As a Dodgers fan, I respectfully disagree. F italkstudios for being accurate! I'm in pain right now and I can't cope! I know we technically aren't out of it yet and I really hope that my words here age poorly, but damn, I did not see this finish coming at all :(
iTalk..!? I saw the video you made about the Braves and what you would do if they're eliminated by the Phillies again! With that being said. Since you made this video. The topic of every team in the playoffs this year. Are you still planning to bombard on the Braves failures this post season despite the historical regular season??? Knowing baseballs weirdness as you said in this video. Do you still feel it's justifiable to crush the Braves??
It’s baseball, no matter how many machines, formulas, or clocks you throw at it that pitch still has to be thrown at someone else. It’s unpredictable, that’s why I love it.
Unpredictable? The Astros keep winning, that seems predictable. I predicted all the winners so far from wild card rounds. If you really pay attention to the games and don't fooled by the regular season record, you can predict or at least odds favor you. For example, people predict Oreoles and Dodgers because of the record and firepower, but ignore that Oreoles don't have experience and Dodgers have no pitching. Phillies eliminated Braves last year and they are better this year so they really should be favor to win IMHO.
@@rdman86holy hell not another one of these bozos. The Astros show no signs of fatigue or “momentum loss”. The Braves and higher seeded teams just simply have NO HEART.
That four-homerun inning by the DBACKS was absolutely brutal. Demoralizing. Especially because Lance Lynn threw the pitch, Moreno hit a foul-ball out of the park, it was overturned, and the next pitch Moreno went yard. Sick.
Fantasy baseball has been a fun way to make the regular season more enjoyable. Spent most nights watching a game. Otherwise I'm with you, even as a lifelong fan, I understand folks who find it boring.
I’ve always been a believer in pitching wins in the postseason. Braves for example, proved that to me in 2021 and last year and this year so far. Last year and this year, pitching staff has been hurt and run down. No Anderson, Morton, Wright. Offense is great and Braves had the best this year but you have to pitch.
I agree I was hoping we made a move for a rotation pitcher, Morton getting hurt late sucks and Kyle been shutdown for the rest for the year. I still believe the Braves pull this off and win the series
Agreed, playoff experience is everything. It doesn’t matter how good a team is, if they don’t have enough playoff experience, the chances are they won’t win their first ever series.
The Dbacks are one of those young teams with no playoff experience at all. Brewers and Dodgers were the experienced playoff teams and still got swept by a young team with no playoff experience. Experience isnt everything. O's just couldn't get it done
The NHL is best at upsets. Most recently, Panthers coming back from 3-1 down against the the bruins who had 135 points and won 65 games earlier this year.
I'm starting to believe building a balanced 100 win team is not the best strategy. You may be better off building the first 2/5ths of your rotation? This is two years of insanity in the playoffs.
It's that whole week off for the Divison winners. They haven't had a whole week off the entire year. Now they get one right before the biggest series of the year
Been bingeing your character histories for a week now and I love the Cubs references! Can’t wait for you to make an episode about the MLB boogeyman: my Astros
I was so upset about the rays totally bombing it. I work in sports broadcasting and was working both of their games against the rangers. If they would’ve kept winning, I would’ve worked more- which I desperately need right now 😓 I had such high hopes for them.
This is the most Tampa Bay Rays thing ever!! Even when you do care, you don’t really care!!! In Philly, we live and die with our teams!!! If my job doesn’t give me off for the parade, they will never see me again!! But they also know that in the era of social media, that type of thing could ruin their business around here!! We don’t play around when it comes to the Phils(or the Birds)!!
@@joshmason1460 yeah cuz sports pay your bills lol not responsible at all plus the reason the rays don’t fill up the stadium is due to Tampa being a retirment town
The only division winner to actually show up in the playoffs (so far) - the Astros who were just recently getting destroyed by the bottom-feeding A's and Royals. Make it make sense.
I do have one counter to one of your points. You brought up the attendance at the Rays in the postseason and yes while it is an extremely low number, i think the blame should go more on MLB itself because who in their right mind decides to schedule a playoff game at 3:00 on Wednesday?
