The Goat Pen

Worst thing is we didn't have the roided up Barry Bonds. Why couldn't have we had the roided Bonds?

Yeah maybe he could have thrown out Sid from deep SS / short LF?????

al michaels was doing play by play for that team if i remember right along with the old left hander rounding 3rd and heading for home

wathed many a big red machine game on channel 4 indianapolis. only baseball team I really ever followed until KC the last 2 years

Al was here for a few years till Marty came on in 74

I went to a baseball game once...

Sorta obvious many years ago.

It was an A's game, circa 1994. Mark McGuire hit 2 home runs and jacked a 3rd to the wall...

Imagine that. Your first attended game was during the drug era.

I'm pretty sure I dropped acid in honor of the A's...

Im pretty sure you probably did too. The NFL shouldn't be the only group studying brains.

Jungle Rat wrote:Imagine that. Your first attended game was during the drug era.

The better drug era. They were using Amphetamines to improve performance for a long time

Or combining uppers with LSD, like Dock Ellis...

Go Cubbies!

sardis wrote:Go Cubbies!

Reds sweep the Dodgers, nearly sweep the Cardinals, and lose to the Cubs 9-1. Embarrassing.

"Suppose the Pirates, Reds and Cardinals finish in a three-way tie? Then we get this crazy schedule:

• The Pirates and Reds still finish the season against each other, Sept. 27-29.

• The next day, two of those three NL Central teams would hold a tiebreaker game. (At this point, that would most likely be a Reds-Cardinals game in St. Louis, but that could change.) The loser would still be a wild-card team. But the winner …

• Would go on to play the third team on Tuesday, Oct. 1, to decide the division. But since that was supposed to be the day of the NL wild-card game, the AL wild-card game would be moved to Tuesday night, while that NL Central tiebreaker game would be played that afternoon.

• The loser of that NL Central derby then would have to play the other NL wild-card team the next day (Wednesday, Oct. 2) -- again, almost certainly, in the afternoon. And the winner of the wild-card game would have to jet off to start the NLDS the next day (Thursday, Oct. 3) -- possibly as far away as Los Angeles.

• But there is still the potential for the winner of that game to play the NL Central champ, based on the yet-to-be-determined final seeding. So …

It's not out of the question that a team like the Reds could play the Pirates on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Cincinnati, face the Cardinals on Monday in St. Louis (tiebreaker), play the Pirates again on Tuesday in Cincinnati (tiebreaker), play the Cardinals on Wednesday somewhere or other (wild-card game), then visit the Pirates on Thursday and Friday in Pittsburgh."

we are now 3 games out

playing cleveland right now up 4-2 in the 6th

Why is sardis already conceding the Wild Card? He must not remember what a pennant chase is like.

Realistically, the Cards are going to win the division. They have an easy schedule the rest of the way and the two teams chasing them play each other 6 more times. It's a Sporty lock.

If season ended today...

Cards and Pirates would play a division tie-break game in Pittsburgh on Monday, Sept 30. (Pirates would host that game, based on 10-9 season series advantage.)

Winner of Cards vs Pirates would then host Reds in Wild Card game on Tuesday, October 1.

Winner would begin NLDS on Thursday, October 3.

I'd be ok with that. The Reds get a rest.

"Winner of Cards vs Pirates would then host Reds in Wild Card game on Tuesday, October 1."

Wouldn't that be the loser who would host the Reds?