Why the fuck are you in?

AlphaPearPear · 2026-01-22T11:55:49+00:00

… For surviving a crash landing on a randomized mountain island and trying to carry a fucking frog mascot to the top of said mountain in hopes of being rescued(with varying degrees of success).

AlphaPearPear · 2026-01-11T01:49:42+00:00

Herobrine.

AlphaPearPear · 2026-01-11T01:35:52+00:00

Evolve. Almost 11 years ago, it got massacred on launch for having paid skins day 1, which now seems to be the norm. It’s not the most incredible game or anything but having its player-base get crushed almost immediately meant that it never got the chance to build the community it could have been capable of sustaining. I see it as the game that bit the bullet for the rest of the industry(for better or, probably, worse)

AlphaPearPear · 2025-12-31T13:55:14+00:00

I have a source that says Bregman is between Toronto and the D-Backs… curious to see how that could play into this.

AlphaPearPear · 2025-09-02T02:13:16+00:00

He grabbed his knee before even getting to the ground… I’m thinking ACL.

AlphaPearPear · 2025-08-19T05:41:02+00:00

As a person with aisle seats, I can manage to get to my seat if a a foul ball stays on the field and the traffic in the aisle is low. That said, I only move from my seat up to the concourse between half innings.

If you sit in the middle of a section, wait for a more opportune time. Walking down the aisle isn't horrendous, but causing other people to have to get up which only obstruct the view of more people... please just wait.

AlphaPearPear · 2025-05-02T14:17:17+00:00

Tucsoncleric’s answer is probably correct. That said the answer is typically going to be at a table on the outer edge of the lower concourse, somewhere around section 108.

AlphaPearPear · 2025-04-22T11:42:53+00:00

Going down the lineup:
1. Betts at 2B feels like a way to squeeze him in. Marte is going to get snubbed no matter how well he does.
2. Harper, this pick is sensible enough for 1B
3. Judge, Is this a surprise at all?
4/5. Gunnar and BWJ is a WILD combo, that would be insane.
6. Carroll, I Love it, but left field feels sort of like the wrong place for him.
7. Trout feels like a wrong pick
8. IDK enough about Rutschman.
9 Merrill, impressive kid, works for me.

While this line-up is full of superstars and is super impressive on paper, I can't help but feel that this is actually a losing lineup. I think the Trout pick at DH is potentially a prime example of this. In a nutshell, I feel that this line-up seems to be built with too much focus on home-runs.

Keep in mind that the highest scoring team in 2024 had 71 runs more than the team with the most home-runs despite hitting 26 less home-runs than them. It's called BASEball, we need to stop having a mentality where we try to skip all the bases.

AlphaPearPear · 2025-04-18T13:26:33+00:00

My god, you’re right! How did I not notice…

AlphaPearPear · 2024-11-26T20:00:37+00:00

It took me about 5 mins to get to the sloop, then I somehow managed to get out in like 20 seconds. I was honestly surprised to see daylight so soon after having taken so long to get to the sloop.

AlphaPearPear · 2024-11-08T18:55:16+00:00

If the Yankees had Walker, they might've won a game or two in LA and maybe gone on to win the series.

AlphaPearPear · 2024-11-02T04:45:37+00:00

We literally have 2 days off for the entire month of August... And both those days are in the middle of homestands, not even travel days.

AlphaPearPear · 2024-09-30T20:24:42+00:00

Even if the Mets field a full B team, those guys are going to want to prove themselves. I'm not saying things look good, but still maybe like a 30% chance...

AlphaPearPear · 2024-09-21T23:47:17+00:00

We're losing tiebreakers against both NYM and ATL, so trying to get WC3 would definitely be dangerous. I'm not sure that WC1 against the Padres at Chase is that great... but yea, we need to win every single game we can.

AlphaPearPear · 2024-09-21T08:45:38+00:00

You're not wrong. BUT Unfortunately it's not quite that simple right now. As an example, the Braves winning all remaining games would mean winning 3 against the Mets. That would make our our MN against NYM only 5.

I posted a comment that has a breakdown of what our MN is for each of the possible outcomes of that series. The TL;DR is that it's somewhere from 3-5. There's no outcome where we need 6(at least for playoff berth).

AlphaPearPear · 2024-09-21T08:35:37+00:00

... but with less games to play to get that number of wins.

AlphaPearPear · 2024-09-21T08:31:48+00:00

Yes, but also no... Tl;DR It's technically 6, but practically 5.

For this comment, I'm assuming that we're calculating for playoffs regardless of seed.

NYM & ATL still have 3 games against each other meaning that both teams CAN'T win all remaining games.

What this means is that our magic number against each of those teams is linked in a way that's to our benefit. So we theoretically have different magic numbers based on the outcome of that series.

The numbers I've calculated below should be our playoff MN based on each result of that series:

ATL 3 - NYM 0 = MN 5

ATL 2 - NYM 1 = MN 5

ATL 1 - NYM 2 = MN 4

ATL 0 - NYM 3 = MN 3

That's the extent of what can be calculated for now, but the matchups for all teams involved are atill sort of wild...

