Yes, I was a Giants fan then. Now, I am a Padres fan and I never could have imagined they would do so well this year!

@@loverofcalifornia3619 I’m sorry what

Funny number

Let’s go Phillies.

The team's this year who gained over 100 wins through the year, get a bye week which is great. But when you have an entire week of no real game time gameplay, that's not too much of a bonus for the best team's. Your correct, any team can win.. But, the terrible part is the top team's who usually attract the most revenue are getting terrible game start times and a break that's longer than the all star break. That's not a "bonus" , to reward the top playing teams.

Exactly they’re just down bad lol😂

I’m a cardinals fan and as much as our collapse hurt, watching Mets, Braves and Dodgers all kicked out was fun

And the dodgers always lose too

Every time I see that I’m just like, “would you rather play in elimination games and deplete your bullpen?”

Phillies definitely beat the Cardinals fair and square but I don’t think the Cardinals should’ve been in the wild card series in the first place. They won their division and had to play a team who got third place in their division.

I just looked it up cause I just started watching baseball this year. Awesome. But I have a question Is the reason why all 3 scores were allowed in that 8th inning because Soto had advanced past first? He ended up getting out between 2nd and 3rd after runners scored. But from what I’ve seen, with 2 outs, if a runner at 3rd scores but the defense gets the hitter out at first the score doesn’t count. So it must be because Soto advanced past first right?

@@OnlyFacts662 So, there are two rules in question here, both good questions too! (On a side note, I love more people getting into baseball, it's such a unique sport.) First situation is two outs and a runner on third. If the batter puts the ball in play then then batter must safely get to first for the run to score. Even if the runner on third makes it home before the batter or the ball gets to first base, but the batter is eventually out at first, the run does not score. In this situation, you are absolutely correct. Soto's single to right field meant that any runner crossing the plate before he is tagged out score. Now, if he gets tagged out before Rendon, the runner on first in this instance, crosses the plate then that run would not score, but the two before it would.

@@JonathanMartin884 thanks for clarifying that for me I appreciate it!

Also imagine if the Nats kept Soto and Harper

love comments like these, cool research stat

The Mets fan glossed over the Fightins’ 😊

Only because of Rob Manfred

This is the correct take. The top AL seeds advanced to their LCS. Its not a format issue, its an execution issue. The Braves and Dodgers didn't execute and are home golfing because of it.

The Dodgers are notorious chokers. The only season they won it all was the covid year where what, 1/2 a season?

@@Rockhound6165 only 60 games so less than half a season.

Well this is true but then again, without this current playoff format, neither the Padres nor the Phillies would even be where they are in the first place.

Well, maybe not the Mets, as they would have been the wild card with the best record. But I think that there is something inheritently wrong with a format that seems to reward a team that finishes 20 games behind the first place team. If a system like this existed in the 1950"s, would the Yankees have won the amount of championships that they did? Who knows?

It's less about that and more about the best teams going head to head. We don't really have that this year.

​@@pigjubby1 Probably because the Dodgers had a 14-5 record vs SD this year. Led the league in wins, runs, runs allowed, run differential, and finished 22 games ahead of SD yet still lost. I would assume the Dodgers would be considered better over the course of the season than the Padres. But that is why sports are fun.

“Play” or your “off”

@@pigjubby1 I'm not sure what you're asking here. How can a better team lose to a lesser team? It happens all the time. The best teams in baseball still lose to the worst teams in baseball every so often. Sometimes that bad team will win a series or sweep the better team. Maybe the better team is cold. Maybe the lesser team found weaknesses to exploit. Maybe the lesser team is riding momentum. It happens all the time. That doesn't mean the lesser team deserves to have a playoff spot. That's why there 162 games. Cream rises to the top.. The better teams are going to win more games. They are going to win their division. They are the ones that should be going at it in the playoffs, not teams like the Phillies and/or Padres. That's what the playoffs is about. The best of the regular season going at eachother for one final series, all or nothing. Expanding the eligibility means you don't have the best teams going at it anymore. You're pulling in a bunch of second and third place teams and it sours the playoffs as well as makes the regular season mean as much.

