your 2010 postseason schedule

theme song "Gone til November":

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/schedule/ps.jsp

The seeding shocker could be the Twins having the best AL record.

Yep, really shocking.

Whatever keeps them from facing the Yankees in the first round is preferable.

well the Yankees need to finish first then

Yankees wd be totally beatable if Twins get home-field and Morneau was playing, though.

frog, wings, ass, lilypad, etc

I envision a series-ending Jeter K nonetheless

Jeter gets HBP - ump calls it a foul. strikes out next pitch flailing the bat with his now fractured wrist in a most embarrassing manner.

i would convert to islam immediately if that happened

iirc the yankees got at least one favorable bullshit ump call in the last alds.. whats another one between friends?

so who thinks Twins will be tougher than Rangers?

*raises hand, with the understanding that they're better if gardenhire doesn't do some wack ass shit

yes, let's hope he's off whatever prescrips he had during that play-in w/ DET last year.

is the playoff schedule not resolved until its determined who has best record? clearly nyy and tb wont play each other..

click link at top; that's all we got

Yeah, wouldn't the Twins likely be facing off against the Yankees at this point? (Thus leading to another crippling 3-0 rout?)

Only a game separates TB and NYY in the East, whoever finishes 2nd gets the Twinks.

(you can find this stuff out in a newsroom, I betcha)

if the only the rays and yanks were playing each other this final weekend instead of this nyy/bos RIVALRY espn crap. it would be pretty hilarious to see a race to the bottom - dropped cans of corn and carlos pena outpitching burnett or vazquez by accident.

My point was, not the Rangers, but I'm now seeing what you meant in that post.

skrit, I'm not sure either team wd rather face MIN

let's see those hands, i'm still not sold.

ditto

if josh hamilton is totally healthy, i think the rangers are better

cliff.ly and a passel of straightedgers? don't want to go near that in a best of 5.

c.j. wilson > whoever the twins are offering up aside from liriano

although a healthy, locked in morneau makes it a wash.

is mourneau gonna play?

not to mention that he hasn't seen major league pitching since july

Wilson's 100+ IP increase could be wearing on him. His six-start September: 27.1 IP, 14 BB, 6.26 ERA.

yeah maybe

by the same token

slowey in sept: 5.19 ERA, .312 BAA
pavano in spet: 6.12 ERA, .306 BAA

i guess the message is that we're gonna be seeing a yankees/rays alcs regardless

how much better than the Rangers and the Twins are the Red Sox?

in current state of health?

what a sooprise, first 2 TB-TEX games are in weekday afternoon dead zone.

stub hubbed a cheapish SF game 5 ticket this past Friday.. looks like my schedule estimating worked out.

I just wanna see an ALCS that's played indoors in St Pete and outdoors in Minneapolis.

Dunno if anyone's mentioned this yet, but 2010 is only the third season since the advent of the wild card where the eight playoff teams also had the eight best regular-season records. (This was also the case in 2002 and 2004.)

anyone have a link to the winning the DS and CS odds done by this guy? http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/ps_odds.php
or does he just update this page?

this is what i was looking for: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/postseasonodds.php

i guess they're not doing it this year

I think it's just late

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/10/29/bud-selig-says-hes-open-to-expanding-playoffs/

Let's have the 162-game season determine the seeding in a single-game-elimination World Tournament.

But Selig said he is concerned about the playoffs stretching too deep into the cold-weather season, saying “we’ll look at everything, but look, I’m already concerned.”

That quote sums up the Bud Selig years in a nutshell. When it comes to taking things into consideration, he's the best commish the game has ever had.