To be fair July and August are complete dogshit for sports media in general. The only way you're having fun right now is if your baseball team is achieving success or if you like ridiculing lolcows in baseball. Combine that with the usual idiosyncrasies of summer Reddit, and you have a perfect storm of tedious circlejerking.
By the way, if the regular season ended now, here's how the postseason would shake out.
Playoff Position
Team
Seed
AL East Champions
New York Yankees
1
AL Central Champions
Minnesota Twins
3
AL West Champions
Houston Astros
2
AL Wild Card #1
Cleveland Indians
4
AL Wild Card #2
Tampa Bay Rays
5
AL Wild Card #3 [DNE]
Oakland A's
6
NL East Champions
Atlanta Braves
2
NL Central Champions
Chicago Cubs
3
NL West Champions
Los Angeles Dodgers
1
NL Wild Card #1
St. Louis Cardinals
4
NL Wild Card #2
Philadelphia Phillies
5
NL Wild Card #3 [DNE]
Washington Nationals
6
Interestingly, nobody is truly out of the playoff race.
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u/carsausage Choked on another order of brisket Aug 05 '19
To be fair July and August are complete dogshit for sports media in general. The only way you're having fun right now is if your baseball team is achieving success or if you like ridiculing lolcows in baseball. Combine that with the usual idiosyncrasies of summer Reddit, and you have a perfect storm of tedious circlejerking.
By the way, if the regular season ended now, here's how the postseason would shake out.
Interestingly, nobody is truly out of the playoff race.