@@pigjubby1 who are you talking about? I'm talking about this in a very general sense. Are you referring to a specific team?

Like dave roberts managing a team in the playoffs has a huge affect on their ability to win

@@pigjubby1 both Huston and dodgers are great team, Huston doesn't have Dave Roberts as a manger and that's why they are still in it.

@@ForTheLongCon They're both teams that are just finishing up rebuilds, they're probably on and off wildcard teams for a few years unless they brutally gut their rosters this offseason.

@@shawn3902 So if/when the Phillies beat the Astros in the WS, are you going to call for Dusty Baker's firing?

Yeah but they won the west and we're 98-64 that year.

And got SWEPT in 4!!! By the NYY.

@@carlososcarcomedy yeah no shit sherlock

@@carlososcarcomedy go back to losing to the astros

@@brix1094fuckhandles lol

I agree. With that said, if that's the case, then what's the point of the entire 162-game regular season? Just win enough games to make the post-season then see what happens? The Dodgers choked and the Padres outplayed them, no doubt about it, but they finished +20 something games ahead of the Padres, and what was it good for... a "deciding" Game 5 at home, which they didn't even make it to? If the only thing that matters for the championship is a post-season tournament, then why even play a 162-game regular season? It won't happen, and I'm not even saying it should, but if we want to make it "more fair," I think the best way would be to have the "home team" with the better record have more home games, four home games in a best of 5 series(2-1-2 format) and five home games in a best of 7 series(3-2-2), it certainly wouldn't guarantee the "home team" a series victory, but it would give them a greater advantage, which some might say they earned over the course of the regular season.

Same with the Phillies! Can't even believe they are in the NLCS! And winning the first game by a 1 hit shut out.

@@seanguzy9601 wheeler was a BEAST that game only giving up one hit is terrific

The braves lost to the Phillies because the Phillies showed up when it mattered and have an all around better team except for their bullpen.

The Mets should have been third seed because they had the third best record in the nl, how is it fair that the first place cardinals who had a worse record were a higher seed. The cardinals would've been lucky to make the playoffs if they were in the nl east

@@seanguzy9601 World Series baby

Their owners went all in to win and it’s paying off. Hader for example has been huge the Friars and Harpers contract well worth it

Only reason Phillies was below 90 wins cause of Harper was injured. People love down playing us

@Est0ry3r. I'll also contribute a good chunk of that to Girardi. Plain and simple he DID NOT have an answer with Harper injured and just gave up.

@@est0ry3r.26 They actually were 55-55 with him and 32-20 without.

Idk it being a sweep was pretty chaotic tbh

phillies and yankees are not small market. and now the padres have proven they are no longer small market either.

@@ppshootecopew.- you must not know what small market mrans

@@Gabe-zm9vh have u seen the phillies payroll? they are top 5

Neither of these teams are small market. Both top 5-10 in payroll

@@ppshootecopew.- If I'm not mistaken, the Astros are also not a small market team.

They do ladder tournaments in foreign baseball leagues. It’s not so farfetched.

Make lower seeded teams play away for entire playoff series. At least not games 3 and 4

@@davisbalser203 GO away.

The Braves get a pass because they won it all last year. The Dodgers, Mets and Cardinals do not get a pass.

I think the braves just got cold during the bye

Seems to be a running theme to blame the "system" one operates in instead of taking responsibility for the outcomes you create for yourself nowadays.

Baseball requires repetition to stay locked in.

@@pigjubby1No one is saying that you can't win after the bye but you're likely going to have two of the four "bye" teams go ice cold during the break every year.

@@87Khein would you rather play in the wildcard game then? even with the momentum loss, the chances of making it through to the alcs/nlcs is still higher having the bye

@@87Khein You literally contradicted your first reply. You just said not all 4 teams are going to be ice cold. Meaning your original reply that baseball requires repetition to stay locked in is false.

