MLB '24 Postseason thread

I’m assuming Alex Cobb goes in Game 1 for the Guardians. There will be no early hook. They’ll need innings.

 

That was where I was starting from, was around 1920 when the NFL and NHL got rolling and there was more than one major pro sports league.

 

Look up the history. The NFL in the early '20s wasn't exactly rolling. It was basically a series of exhibition games featuring Red Grange and the Bears against all-comers teams of tough galoots from the industrial north. Because of Canada, the NHL was more, although hardly exactly, like what we know today as the Original Six.

 

OK, existing then. Point being, that's roughly the dawn of our modern sports set-up.

 

I do not mean to be pedantic, Batman, but the real start of the modern sports setup didn't begin until the end of WW2. NBA founded and the AAFC founded in 1946. Also the first huge explosion of sports attendance in every sport since the early '20s.

 

So you’re saying Vogt might let him go deep into the fourth?

 

Rooting against a Subway Series means rooting for the Dodgers, which is causing a major religious crisis here.

 

Nicely done by the reporter to track down this story:

Catch -- and pass -- of slam ball a baseball bonding moment for Guards fans

 

NYY v NYM > NYY v LAD

 

References a “sellout crowd of 34,105.” Guardians have announced as many as 37K for a regular-season game this year. Seems odd.

 

I think anything over about 33k is considered a sellout. In the regular season thousands of people use the Ballpark Pass to go to games, which gives them entry and standing room only to every game for a flat monthly fee. That really inflated attendance numbers this season.

 

Maybe moving the game up to early afternoon caused some to swallow their tickets because 1 PM was a hassle. Just spitballing.