Those top seeds really struggled with the week off; it’s tough to get your hitters back to timing after that. Also, the seeding format makes no sense for MLB. Either reseed after each round or don’t give the wc teams so many days off
Great content! It’s been crazy to see this post season unfold! I feel bad for the Os, but it’s great too to see the dbacks, rangers, and twins get some spotlight
Great video! Thx for filling me in on everything that happened. I must admit I kinda tuned out after my team went into the witness protection program in Sept but your great work brought me back up to speed. Blessings!
Just makes the Astros run more impressive. Calling the Braves a Dynasty after 1 ring is silly. It also shows there is not a huge difference between a 90 win team and 100 win team. Although if the Astros win again we might be stuck with Dusty for another year
The biggest problem some people are having are that the favorite " more popular " teams did not win. the excuse about the 5 day delay, is not a good example, when there is a team that has had that delay for many years and still wins. and that team is not the popular one.
Great stuff man! One of if not my favorite baseball channel. Well presented, informative, topical. You got your ESPN shows, MLB shows but I like the YT creators. No big budget studio, graphics and names. You and Fuzzy and a few others - it's like your listening to a neighborhood friend. Keep going, bro!
Right now only teams with a sixth best or worse record make up the League Championship & World Series. How many times has that happened in the history of MLB? If you know the answer then you know this format is the exact opposite of what the MLB postseason was designed to be.
Being consistent in regular season is good but that also means the opponents have 162 games to study how to beat them, while teams that didn't perform so well are a bit more unpredictable.
The thing is, any team can be beat any team. The A's have won series against both the Braves and the Astros, the Royals have also won 5 out 6 games against the Astros in last month. Playoff predictions are just guesses at this point tbh. It almost makes me think playoff baseball doesn't matter because of the small sample size compared to the regular season.
If the A’s or Royals couldn’t win against these teams there would be zero point of having them in the league, they’re still vital even at the bottom of the Barrel
The only one that was very predictable is the Astros beating up on Gray. I’m sorry he’s a good pitcher, but it’s the Houston Astros. It was very predictable that they would score many times on him. He has basically no playoff experience except for the year he played for the Yankees. And he went up against a team that has been to the ALCS seven straight years. The guy had no chance.
To defend TB fans for not showing up to a playoff game. MLB needs to do something about their scheduling of postseason games. How do you schedule a game at 3 pm on a Tuesday? People work and not everyone will take time off work to watch a Wild Card Round game. That’s what baseball fans are missing. Baseball content creators are failing to mention anything about that as well.
Just by looking at who qualified for the postseason before it even started you knew we were in for the most boring postseason in our lifetime and probably in mlb history… and it has delivered exactly that.
Goes to show. This new playoff scheme is not working. After 162 games. It's pretty clear who belongs in and who should be out. You play that many games for a reason. Also, having rest in baseball is not necessarily a good thing.
I point to the best of three game wildcard process. hard for batters to not be impacted by 7-8 pause. Baltimore LA and now Atlanta basically frozen bats by teams that kept playing
(Disclosure: huge O’s fan here) I don’t want to sound like I’m making excuses. You need to win in the postseason no matter how good you are in the regular. That’s life. However, I have seen some good arguments lately against the 5-day-off rest period the division winners get. Baseball players cool off way faster than other sports players because they’re so used to playing constantly. At the end of the day though, they are professionals and they need to put up or get out. I understand the counter-argument too. The only thing that I can see being a problem after this new rule change as of 2 years ago is that the incentive structure will change. What’s the point of winning the division in the regular if your club gets a massive 5-day cool-off period? I could see a future where a division leader starts to intentionally blow games at the tail end of the regular season so that they don’t win the division, but they still get a WC berth. That way (strategically) they can continue to play ball with the high-pressure atmosphere of the postseason (not the same environment as holding high-level practices during the 5-day bye). And that’s not a good precedent for the sport or for the loyal fans who’ve watched their teams for 6 months and 162 games. Take this year so far as an example: It’s one thing if one top-seed team doesn’t make it to the LCS, but the fact that almost all the top-seed teams have not only lost their LDS, but have gotten swept? Something else is going on there: 5-day bye is making these hot regular-season teams polar-ice cold. I just don’t want MLB to become a “race for the WC but not the division” sport. I guess we’ll see how this plays out over the coming years when we get a larger sample size.
