Baseball Notes

[billroper]

Just got done watching the Rangers beat the Yankees by a score of 10-3, which gave me a warm comfortable feeling. As we say around the APBA table, a three-run homer beats the heck out of strategy. Now the Rangers lead 3-1 in the series. Of course, so did the Cubs a few years back.

Speaking of the Cubs, they've hired interim manager Mike Quade on a two-year contract, which seems to leave Ryne Sandberg out in the cold. Personally, I think this is a mistake, but it's not my billion dollars that's being played with, so...

I must admit that I'm enamored of the idea that Sandberg might end up with the Cardinals as Tony LaRussa's bench coach, because I think he'd get the top job there two years from now when Tony finally retires. I doubt it will happen, but it keeps me amused. :)

Comments

Re: Speaking of baseball...

[jennlk]

heh. and that was wrong. The Padres won the head-to-head with the Giants this season. What complicated things immensely is that Atlanta came in second in their division with (almost) the same record as the Padres & Giants. If Atlanta, SF, and SD had all finished the season with the same record, the Padres & Giants would have had a one-game playoff to determine the division champ. And then the loser of that game would have played Atlanta for the Wild Card.

Re: Speaking of baseball...

[billroper]

There's only a one game playoff if it will determine which team gets into the playoffs. If two teams are tied for the division lead, but they have a better record than any of the other teams that are not division leaders, then one tied team wins the division and the other team is the wild card. There are a number of tiebreakers, starting with head-to-head record and ending (I believe) with a coin flip.

But if another non-division winner has the same or better record than the teams tied for the division lead, then there's a playoff to see who will be the wild card team.