MLB 2022: Playing Ball, But Is Anyone Still Watching?

[French Rage]

There is something incredibly wrong with seeing seeds in the score chyron for the MLB postseason.

[MichVandal]

So Seattle gets to have some home games afterall. Nice comeback. Crazy one, but nice.

[Jimjamesak]

A guy at the watch party in Seattle put a shoe on his head and the Mariners started to come back. It spread through the watch party and now #rallyshoe is a thing.

[Kepler]

Between crowd noise and pitching changes, the Mets have batted for 40 minutes in the bottom of the 7th and recorded one out.

The shortest 9-inning game in ML history is 51 minutes.

[Bronco]

Between crowd noise and pitching changes, the Mets have batted for 40 minutes in the bottom of the 7th and recorded one out.

The shortest 9-inning game in ML history is 51 minutes.

Yeah when I wrote earlier that I was against pitching clocks in the post season, I was wrong. 15 seconds from end of pitch to release of next pitch.

[Scarlet]

I didn't realize that all the games in the Wild Card series were played in the same city.

[French Rage]

I didn't realize that all the games in the Wild Card series were played in the same city.

It's like the whole thing is poorly thought out and implemented.

[JF_Gophers]

It's like the whole thing is poorly thought out and implemented.

Not having a travel day (or 2) was the smartest thing they did!

[MichVandal]

It's like the whole thing is poorly thought out and implemented.

I see your point- but at the same time JF's point is more important- there's already more than enough baseball playoffs- Mr October is going to end up being Mr December if we drag this on much longer. BB should be relieved that so few northern teams are in, so the risk of snow outs or players getting frost bite is left to Cleveland, New York, and Philly.

[French Rage]

I see your point- but at the same time JF's point is more important- there's already more than enough baseball playoffs- Mr October is going to end up being Mr December if we drag this on much longer. BB should be relieved that so few northern teams are in, so the risk of snow outs or players getting frost bite is left to Cleveland, New York, and Philly.

Going back to a single WC game per league would save even more time and actually make sense.

[JF_Gophers]

Going back to a single WC game per league would save even more time and actually make sense.

We all know there is no "going back".

[French Rage]

We all know there is no "going back".

True; no takebacks once additional playoff games are added.

[MichVandal]

Going back to a single WC game per league would save even more time and actually make sense.

It certainly would be nice.

The sad thing is that the DS series will probably go 7 games next. Because income.

[aparch]

It's like the whole thing is poorly thought out and implemented.

[French Rage]

"OK so we'll have a wild-card round, and it will contain 3 wild cards......and a division winner. OK, I guess the NFL kinda does that, so it's not too weird. So we'll have that division winner host one of those games, and the other is hosted by.....a wild card team. So one WC-WC game and one DW-WC game, that makes consistent sense."