The regular season is just a test of how good a team can be over a long stretch. October where teams have to be great for each game and those don't always line up.
Watching Baseball since 1965, this is not baseball, DH, MLB Playoffs favor Wild Cards (Really). 100+ Win teams eliminated. 88 win teams get World Series. Why have a regular season? Why not all series 7 games? Owners want to sell more tickets and penalize the best teams in Baseball.
Postseason is more about being hot at the right team. Any team can have a hot stretch where they seem to be great every game. Any team can have a cold stretch. And either of those can happen at any time. Playoffs - especially expanded playoffs are mostly about luck.
Bad teams don't make playoffs. to say anyone not the best = bad is the dumbest argument. However I agree the wild cards are too heavily favored so far in this format.@@pm5206
Since the new format began, how many times have the two best regular season teams met in the World Series? My guess is very rarely, if at all. The plan for postseason success is get in and get hot at the right time. I seriously doubt that the New York Yankees would have 27 World Championships if they had been playing under the current format from day 1.
The problem is since this Wild Card system was put in place the 100+ win teams get knocked out by less wins teams before the World Series begins. The 100 win teams go into the start of the playoffs with pressure on them and players tired. The Wild Card teams have nothing to lose and have no pressure because they were not all that great during regular season. But MLB added Wild Card teams just to get tv, attendance & merchandise for those sub-par teams.
The rangers had 5 all stars all miss at least a month due to injury, eovaldi came back from injury and was 5mph lower velocity until his last start of the regular season and degrom and scherzer all missed significant time too, and still won 90 games. Niw, with the exception of degrom, all are back and healthy. Dont be fooled, this is the best team in the the AL.
you are totally wrong. A 100+ win team should breeze past an 89 win team. The 100+ win team gets to rest and play at home to start the series. Too bad if they aren’t ready for that. All the teams that win the Bye need to see what the Astros are doing and copy that
@@EthanDephouse It takes a lot of work to win 100 games like in your star players playing almost every game. Feb. to start of Oct. to win 100 games and now you have two rounds of playoffs to play a lesser team that has no pressure. Sure MLB makes money off these Wild Card teams in the playoffs but try explaining to fans of the best teams that won over 100 games that a lousy under 90 win team knocked you out.
The color announcer in the Astros-Twins game said that if the team that's down by 2 runs "doesn't score runs" "they won't win." I'm pouring through the rulebook to determine whether or not that's true.
I know anything can happen but if you don’t do something for a week you are going to be rusty. It’s longer than the all star break. It might be too early to tell but it seems this format strongly favors wild card teams. They going in with monument while the 1st place teams go in rusty. It’s obvious why the underdogs are winning because they are playing against teams that haven’t played in a week
The higher seed teams simply have no heart. MLB season isn’t a sprint it’s a marathon. 100+ wins means nothing when come playoff time all your pitchers and hitters are worn out from trying for 100.
It's because the teams with first round byes are at a disadvantage. Baseball is the most momentum driven sport and not playing for a week kills all of it. But MLB will never admit it because more teams in the playoffs means more TV $
In 2021, a 106W-56L wild card team upset their division winning rival in the National League Divisional Series to advance to the National League Championship Series. In the nineties, the wild card team could not play their own division winning rival until the league championship series.
Absolute truth. Crazy crazy crazy. Next spring when I hear the baseball pundits declare all their predictions I will just laugh out loud and watch another iTalk Studios video.
I don't keep up with Arizona but have a good idea of them vs. LA. I was shocked when I saw AZ swept LA and 2-0 as visitors. I used to here that ol' saying that it's totally different in the playoffs. This year rings true...Texas swept Orioles? Wow. Go Astros!
@cody0010 you're not gonna find them unless you build a time machine and go back 6 years. The astros are legit winning and have been for a long time. the 2017 scandal is irrelevant the Astros proved that by years of playoff dominance.