I agree with this. Only thing it would've changed this year would be swapping who the Phillies and Padres played, and even then...considering the Braves and Dodgers both lost without even forcing a Game 5, it might not have mattered anyway

The Mets didn't get those days off yet they still got bounced. Simply put, they, the Braves, and the Dodgers didn't show up while the Padres and Phillies did. Each team earned their Ls and Ws.

@@Khaoki That was a 3 game series with the mets. Also, I mentioned the new format POSSIBLY being an issue based on performance of 4 teams. If this ends up being a pattern in the next season or so, then it should be addressed by MLB.

@@ForTheLongCon not sure what that means, but Okay???

@@raybarrios8813 they're saying you comment makes sense but the casual fan base won't understand you because they aren't intelligent

That's because the top NL teams are way better than the top AL teams.

@@supreme1572 by the top NL teams, you mean the Padres and Phillies, right?

The Astros and Yankees did not look good in their wins. Don't assume they won 10-0 each game. Houston had a lucky game 1 and struggled in game 3

@@Acetag31 What's your point Acetag? Play the games and shut up when your team loses.

@@swordfromthemouth yes the Padres, Phillies, Cardinals are all way better teams than the Mariners, Blue Jays and Guardians.

Same here. There was frustration that LA steadfastly refused to show up but after that I was actually pulling for the Padres since they were the only team without a championship tainted or otherwise.

Apparently these people have no idea there is such a thing as the ALCS going on with the number 1 and 2 seeds playing

@@kylegross1081 there's just a lot of bitching about this playoffs, everyone is being so whiny for literally no reason. "Better team" nonsense needs to stop because if they truly were better, they wouldn't have lost in 4 games

@@silentstorm5439 couldn’t agree more. Every team knows you need to be playing your best in the postseason. Part of being the best team means knowing how to not peak to early in the season.

As I said above the Phillies had no advantage at all considering they ended the season on a 10 game road trip then played their first 4 playoff games on the road.

Exactly!

Why are people acting like they’re so tired of the Braves? They literally have one title in the last 27 years and they went 18 consecutive years (2002-2019) without winning a single postseason round.

@@87Khein I don’t mind the Braves

@@87Khein you must be a kid,some are tired of seeing them since the 90s when we really hated them when glavine n Maddux got every call

@@87Khein fans being condescending.

But you won't like being ousted in 5.... 🚬😎

@@craigfazekas3923 that was a great game

I agree The format was weird and the Phillies, although a lower seed, had an easier path to the NLCS. Coming from a Phillies fan.

People get too caught up on familiarity and easier paths but bottom line is if you WIN you don't go home.....Welcome to the Playoffs

@Mr. Anderson I don't disagree but it's the plain truth.

@@praneelj9377 Idk man it was only like that cuz we won, what if the Cardinals beat us how different would it have looked?

@@1GOBIRDS1 that's why there should be reseeding. The bracket shouldn't be fixed. Idk why they changed it to making it fixed. In the playoffs, there is always at least one instance where a lower seed wins. Then the lower seed should play the higher seed.

Padres will have Musgrove Game 3, Clev/Manaea Game 4, and Darvish Game 5. Pads will lead 3-2 heading back to SD

@@jakemcdermott2053 I think Game 3 is massive, I think 4 goes Phillies 5 probably goes Padres whoever wins tomorrow is winning the series

Good matchup. If the Phillies win i wouldn’t be surprised and if the padres win i wouldn’t be surprised either. SD bull pen is superior to Phillies. Padres defense also superior to Phillies. Phillies bats are hotter and Harper is a smidge better than Machado. If Soto was slugging like he used to it might be a Difference maker. Cheers to a good series. 😅

This format of wildcard had me reading up more on the teams than usual. Minimum of 4 good starters and at least 8 times through the top of each order is a great thing.

