Comments on: The Outside Looking In https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/ Bronx Banter Blog, Served Fresh Daily Mon, 23 Oct 2023 23:24:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 By: OldYanksFan https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404029 Mon, 23 Oct 2023 23:24:55 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404029 Arizona up 5 to 1, after 6 1/2. If they win, that will be 12 games without any Home team wins. That must be pretty rare.

]]> By: rob_smith_51 https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404028 Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:44:15 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404028 The home team didn’t even have a lead until game 5 in the ALCS. The Astros took the lead though in game 5, trailed then came back to win at home.

]]> By: OldYanksFan https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404027 Sun, 22 Oct 2023 05:47:55 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404027 Am I wrong, or have they played 10 games, with the Home team losing all 10.

]]> By: OldYanksFan https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404025 Sat, 21 Oct 2023 00:11:40 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404025 SHIT! Houston scores 3 in the top of the 9th, on an Altuve HR, to take the lead, 5 to 4. I thought the Rangers had this one.

]]> By: OldYanksFan https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404024 Sat, 21 Oct 2023 00:08:18 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404024 “I guess you’ll have some free time in October since the Yankees won’t be playing.”
Well.. I guess your friend’s season was all of 3 games more than the Yankees!

Can I assume we are all rooting for Texas (against Houston)?

I would like to point out that in April, ESPN polled their ‘experts’ as to what the post season would bring. It was the Yankees who got the most votes to win the division and to play the World Series. One even went to far as to say the Yankees, with Cole, Rodon, Nestor, Severino and German, hade the best rotation, and best BP in the AL.

While this team had/has flaws, on paper, Cashman did a decent job of putting the team together. But you got to play the games. Injuries and radically underperforming players killed us.

]]> By: Shaun P. https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404022 Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:27:06 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404022 [10] I suspect he isn’t – and given why she departed Miami, I suspect she’s not interested in coming back as an assistant GM, so probably a reunion isn’t in the works. Sadly for us because I think she did a great job with the Marlins.

While I would not get rid of Cashman, it they did, Ng would be a great replacement.

Side note – wow, what a disfunctional mess that organization is. Seems even clearer why Jeter left now as well.

]]> By: Shaun P. https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404021 Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:21:27 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404021 [9] This is a good discussion, Hank!

On a related note, this BP article was really interesting in terms of all these upsets (hopefully the spam filter doesn’t freeze the comment)

https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/86139/veteran-presence-mlb-postseason-upsets/

]]> By: rbj https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404020 Tue, 17 Oct 2023 02:45:07 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404020 Through in Bam Bam as the new manager and maybe Judge doesn’t get screwed on low strikes. Sort of like the Gretzky rule.

]]> By: OldYanksFan https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404019 Tue, 17 Oct 2023 02:19:28 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404019 [10] I thought the name sounded familiar:
“In March 1998, she was recruited by General Manager Brian Cashman to work for the New York Yankees as assistant general manager, becoming the youngest in the major leagues, at age 29, and the second woman ever to hold the position”

]]> By: rbj https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404018 Tue, 17 Oct 2023 00:33:36 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404018 Kim Ng is now available, Hal. In case you’re interested in making changes.

]]> By: Hank Waddles https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404017 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 16:11:56 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404017 [8] Thanks, Shaun. This makes a lot of sense. And to your point, while I remember that the 2000 Yankees had the worst record of that run, I had no memory that they were also the eighth-best playoff team that year. We remember what we want, I suppose.

The other problem is that this particular year is a fluke. I can’t imagine we’ll see the top four teams all flame out very often. I will now sit back down on my porch and stop yelling at the clouds.

]]> By: Shaun P. https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404016 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 11:55:36 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404016 [6] [7] Yes but this is the system we’ve had for 54 years now. Does anyone think the 1987 Twins (85 wins) were better than the Tigers (98 wins) or the Cardinals (95 wins)? Yet they beat both teams. A little closer to home, the 2000 Yankees had the worst record of the 8 playoff teams, but they also won it all. Did that make them the best?