@@christianchampagne2281 It will always be relevant as long as there are still players there from 2017. I know they aren't doing anything now but that has really tainted that franchise and this whole run they have been on will be tainted as well.
@cody0010 it's not tainted. You guys just desperately want it to be and cling on to 2017 cause it's the only coping mechanism you have. Guarantee if you were on the 2017 astros team you wouldn't be able to do anything to stop what was going on with the sign stealing and you would be labeled as a cheater whether you participated directly or not. The whole not letting it go and acting as if you're above them is asinine, cheating has always been a big problem in the mlb it's only recently that they've actually been cracking down on it. Also, in 2017, Houston was damn near destroyed by Hurricane Harvey. Don't you think that any player on the fence about cheating would be swayed a little bit by that? Think about it they get to tip the balance in their favor and bring a championship home to a city that's never won a world series and was just devastated.
I think if you beat a team where in matters in the playoffs you have earned the right to say your the better team. This is the real test of the best, there are no throw away games, there are no “easy teams” to pad your stats against. Every game matters unlike the regular season. And every team is playing from first pitch to last pitch. Long story short I don’t like this calling the losers better teams, if they were better teams they would have won. The winners earned their wins they were the better team at this moment.
Unpredictable? Are you kidding? What is predictable is that a baseball team loses after spending nearly a week not playing real games, to a team which has kept sharp by playing a wild card series. In other sports a bit of rest is welcome. For example, a hockey team can use a break to let minor injuries heal.
I think anyone who watches baseball could’ve predicted Baltimore losing. They have absolutely no experience, and in baseball the game can easily change with a swing of the bat. You need experience in the playoffs to understand how to deal with that kind of pressure, you don’t get that in the regular season. In 2 years they def have a chance at the World Series.
It is insanity to see wildcard teams make to the Championship series. You know MLB is loving this and it shows that wildcard teams have a chance now to do something. I mean look at last year's NLCS, two wildcard teams in the Phillies and Padres. Anything can happen in sports. Damn we even had 4 home runs in a post season inning which NEVER happened before. Again anything can happen.
If anything can happen, why not just let them all in then? This is all becoming so pointless. Feels like the NFL, which is gross. There was a time when the only playoff was a 7 game series between the two division WINNERS to see who gets to play in the World Series. That was when baseball was fun. This contrived drama is tedious and feels like it's meant to appeal to people who don't actually like baseball as much as they just want fake spectacle.
MLB in no way likes anything that has happened. An all Texas ALCS with the possibility of Astros winning WS again. Their darling teams not even making/showing up for the playoffs. And several teams that have zero national fan base in the mix. They are literally scrambling to make sure this wont happen again.
the only thing that has made no sense to me so far was the orioles being fully non competitive. Probably would have predicted an O's vs Braves, or O's vs Phillies WS
From a neutral standpoint, am I the only one that thinks it’s been a boring postseason? No winner take all games. 1 game out of 20 games won in the last at bat (Philadelphia Atlanta game 2, the only interesting game to me). 13 games the teams that scored first won. No back and forth, the lead never changed more than once in all 20 games. All 8 series were won by the team that won game 1. No winning team ever trailed their series. Here’s hoping the LCS and WS are better.
No, according to the actual facts, your team choked. Looking at the facts, there is a team that constantly has had the bye, and still steps up. year after year.
But in all seriousness can we get another Betts video, think he is good for your goals. You’ve got the 100k, now we need to turn you into the Pat Mcafee of the MLB.
Honestly was rooting for the O’s but it is quite funny seeing the ALBeast put 3 teams in the postseason and not a single one of them got one win in the playoffs (also a Sox fan)
Just throw out the regular season and do a tournament at the end with all teams being involved. Make the regular season just a bit more irrelevant than it is now. This is why I gave up following baseball, it’s pointless, the regular season record gains a team no advantage.
The randomness factor is larger in baseball than other sports, that’s why you need such a large sample size long season (yet for some reason the DS is only a 5 game series). Also it’s not natural for these teams with a first round bye to have 5 days off between games.
The playoffs this year makes no sense because of the increase in interleague play. Teams had lopsided records because they got to play shitty teams in the other league a lot more than in previous seasons, that made a lot of teams look better than they really were.