The only reason they changed the format is for money, plain and simple. More teams playing means more games(which necessarily generates more money through ticket sales and TV broadcast fees), and more fans/interest around the country, at least for an extra few days, which leads to more money being made. I suppose I'm probably in the minority here, but I don't like the MLB becoming the NFL... what's next, seven teams from each league in the post-season, then eight, wait, then they'll be like the NBA and let in more than half the teams, most of whom don't deserve to be playing for a championship.

@@mydogskips2 Well perhaps the version of the MLB you describe is a bit extreme. I'm speaking for right now. Maybe it is for the money (what corporation does anything that is not money motivated) but it has been an exciting post season. The Padres run against the Mets and the Dodgers really showed us what an underdog team is capable of. Philly is currently giving Houston a run for their money when everyone thought they would get blown out... Those teams may not "deserve" to be there but it really has been a fun time for baseball.

Even when the post-season was limited to the World Series, there were still upsets of superlative, heavily favored teams. Just look at how the New York Giants, in what was their last "hurrah" in Gotham before they more or less snuck out of town to join the Dodgers relocating to California in '58 (the Giants, having control over the AAA Minneapolis Millers, with a new, expandable ballpark in Bloomington, almost went to the Twin Cities in 1956), swept what would be the greatest single-season Cleveland INDIANS team, which had finished at 111-43, a .721 win percentage. That had to absolutely frustrate the second-place New York Yankees, who themselves, at 103-51, won better than two out of three, an awesome season, but still eight games back of the tribe. Even the third-place ChiSox won 94 games, which still didn't put the Pale Hosers into the WS until 1959. However, a simple look at won-less records, though obviously it determines who finishes where, doesn't tell the entire picture. In those years, the "triumvirate" of the Braves, Dodgers, and Giants more or less dominated the NL, who each vied for the '54 NL pennant until the last few weeks when the Gothams pulled away. The Cardinals, Reds, and Phillies were each mediocre, finishing all a bit below .500, and then the Cubs and the Pirates vied for the cellar, the hapless Bucs "winning" that dubious prize. As for the Indians, along with the Yankees and the ChiSox, they feasted on the hapless remainder of the Junior Circuit, with the former St. Louis Browns, now relocated to Baltimore as the Orioles, and the decaying Philadelphia Athletics, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, who'd flee to Kansas City the following year, losing 100 or more games. Five of the eight AL teams didn't even win 70 games that year! It's obvious that the "greatness" of the Tribe in '54 came largely due to the general ineptitude of the majority of the AL, but that'd come to a screeching halt once they had to face a genuinely competitive team. Aside from those observations, in a fairly short series, anything CAN happen. This sort of upset would be repeated fifteen years later with the "Miracle" Mets upsetting the powerful and heavily favored Baltimore Orioles, but again, as 1969 was also an expansion year, the 'Birds, though certainly a great team, had their record boosted by feasting on poorly-assembled expansion teams, especially the hapless Seattle Pilots, who played but one season in the Emerald City before filing for bankruptcy and moving, at literally the last minute before the 1970 season was underway, to Milwaukee, where they've had 53 seasons of varied success as the Brewers. The Mets were simply HOT, especially their pitching, which befuddled the Baltimore bats of the Robinsons, Brooks and Frank, and slugger Boog Powell.

Winning a division versus getting third place in a division and still qualifying for playoffs are two different scenarios regardless of number of wins.

All of that's valid. And I hate los angels. But who gives a fuck about getting swept by the pirates int eh regular season during a 111 win regular season, that's the only needless pick you made.

@@brix1094fuckhandles as a pirates fan, cause they’re the pirates. The 100 loss for 2 consecutive seasons and hasn’t swept anyone in like 3 years

@@ethanearley8802 who cares about the regular season. Only thing that matters is the postseason

@@brix1094fuckhandles teams who don’t make the post season care about the regular season

@@brix1094fuckhandles don’t know why you feel the need to pick at that, you said it yourself they were just picks to make a joke. That’s all it was just leave it as that lmao

Hitting is about repetition and rhythm though. That’s the only disadvantage that comes with a bye.

