Baseball

Who is following the playoffs?

Who do people think will win

Even though I am a Mets fan, I am going with the Yankees 

Dodgers. Their pitching is just too much to overcome in a short series.

I root for the Cubs and Reds.  I grew up 35 miles NW of Chicago, then moved to Cincinnati out out school in the early '80's.  I've been to about 150 Cubs home games and 200 Reds games.  Reds are gone already.  The Cubs are winning early.  I dont have a clue who will win.  The Dodgers have suddenly gotten healthy with a bunch of players back.  If I had to pick, I'd say the Dodgers.  Go Cubs Go!

Been a Yankee fan my whole life, so Go Yanks!!

My college roommates son is also a relief pitcher on the Yankees, after having been released by the Mets in late August. 

Probably the Dodgers, but I really don't follow baseball until the playoffs start

Edso, I hope the Yanks don't win, but I  understand  why you do.  Neat connection.  A couple of players that my boy played ball with had good MLB careers. 10 and 13 years.

Ah, the Yankees are the Evil Empire! At least to the fans in Boston, etc.

A Yankees-Dodgers series would spark the most interest, as it has before. One of my most vivid memories is of Reggie Jackson striking out to end the game and walking away furious and cussing his head off (the pitch was a high fastball) and then coming back and hitting three first-pitch home runs in the decisive game. Was that...1978?

I catch the occassional game here and there in the regular season and try to go to a few live games.    Chicago, Milwaukee, Cinci, and St Louis are all easy drives from Indianapolis.

The sport desperately needs a salary cap like other pro sports.    SHoei Ohtanie gets $700 million from the Dodgers?  Pittsburgh could never afford that.   Big market teams really squash out the small market teams.   You gotta root for those small market teams whenever they make the playoffs

BB needs a salary cap but should also maintain a minimum team salary.  There are too many teams that are coasting with no effort to put  winning team on the field.  If the owner is unable to maintain a minimum salary they have to sell the team.

I do. And it's fucking hopeless. The big market teams will always dominate, because they can buy up all the best players. Occasionally, some small-market team has five or six players who have career years and they win it all...and then all those players demand tripled salaries and wind up playing for the Yankees when their team can't pay them what they want.

When living in the Bay Area, I watched the Oakland A's disintegrate three times, each after tremendous seasons, because their secondary status to the Giants and overall poor attendance meant that everybody would go free agent as soon as they could.

It's all about the Benjamins. Hundred foot-high stacks of them