I remember the last regular season game between Phillies and Braves I commented on FB saying PS series is the only one that matters and I got crucifix by fans lmao Well so far I’m right
Almost the same thing that happened last year, at least in the NL. The Braves, Mets and Dodgers all got bounced early last year after winning 100+ games. 🤦♂️
all im hearing is "astros take care of business" while everyone else cries "its not fair" from all these playoff format cries and 162 game season.... 2 years in a row Astros prove the playoff format allegations wrong
Nonsense. One team is an anomaly. The format is awful. No team with 84 wins deserves to be in LCS. Let alone playoffs entirely. What’s next? 82? Should the goal is to purposely lose games in regular season and win enough to somehow be champions?
Another w from italkstudios. Lets get to 200k!
I love italk thumbnails 😂
As a Dodgers fan, I respectfully disagree. F italkstudios for being accurate! I'm in pain right now and I can't cope! I know we technically aren't out of it yet and I really hope that my words here age poorly, but damn, I did not see this finish coming at all :(
@@gustafsoneMe too with the Braves
@@gustafsone dude its over lance lynn is pitching tonight
iTalk..!? I saw the video you made about the Braves and what you would do if they're eliminated by the Phillies again! With that being said. Since you made this video. The topic of every team in the playoffs this year.
Are you still planning to bombard on the Braves failures this post season despite the historical regular season???
Knowing baseballs weirdness as you said in this video. Do you still feel it's justifiable to crush the Braves??
It’s baseball, no matter how many machines, formulas, or clocks you throw at it that pitch still has to be thrown at someone else.
It’s unpredictable, that’s why I love it.
Unpredictable? The Astros keep winning, that seems predictable. I predicted all the winners so far from wild card rounds. If you really pay attention to the games and don't fooled by the regular season record, you can predict or at least odds favor you. For example, people predict Oreoles and Dodgers because of the record and firepower, but ignore that Oreoles don't have experience and Dodgers have no pitching. Phillies eliminated Braves last year and they are better this year so they really should be favor to win IMHO.
@@keenufan well well well.
Baseball is always unpredictable, but this post season has been wild, crazy how all the dogs are winning for the most part
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Momentum and the long rest cools the best teams off. They need to shorten that time off by 2 days
This entire season has been wild
@@rdman86holy hell not another one of these bozos. The Astros show no signs of fatigue or “momentum loss”. The Braves and higher seeded teams just simply have NO HEART.
Hockey is the most unpredictable
That four-homerun inning by the DBACKS was absolutely brutal. Demoralizing. Especially because Lance Lynn threw the pitch, Moreno hit a foul-ball out of the park, it was overturned, and the next pitch Moreno went yard. Sick.
what about the 6 run inning the phillies put up???
Pardon my French but, Fkn A!
People say baseball is boring. And I agree with them for the regular season. But it is the opposite of boring in the postseason
Fantasy baseball has been a fun way to make the regular season more enjoyable. Spent most nights watching a game. Otherwise I'm with you, even as a lifelong fan, I understand folks who find it boring.
Found it boring my whole life and this year I been tuned into these playoffs , became one of my favorite sports to watch
@@Rayohh559Playoff baseball really is different. Every pitch matters so much, adds a lot of tension and drama.
Regular season is more interesting. Postseason is boring and overrated.
@@pm5206just trying to be different
4 hours later, Houston is being Houston and going to the ALCS for the 7th time
As a dodgers fan, i dont know what you are talking about. This is the annual Dodger choke
Here I thought all of you were dumb and violent
Players can’t take 5 days off like this. Our lineups are completely out of sync
@@chopon1142 the Astros took 5 days off last season and they win the WS lol
❤ dodger choke ❤
We're still working off the penance for whoever sold their soul for 1988.
I’ve always been a believer in pitching wins in the postseason. Braves for example, proved that to me in 2021 and last year and this year so far. Last year and this year, pitching staff has been hurt and run down. No Anderson, Morton, Wright. Offense is great and Braves had the best this year but you have to pitch.
