enterprising gentleman from these shores travelled to the United States during the latter part of the last century and impressed the Americans with a demonstration of the effect of ‘side’ on pool or billiard balls. His name was English.

It seems the term originated around 1900.  It now is used to apply to putting a spin on any kind of ball, but it originated as a billiard reference.

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Reply #76 on: October 22, 2022, 07:41:01 PM
Sounds about right to me. Get a certain spin on the ball can make it harder to hit in baseball, yet still stay in the strike zone.

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Reply #77 on: October 23, 2022, 12:39:23 PM
Quote from: Pornhubby on October 22, 2022, 07:29:14 PM
1959 Sunday Times [London] 5 Apr. 4/5: The billiard term ‘putting on the English’, which Atticus states is current parlance in American bowling circles. The story goes that an enterprising gentleman from these shores travelled to the United States during the latter part of the last century and impressed the Americans with a demonstration of the effect of ‘side’ on pool or billiard balls. His name was English.

It seems the term originated around 1900.  It now is used to apply to putting a spin on any kind of ball, but it originated as a billiard reference.

Wow, thanks for the info. And yet we never use that expression in the UK.

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Reply #78 on: October 25, 2022, 06:26:26 AM
Not particularly a fan of either team in the World Series, but I'll be pulling for the Astros.


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Reply #79 on: October 25, 2022, 02:05:55 PM

My proximity support meter leads me to the Astros.  But I always like to see underdogs triumph.


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