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Dreamcast 96: The Dream Matchup

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As Rob Manfred climaxes from another LA vs NY matchup, MLB will get their marquee championship event with the best team from each league, among the fattest payrolls with the brightest stars in the largest media markets in the world. Topics for this episode include: You can check out the podcast page or just click on the embedded players below. …

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Pennant Chase In Progress

In Major League Baseball, Playoffs by Rice Cube113 Comments

I feel like the term “pennant chase” is used kind of to describe the race to the postseason during the regular season, but you don’t actually get to win a pennant until you are the last team standing in the league championship series. I guess you also don’t get a pennant once you win the World Series because the prize …

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Dreamcast 95: Embracing Chaos

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With the playoffs underway, we yak about the games that have happened, discuss some fun tweaks to the playoff format, talk about how the Cubs can get back to the postseason in 2025 (with more coming after this year’s World Series), and some thoughts on the late Pete Rose. You can check out the podcast page or just click on …

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About the MLB Postseason…

In Major League Baseball, Playoffs by Rice Cube48 Comments

So we were talking about the way the MLB playoff system is set up in the previous post, and given how three of the road teams just advanced this past week, two of them relatively easily, I guess part of the calculus is trying to figure out a way to ensure the home team has a greater advantage. Then, once …

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The 2024 MLB Postseason

In Playoffs by Rice Cube131 Comments

The field and seedings are finalized now that the last teams standing did the split thing and bounced the Diamondbacks in an indirect act of revenge for the Cubs. Make your picks. Or don’t. I can’t tell you what to do.

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All is Lost

In Commentary And Analysis by Rice Cube90 Comments

I’ve been diligently looking for work and have some interviews here and there, hopefully something sticks soon. And I guess the timing is good for when I start an eventual new job because the Cubs’ season is over: The Cubs now sit at 79-76 on the season. The Diamondbacks and Mets currently hold the last 2 National League Wild-Card spots …

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In Before Getting the Live Chicken

In Major League Baseball by Rice Cube132 Comments

In between searching for new employment and whatever else is going on in real life right now, I thought I’d temper some expectations and doom with some math. Funny enough, the only mention of “math” in the OV archives is one of the old comics about Joe Mather of all people, but I’m too lazy to grab something math-y from …

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Dreamcast 94: Mission – Improbable!

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With the Cubs’ odds shrinking by the day, we jabronis got together to commiserate and cling to the last threads of hope before mathematical elimination. Stuff we talked about: You can check out the podcast page or just click on the embedded players below. You can also use the sidebar to get to our Apple Podcast pages and leave a …

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The Ever-Diminishing Odds

In Commentary And Analysis by Rice Cube86 Comments

It’s a Cubs off day, so that’s about time to check in on our favorite squadron’s slim chances of making a difference this season… Given all this, I guess we continue to be thankful that most of the National League still blows and the Cubs haven’t been mathematically eliminated yet, unlike certain neighbors to the south. The road to the …

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Off Day Items

In Race To The Top by Rice Cube122 Comments

The Cubs have actually won a couple series in a row, and if we conveniently ignore the cesspool of suck that was most of May through July, they’ve actually been playing much better baseball and reflecting what we thought they could be in spring training. The problem, of course, is all the losses they’ve already banked, but them’s the breaks …