Yep that’s why the Dodgers and Braves are struggling
@@jeffgo5742 Dograts not Dodgers. LA stinks and so does that minor league of a team (at least in postseason play)
I agree I was hoping we made a move for a rotation pitcher, Morton getting hurt late sucks and Kyle been shutdown for the rest for the year. I still believe the Braves pull this off and win the series
@@WeallATL Kyle is out for all of 2024 so they better go shopping for an arm(or 2) in the offseason.
Exactly, the Twins and Jays both had the BEST starting pitching in the AL, and look at them now...................................wait.
The orioles loosing made 100% sense they are young and the rangers were way more ready and just overall better
Agreed, playoff experience is everything. It doesn’t matter how good a team is, if they don’t have enough playoff experience, the chances are they won’t win their first ever series.
The Dbacks are one of those young teams with no playoff experience at all. Brewers and Dodgers were the experienced playoff teams and still got swept by a young team with no playoff experience. Experience isnt everything. O's just couldn't get it done
@TheEnderTaz25 it's all about execution, not experience.
@normanavalos3730 The dbacks have a lot more guys on their team that have been in the playoffs compared to the orioles... You tried though so here 🍪
@@blickedxb how many more?
Astros are going to their 7th ALCS, that's about the only normality this year! 😂
I think it's cool that playoff upsets are more common in baseball. In the NFL it feels like the higher seeded team pretty much always wins.
NBA is even worse in that regard
@@trancebruh3231 the last season Miami a low seed (9th or 10th) gone to the finals, but that is very rare, the knicks in the 1999-2000 did it too.
The NHL is best at upsets. Most recently, Panthers coming back from 3-1 down against the the bruins who had 135 points and won 65 games earlier this year.
Thats because the higher seeded teams are actually better than the lower seeded teams.
@@trancebruh3231The NBA is a very top heavy league
The only consistent playoff team in recent years are the astros. Aside from them, it's been a total crapshoot.
Dodgers are consistent at choking
I'm starting to believe building a balanced 100 win team is not the best strategy. You may be better off building the first 2/5ths of your rotation?
This is two years of insanity in the playoffs.
YOOO CZWORLD, the crossover i didnt see coming, this post season IS crazy lol.
Agreed, regular season is now watered down. Week layoffs are not a reward for a sport played 6 out of 7 days for 162 games for top seeds.
According to the GM of the Seattle Mariners, building a team that wins 54% is. But they are not in the post season.
It's that whole week off for the Divison winners. They haven't had a whole week off the entire year. Now they get one right before the biggest series of the year
Been bingeing your character histories for a week now and I love the Cubs references! Can’t wait for you to make an episode about the MLB boogeyman: my Astros
I am flabbergasted, befuddled, bewildered, bamboozled and wollied
I was so upset about the rays totally bombing it. I work in sports broadcasting and was working both of their games against the rangers. If they would’ve kept winning, I would’ve worked more- which I desperately need right now 😓 I had such high hopes for them.
As a rangers fan, sorry :(
I don’t think the Rays choked. I think they just ran into a buzzsaw at full speed.
If Shane and Wander were available we would’ve won that series
This is the most Tampa Bay Rays thing ever!! Even when you do care, you don’t really care!!!
In Philly, we live and die with our teams!!! If my job doesn’t give me off for the parade, they will never see me again!! But they also know that in the era of social media, that type of thing could ruin their business around here!! We don’t play around when it comes to the Phils(or the Birds)!!
@@joshmason1460 yeah cuz sports pay your bills lol not responsible at all plus the reason the rays don’t fill up the stadium is due to Tampa being a retirment town
There's only one predictable thing, and that's the Astros making the ALCS.
The only normal thing about this post season is the Astros are playing good. That's literally it
Theres only one universal constant in baseball.
The astros and deep plyoff runs
The Baseball Gods thirst for Chaos of this Postseason is the reason why this year is getting weird, and I love it
There is only one constant in the mlb postseason, and that’s the Astros going to the ALCS
Which is unwatchable because it’s beyond tiring seeing the same team every year for a decade.
@@pm5206 You would've said the same thing about the Yankees in the 90s
The only division winner to actually show up in the playoffs (so far) - the Astros who were just recently getting destroyed by the bottom-feeding A's and Royals. Make it make sense.
