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I don't sock. Or at least not sos you don't all know about 5 posts in who it is.

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That is in part a lie. Also, I am not anon and don't sock anymore.

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Thanks for getting my back.

The shit Penske and I admit to in the open, why would we go anon?

Maybe he means the birthday wish guy? that's nfh, ss one of that ilk.

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de nada y dos.

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I'll type more slowly.

If the Red Sox win tomorrow, they will have an identical record to the Yankees, which would mean there was a tie.

Major League Baseball has these things called tie-breakers, in case of just such an eventuality between teams in the same division.

The first tie breaker is the "head-to-head" record.

After looking it up, counting tomorrow's game, the Yankees and Red Sox will have played each other 19 times.

With New York's win today, they have won 10 games against the Red Sox this season.

Even if the Red Sox win tomorrow, they will have no more than 9 wins against the Yankees this year.

So, even if we were to assume the Sox win tomorrow, the Yankees win the tie breaker with a record of 10-9 in head-to-head meetings, so they clinched the division today.

Got it now?

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Since I double-posted, I'll answer your additional question here.

ETA: What Cleveland does only makes a difference in who wins the Wild Card berth.

Besides the division winners, Baseball allows one other team (the remaining team with the best record, regardless of division) a playoff berth.

The Sox are playing now for the wild card.

Right now, the Sox' record is one game better than Cleveland's. If the Sox win tomorrow, they're in no matter what Cleveland does.

If they lose, and Cleveland wins, Boston and Cleveland have the same record, and will play a one game playoff (technically the first post-season game, I guess) to see who gets the right to go on as the fourth team in the playoffs.

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but that is a meaningless win, right? There will be a playoff, and even though it would be in NY, I think that was decided yesteray and from a coin flip. The "clinching "is meaningless- that was what confused good ole Paigow.

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Is there any provision for a win to count double? A super-duper win, sts. Then it could be 10-10, no?

eta:

[true story] When I was child, in my youth, my hood played a regular summer season of whiffle ball, in addition to all of the kids playing little league ball. At my whiffle ball field, ie my parent's backyard, in the middle of what would have been centerfield there was a faux-decorative well house (it covered the artesian well cover-this was the country). If you hit the whiffle ball and it landed in the well house on the fly (which was tough as the opening was about 2' x 2' and there was a roof over it) it was an automatic grandslam (regardless of runners on base). IN 5 or 6 seasons there were only 3 of these ever. We made a plaque. It was big tyme shite in our hood. [/true story]

Does MLB have anything like that going on?

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Coltrane is out on Rush Street, so I'll take his proxy. He would appreciate if you were specific when you say "sox." at least for the next week until the White Sox get knocked out.

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I know you're a Tigers fan, but please tell me you're joking.

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thelast time I folowed baseball there was no wild card. But there will be a playoff, won't there is the Sox win tomorrow?

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Only in Florida.

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Only if Cleveland wins too (for the wild card), otherwise no.

ETA: I assume, for Coltrane's benefit, that you mean the Red Sox.

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They used to not settle a season on a tiebreaker. I'm shocked. They play 162 games, why not play 1 more?

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I know, but it may have something to do with the fact that they played fewer games in a season and/or had fewer divisions. While I am certain MLB would looooove to have the additional revenue which comes with playing tie-breakers, I don't think anyone wants to be playing baseball into November.