Also, baseball is a game of hot and cold streaks. 100-win teams do not go the entire season without losing a series.

Let’s go Phillies!!!

You're so damn stupid its unbelievable

I would say ANY playoff format by it's nature is unfair, since it puts a huge emphasis on being hot at the end of the year and not just doing well throughout the entire year But I would also say the Most Fair way to decide a champion (most wins in a huge season with every team having the same schedule. Or just have a committee decide it directly) is also a REALLY BORING way to do it. It's breaking up the Integrity of the championship in order to do something that's really really entertaining but I think that's worth it

The Phillies have spent tons of money and so have the Padres.

@@87Khein I mean in comparison to the Yankees, Braves, Mets and Dodgers.

The Phillies and Padres have higher payrolls than the Braves...

@@87Khein I didn't know that. Besides the Braves, I think you still get what I'm trying to say.

@@87Khein yeah but the padres only started that spending in the last 3/4 years. thats a gamble by the owner and management to bring talent and try to win to get more fans and hopefully pay themselves back. if they spend all that money for 5 plus years and see no chance of winning, then whats the point of putting extra money towards your team

Shut upppp it doesn’t matter what team you’re a fan of no one cares it’s irrelevant

Agreed. But look what the NFL has done, let's hope it's NOT just a matter of time before the MLB follows suit and lets in seven teams from each league, then eventually eight like the NBA does. Personally, I could have lived with five teams, the two wildcards facing off to play division winners.

As a Pads fan, I think it motivates him for next year. Or at least it should. It also decreases the games he has to sit next year, which is certainly a positive.

How would the team he plays for winning be an "F you" to him? I swear people want to be edgy for no reason. If anything he'd be happy the team he's under arbitration with is competitive enough to do something like this without him.

They should have beaten the Phillies within the first three games then🤣

Win the games it’s that simple y’all were better then them statistically and still took an L

This comment makes no sense. The Dodgers led MLB in runs and runs allowed, joint-based BABIP allowed, and had the most wins but they weren't actually that good, right?

@@pigjubby1 Where in my comment states they didn't. My point was calling the Dodgers not good when they still won the season series 15-8 and where by far the dominant team in the season "just not good at all" is stupid. Kinda like ur comment refuting something I never claimed.

I don't think that people care about Wild Cards winning it all. I think they care about the huge difference in win totals. If a 94-win Wild Card team beats a 98-win division champion then so be it but it's third place teams with fewer than 90 wins getting to play against division winners with over 100 wins that bothers people.

Don't worry it'll be the Phillies LOL

I think gimmicks aside..the best way is..just to play the games. It actually works.

I'm a mets fan, and just happy dodgers and braves got the same fate lol

All the current rounds do is even the odds.

Nah I don't have a horse in the race but making the top two teams wait a week from the end of the season to play their first playoff game is absurd

We’re headed to where all teams are eventually gonna make the playoffs regardless of record. anything can happen in a five game series but in a regular season where you have to show day in and day out for 162 games but you still won’t get rewarded because you will have to play a wildcard team. The regular season means nothing now since the MLB started giving participation awards to these wildcard teams. I wish they would go back to two AL teams and two NL teams, and then the World Series.

@Hoodiewaffles…Maybe the World Series should be best of nine too , play till Christmas.

exactly in dodgers vs padres game 1 was their best pitcher vs our number 4/5 pitcher to start the series then having the padres best pitcher come in the next game on 3 days rest. that's a total advantage for the dodgers

It's like you said hitters aren't sharp when they rest too long so a 4/5 pitcher is gonna come in looking like a 1/2 pitcher so that advantage of a rested pitcher is gone because you lose your offense

Yeah but he said since 2012 when the wild card game started

I think its the way he stated "the only time in MLB history" that creates the confusion.