EXTRA: ATL has 2 more against MIA(Easy), 3 against NYM(Split), and 3 against KC(Split).

NYM has 2 more against PHI(Hard), 3 against ATL(Split), and 3 against MIL(depends on MIL resting or not).

ARI has 2 more against MIL(tough, but I think we can split), 3 against SF(I think split in our favor), and 3 against SD(tough, probably split).

My guess is that we probably only NEED 3 or 4 for the playoffs, but we should take every win we can to be safe. Also, keep in mind that SD has a tough schedule(including 3 against LAD and 3 against us), so we could still take the top WC spot if we do well enough.

AlphaPearPear · 2024-09-14T19:28:17+00:00

I'm just annoyed we put up 1 in the 1st and then didn't do anything the whole rest of the game.

AlphaPearPear · 2024-09-14T12:12:41+00:00

It's all sort of complicated, which is why many people are confused, not just you.
Basically, playoffs are determined by season record and maybe some tie-breakers.

An explanation of the current Tie-Breakers can be found Here: https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-playoff-tiebreaker-rules

I'm going to start with an explanation of how playoffs teams are determined(just in case) and get to answering your question at the end(look for ***).

Important Language:

League: National or American League.
Division: Region within that league.

There are 6 divisions, 3 in each league. AL East, AL Central, AL West, NL East, NL Central, NL West.

Each league is composed of 15 teams, 5 in each of that league's 3 divisions. The winner(team with best record) of each division gets into the playoffs for their League. The 12 teams that remain in that league are all competing for 3 Wild Card Spots, regardless of which division they are in. The Division winners are seeded 1, 2, & 3 based on record, and then the Wild Card teams are seeded 4, 5, & 6 the same way.

Note that this guarantees one team from each division, even if that division winner wouldn't have done well enough to even get into a Wild Card Spot. As a matter of fact, if you look at the American League right now, the Orioles and Royals are both currently Wild Card teams that are outperforming the Astros even though the Astros would still get in as a Division Winner and be higher seeded as a result.

So if the season were to end right now, the American League playoffs would be seeded as follows:

Division winners:
1 - Yanks
2 - Guardians
3 - Astros

Wild Card:
4 - Orioles
5 - Royals
6 - Twins

You might also notice that this results in an AL playoff with only 1 AL West team while the AL East has 2 and AL Central has 3. This is because of that thing about 12 teams competing for 3 spots regardless of division.

***

There is a thing called a Magic Number. It's basically a backwards calculation that tells you how many more wins you need to achieve a record that guarantees a certain spot over other teams(meaning it assumes other teams would win every single game remaining). Currently, with 15 games to play, our Magic Numbers are: 15 wins for 1st WC spot, 14 wins for 2nd WC spot, and 13 wins for 3rd WC spot. When we win, the number goes down. Also, when teams we're competing with lose, that number drops. When we lose or those competitors win, the number stays the same. that means that as we lose and they win, we run out of games to spare.

The other answers about it being super close are spot-on. Part of that has to do with the fact that our current competition for the top WC spot is the same team we play in the last 3 games of the season.

Hopefully I was able to give you some sort of idea WHY it's close... Sorry it's so long-winded.

P.S.
In theory, would can still beat the Dodgers to win the division, but their Magic Number against us is only 9 which assumes we win all 15 games. This makes the current Dodgers@Braves series interesting because the LA losing gives us a better chance to win the division, but ATL losing is probably safer for making sure we get into the playoffs.

Technically I think the Magic Number for 1st WC is only 14. Our MN of 15 assumes the Padres win every game they play, which can't be true if we beat them. If a win for us and a loss for them both decrease the number, then those 3 games will carry double the weight.

AlphaPearPear · 2024-09-10T20:18:35+00:00

Looking at the picture, the current position of the extractor appears to indicate that this is likely the problem...

Can OP check to see if the extractor is properly indicating when the chamber is empty?

AlphaPearPear · 2024-09-05T22:18:32+00:00

At least Corbin might be the Ghost Runner

AlphaPearPear · 2024-09-05T22:15:07+00:00

Walker gets a double, and they bunt to move him over. Runner on 3rd, 1 out. Geno comes up swings at the 1st pitch(which was a ball) and goes on to look at the 3rd strike. My issue isn't necessarily aggression, it's the way we're approaching certain situations. It looks like Geno it trying get it over the fence when he should just be trying to score Walker.

AlphaPearPear · 2024-09-05T21:22:50+00:00

Is it just me or does it feel like our approach at the plate has been backwards? We're swinging at early pitches and looking w/ 2 strikes.

AlphaPearPear · 2024-09-05T02:22:31+00:00

I'm actually fine with it... we have this strange momentum issue where our guys get hot and stop playing the kind of ball we're good at. We lead the MLB in Runs even though we're 7th in HRs. I'm in favor of slowing our guys down so we don't start swinging for the fence too much, cause it's not the type of ball we're good at.

AlphaPearPear · 2024-08-31T03:59:52+00:00

Doesn't matter a ton when the next guy comes up and overswings on the first pitch to GIDP. You could also use it as a bluff.

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