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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Tue Sep 20, 2016, 08:51 PM Sep 2016

Are the Giants just in straightout, long-term decline?

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It will be a miracle if they even get the second wild-card slot now.

How did they manage not to improve the bullpen at all after 2015?

And how can a team stay in a slump the entire second half of a season?

Just don't get it. You'd have thought the ship would have righted at some point in August or September.

Still rooting 'em on...but it's already beginning to look like we'll have to wait for next year.

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Are the Giants just in straightout, long-term decline? (Original Post) Ken Burch Sep 2016 OP

That NL Wild Card contest just became a horse race Brother Buzz Sep 2016 #1

Totes agree. Ken Burch Sep 2016 #2

They just have to win more games than St Louis and New York Brother Buzz Sep 2016 #3

All three teams lost tonight...running neck and neck in a dead heat at .526 Brother Buzz Sep 2016 #4

Good God...could we end up with a one-game playoff... Ken Burch Sep 2016 #5

There would be three games total to determine the Wild Card winner.... Brother Buzz Sep 2016 #6

Brother Buzz

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1. That NL Wild Card contest just became a horse race

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Wed Sep 21, 2016, 02:12 AM

Sep 2016

The Giants and St Louis won, and the Mets lost. All three teams now in a three-way tie at .530, and vying for the two Wild Card slots with eleven games to go! The time for my Giants get on a hot streak is NOW!

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

2. Totes agree.

Reply to Brother Buzz (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 21, 2016, 03:43 AM

Sep 2016

They pretty much need to win every game fro here on in.

Brother Buzz

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3. They just have to win more games than St Louis and New York

Reply to Ken Burch (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 21, 2016, 05:15 PM

Sep 2016

Then, of course, they HAVE to win the single Wild Card playoff game. And once they are in the playoffs, they just have to win more ballgames then their opponent. Easy peasy.

Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)

4. All three teams lost tonight...running neck and neck in a dead heat at .526

Reply to Ken Burch (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 22, 2016, 02:07 AM

Sep 2016

Ten games left to play.

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

5. Good God...could we end up with a one-game playoff...

Reply to Brother Buzz (Reply #4)

Thu Sep 22, 2016, 12:51 PM

Sep 2016

...to see who gets into a one-game playoff?

Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)

6. There would be three games total to determine the Wild Card winner....

Reply to Ken Burch (Reply #5)

Thu Sep 22, 2016, 01:44 PM

Sep 2016

with a shit load of travel on a very, very, tight schedule

The teams would be seeded by they season record against each other:

The Mets went 4-3 against the Giants.
The Cardinals went 4-3 against the Giants.
The Mets went 3-3 against the Cardinals

Game 1: Club A hosts Club B. Winner is the first wild card.
Game 2: Club C hosts Loser of Game 1. Winner is the second wild card.
Game 3: First Wild Card hosts Second Wild Card. Winner advances to NLDS.

All this in three days!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2016/09/21/what-happens-if-the-mets-giants-and-cardinals-tie-for-two-wild-card-spots/

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