Yet both were exciting postseasons all around (Mets and Cardinals fans mileage may vary due to the Worlds Series) and while the outcomes were not the 2 or 4 teams in the regular season with the most wins facing off, they were and are still remembered as fun.

I much prefer the quality assessment the regular season provides (side note – IIRC even 162 games doesn’t tell us who the “best” teams actually are given 30 teams; I think Russell Carleton studied this once and determined we’d need like a 242 game regular season to do that!).

But I don’t think that makes the playoffs bad. It just makes it a tournament – and many people like when underdogs win in tournaments (myself included except when the Yanks lose to an underdog:) ). It doesn’t have to indicate or mean anything, other than who won the tournament. For me, variance is part of what makes baseball fun.

]]> By: OldYanksFan https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404015 Fri, 13 Oct 2023 03:24:47 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404015 I agree that the system gives small market teams a better chance. Is it good for baseball? Well, there isn’t as much money in it, especially looking at TV revenue. The Post Season typically doesn’t reward the best 2 teams.

Anyway… the Braves lose the series, so now the top 4 teams are already eliminated.

I’m guessing it Houston against the Philies.

]]> By: Hank Waddles https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404014 Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:52:53 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404014 [5] This is my problem with the playoff system. The NBA could expand their playoffs to include every single team and they’d still end up with the top four teams in the end. Baseball obviously isn’t like that. It’s certainly exciting to see the Diamondbacks sweep the Dodgers, but they aren’t a great team, maybe not even a good team. They had a negative run differential.

I guess it’s good for these small market teams, and maybe it’s even good that teams know they can’t just buy their way into the World Series, but is this good for baseball? I’d be MUCH more interested in watching the Braves and Dodgers in the NLCS, two one-hundred-win teams, than I will in watching the Phillies and Diamondbacks. (And by the way, I know I’m supposed to love what’s happening in Philadelphia, but I find it all a bit obnoxious. And don’t get me started on Brandon Marsh.)

Oh, and I’m sure will see more playoff teams in the future, not fewer. It’s a shame.

]]> By: OldYanksFan https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404013 Thu, 12 Oct 2023 04:33:33 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404013 Well, 2 of the 3 hundred winners are swept in the ALDS. And the Phils are up 2 to 1 with the Braves, MLB’s best team this year. 100 teams making the playoffs might be more fun, but it seems rare that the bast team wins it all.

]]> By: RIYank https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404011 Wed, 11 Oct 2023 22:55:20 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404011 Wait, [2], there are no trash can Rangers. You’re thinking of the Astros.

]]> By: Shaun P. https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404010 Tue, 10 Oct 2023 03:19:06 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404010 Also pulling for two particular Twins named Sonny Gray and Joey Gallo. Maybe if the fans at Yankee Stadium had the good sense that the baseball gods gave Phillies fans, they’d both have played in more postseasons with the Yankees and the last 4 years (especially this one) would have been different. And we’d probably still have Jordan Montgomery, who the Yanks really could have used… Ah well.

]]> By: Shaun P. https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404009 Tue, 10 Oct 2023 03:12:39 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404009 [1] Good thing they play the games, instead of simulating them. In 2019, I remember how the Phillies didn’t go for it at the deadline, because they were like, “Why would we do it, just to run into the Dodgers in the playoffs?” Even before the Nationals made them look so stupid, I thought it was very stupid. It’s a short series, anything can happen! But it won’t if you don’t get in.

[0] In the meantime, at least the Rays are already out, and the O’s are on the verge of going out. I can cheer plenty for the Twins as long as they send the Trash Can Bangers home. Once those 3 are all eliminated, the rest is gravy. Go baseball!

]]> By: Hank Waddles https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2023/10/09/the-outside-looking-in/#comment-404008 Tue, 10 Oct 2023 01:53:14 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=128514#comment-404008 In the first two games of their series, Dodger starting pitchers have gotten six batters out total. Which, you know, isn’t good.

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