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MLB

ALDS Decider: Tigers at Yankees

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Doug Fister vs. Ivan Nova. If that's not a matchup to let your season ride on, what is?!

Captain Cheeseburger, apparently, may be available. Verlander apparently is not. This might be step one for the amazing, world-beating Yankee comeback that allows Girardi to change his uniform number again.

I know this is a bit early, but I have a feeling I'm going to forget otherwise, so here you go.

MLB

NLDS Games 4

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Uphill battles for the Cardinals and Diamondbacks tonight.

Phillies at Cardinals
Roy Oswalt vs. Edwin Jackson

Brewers at Diamondbacks
Randy Wolf vs. Joe Saunders

Fun and by fun we mean useless Fact: ERAs for the four starters tonight are 3.69, 3.79, 3.69 and 3.69.

Fun Fact II: Phillies and Brewers wins here would produce a rematch of the 1982 World Series. How many guys from those teams are still on those teams? I'm thinking less than ten.

MLB

Division Series – Games three and four

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Three series could end today. Or, maybe none will.

Rangers at Rays
Harrison vs. Hellickson

Phillies at Cardinals
Hamels vs. Garcia

Yankees at Tigers
Burnett vs. Porcello

Brewers at Diamondbacks
Marcum vs. Collmenter

I'll be at the late game. I'm looking forward to being in a full house for the first time since the 2006 ALDS.

MLB

Oct. 2 LDS, Games 2

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ALDS, Detroit at New York (Yankees lead 1-0), 2:07 p.m. CDT, TNT
Max Scherzer vs. Freddy Garcia

NLDS, Arizona at Milwaukee (Brewers lead 1-0), 4:07 p.m. CDT, TBS
Daniel Hudson vs. Zack Greinke

NLDS, St. Louis at Philadelphia (Phillies lead 1-0), 7:37 p.m. CDT, TBS
Chris Carpenter vs. Cliff Lee

The home teams have it in these series as all home teams won Game 1. I like these situations since any road team that wins Game 2 would be going home with a split and all the momentum.

The best matchup of the day will be the late game, which features to former Cy Young Award winners still in peak form. Of course, for the Phillies, this is their No.2 starter with a couple more ace pitchers in the wings, so if the Cardinals do pull this one out, they still have a long row to hoe.

MLB, WGOM

2011 MLB Playoff Brackets

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i was daydreaming and had a fun idea: MLB playoff brackets, anyone?

how about this: predict the winner of each series, and win the points. double points if you correctly guess the amount of wins for both winning and losing team.

ALDS/NLDS 1 pt. (best of 5)
ALCS/NLCS 3 pts.
world series 5 pts.

ALDS
DET v. NYY (1)
TB v. TEX (2)

NLDS
STL v. PHI (1)
ARI v. MIL (2)

whoever has the most points wins. pretty simple, huh?

if anyone has any suggestions to tweek the rules, let me know. otherwise, post your guesses below. i'll compile them on a spreadsheet and make it available to everyone.

copy and paste the below part:

ALDS(1):
ALDS(2):
NLDS(1):
NLDS(2):
ALCS:
NLCS:
World Series:

DEADLINE: friday, 30 september 2011 3:00PM CT

2011 Twins Game Logs, Minnesota Twins, MLB

Game 159: Twins at Indians

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Final road game on this long, weary journey. There's been injuries, disease and a bunch of headaches. Have we run out of Tylenol yet?

My California math says its Liam Hendriks' turn to pitch, but that's only if he didn't get moved up to pitch in the doubleheader. The Twins want to win this one to try to avoid 100 losses, but really, why have we gone through this if not to see history? If they go 63-99, it would just be a miserable season. At least if they lose 100, we could say we saw a historically bad team. This end of the season run has been historically bad, that's for sure.

At least the offense has picked up at the end. Seemed to happen about the time Chris Parmelee arrived. GO TWINS!!!