Not to get you riled up, but Creed are back together and touring again.
I donāt remember a thing they did, but I know that they inspire rage in people whose tastes I identify with, and thatās enough to keep me away.
Iām with HH in that grunge - Nirvana, PJ, AIC, etc - never connected with me. That doesnāt mean itās bad music. I will say that I feel there was nothing sonically or lyrically groundbreaking with grunge. Kind of forgettable to me.
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Realmuto just put a charge into one. 3-0 Phillies
Please take that to the music thread.
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Fried is really fighting it.
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Los Lobos at Gruene Hall next Friday, Woodlands on Saturday
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That would be awesome. I got to hang out and eat pizza with them back in the 80s. Super chill guys.
Iām pretty sure I knew that at some point but buried it somewhere deep inside my brain. Not that it impacts me in any way. Itās been years since I have even kept up with music in even the most casual of ways. Especially once I started working from home a couple years ago, but even before that with podcasts, I hardly even listen to music anymore, and when I do, itās shit from 10-20 years ago
Gonna be a lot more calls to change the postseason format.
Of course, if we did that every time the Braves were a postseason disappointment , weād be out of postseason formats.
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Iāve been on a Los Lobos and especially Los Super Seven kick recently and Iām really not sure why.
Whatās happening to the Braves is really jarring. It just doesnāt seem like it should be possible given their regular season dominance, but there it is.
1998 sez, āhold my drinkā.
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ā97 or ā98?
No matter the format, baseballās postseason will always be random. The sport just lends itself to randomness between teams in a way that no other sport can compete with. A dominant baseball team is just not that dominant compared to other sports.
Witty comment fail.
One of my 2 or 5 favorite live bands
Iāve heard more than one person I trust say, ābuild a team to get you to the postseason then itās a crapshoot from thereā.
I think this was especially the case when there was just LCD and WS. Most teams around or above .500 can go on a 8 wins in 14 games run, even against the best teams. 11 wins in 18 games is incrementally harder. The current 13 wins in 20 games is incrementally harder still. Especially at the end of a long season when teams are worn down. A .650 winning percentage over 20 games against tough competition starts to weed out the weak teams pretty effectively, Iād guess.
I donāt know if itās a crapshoot, but itās definitely a different dynamic. The Astros won the World Series last year because they were soundly better than very other team they played in the Postseason. But you get into short series, 3-man rotations, days off, etc, and itās surely subject to some randomness and smaller sample size effects that get evened out during the season.
Itās gonna take time for the league to figure out to manage the extra time off. This is only year 2 of the new format and despite the Dodgers and Braves shitting themselves last year, the champ was still a 106 win team.
A team cannot fluke their way into the postseason, barring the occasional 83 win team, that still happened in the old system, 162 games almost assures that. But you can fluke your way to a title once youāre in, just ask the Marlins in 97/03, the Cardinals in 11, ect, those are the first two that come to mind. I still think itās a feature, not a bug. I donāt want to be able to accurately predict every series because āteam A is better than team Bā