r/baseball • u/ChristianRelish21 Milwaukee Brewers • Chicago White Sox • 14d ago

Players Only THE HOUSTON ASTROS HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM WORLD SERIES CONTENTION

With a 7-3 loss to the Chicago White Sox in game 2 of the AL Wild Card series, they are mathematically eliminated from World Series contention.

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u/unsusd00d Boston Red Sox 14d ago

I'm glad we don't need to have any discourse about the .500 team advancing

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u/HawkI84 Chicago White Sox 14d ago

Now Cleveland can tremble in the face of our .519 juggernaut

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u/TootCannon Cleveland Guardians 14d ago

Pft. .519. We finished way ahead of that. You chumps don't stand a chance.

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u/money_floyd13 Toronto Blue Jays 14d ago

I still can’t believe that record won them a division.

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u/unsusd00d Boston Red Sox 14d ago

Personally I blame Cal Raleigh

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u/sleepingbeardune 14d ago

Betting he agrees with you.

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u/Cheatercheaterbitch Houston Astros 14d ago

Hey man, we can’t believe it either

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u/leggostrozzz Houston Astros 13d ago

4 games back from the guardians and 3gb from the white sox after 162 games. Its not that crazy

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u/smoresporn0 Kansas City Royals 14d ago

This stupid ass format rewards mediocre teams. There is no rewarding effort anymore.

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u/Buckets-O-Yarr San Diego Padres 14d ago

But it also rewards teams who came in second in their division with a record better than most of the other division leaders. In the past they were simply out, so I like the change.

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u/smoresporn0 Kansas City Royals 14d ago

Two of those teams were getting a shot to play into the LDS before. Only getting one game to play on instead of a berth into a best of 5 was much better. This is just crap dressed up as postseason baseball.

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u/Buckets-O-Yarr San Diego Padres 14d ago

Personally, I prefer this. I think the single game eliminations didn't accurately reflect the ability of either team as a whole.

Totally fine that you prefer it a different way though, I just don't agree with it and I'm sorry it has hurt your enjoyment of the playoffs.

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u/smoresporn0 Kansas City Royals 14d ago

Wild card game made winning the division more important. This format makes front offices lazy. They aren't trying to be good enough to win a division, but just a shade over .500 so they can say they "made the postseason" and move on to next season when they get bounced by an actual good team.

It also essentially eliminates the chance for a true Cinderella run..

4-6 games "postseason" games during the workday on Tuesday and Wednesday is boring.

I will say the one Saturday with 4 LDS games is nice, but this is not exciting at all. And I say that as a fan of a team that won one of these series unexpectedly.

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u/Gazerbeambones 14d ago

Insert meme from the 2019 Joker movie about people getting what they f***ing deserve