The Astros have followed their predicted path so far. With a series win today, that will continue. So far, they're the only matchup to make sense.
I do have one counter to one of your points. You brought up the attendance at the Rays in the postseason and yes while it is an extremely low number, i think the blame should go more on MLB itself because who in their right mind decides to schedule a playoff game at 3:00 on Wednesday?
Those top seeds really struggled with the week off; it’s tough to get your hitters back to timing after that.
Also, the seeding format makes no sense for MLB. Either reseed after each round or don’t give the wc teams so many days off
Great content! It’s been crazy to see this post season unfold! I feel bad for the Os, but it’s great too to see the dbacks, rangers, and twins get some spotlight
All those walks in game 2 cost them very disappointing I’m going for Philly now
Great video! Thx for filling me in on everything that happened. I must admit I kinda tuned out after my team went into the witness protection program in Sept but your great work brought me back up to speed. Blessings!
The postseason is a such different realm in MLB. The absolutely unexpected happens. Even this postseason, I mean what in the world...
Just makes the Astros run more impressive. Calling the Braves a Dynasty after 1 ring is silly. It also shows there is not a huge difference between a 90 win team and 100 win team. Although if the Astros win again we might be stuck with Dusty for another year
If the Astros win again then clearly Dusty is a good manager lol
Braves aren't a dynasty yet, but they're on their way.
@@theflipper404Half of the Astros fanbase is now FULL of young bandwagon idiots 😂
Only in Houston do we hear people complain about someone winning championships.
Amongst all the madness, there's the Houston Astros lol
It wouldn't seem like a surprise if we see the Dbacks vs Rangers in the world series...seeing the Rangers win their first world series
The biggest problem some people are having are that the favorite " more popular " teams did not win. the excuse about the 5 day delay, is not a good example, when there is a team that has had that delay for many years and still wins. and that team is not the popular one.
Great stuff man! One of if not my favorite baseball channel. Well presented, informative, topical. You got your ESPN shows, MLB shows but I like the YT creators. No big budget studio, graphics and names. You and Fuzzy and a few others - it's like your listening to a neighborhood friend. Keep going, bro!
The most predictable part of this post season was the Astros taking out the trash.
WITHOUT using trash cans!!!
Right now only teams with a sixth best or worse record make up the League Championship & World Series.
How many times has that happened in the history of MLB?
If you know the answer then you know this format is the exact opposite of what the MLB postseason was designed to be.
Look, the postseason has been crazy, but the Houston Astros are still inevitable
Being consistent in regular season is good but that also means the opponents have 162 games to study how to beat them, while teams that didn't perform so well are a bit more unpredictable.
Disagree. That would be more film on ways to beat the lower performing teams and how to exploit their weaknesses.
A team hasn’t won back to back World Series in 30+ years? Astros said hold my beer
The Yankees won three world series in a row 1998, 1999, 2000. That's way less than 30 years bro.
The thing is, any team can be beat any team. The A's have won series against both the Braves and the Astros, the Royals have also won 5 out 6 games against the Astros in last month. Playoff predictions are just guesses at this point tbh. It almost makes me think playoff baseball doesn't matter because of the small sample size compared to the regular season.
They are all the best in the world and play at the mlb level.
If the A’s or Royals couldn’t win against these teams there would be zero point of having them in the league, they’re still vital even at the bottom of the Barrel
This is the problem with any playoff, carry it out to it's logical conclusion and it becomes obvious how stupid it is.
The only one that was very predictable is the Astros beating up on Gray. I’m sorry he’s a good pitcher, but it’s the Houston Astros. It was very predictable that they would score many times on him. He has basically no playoff experience except for the year he played for the Yankees. And he went up against a team that has been to the ALCS seven straight years. The guy had no chance.
The only thig thar is a constant is that the Astros are inevitable.
To defend TB fans for not showing up to a playoff game. MLB needs to do something about their scheduling of postseason games. How do you schedule a game at 3 pm on a Tuesday? People work and not everyone will take time off work to watch a Wild Card Round game. That’s what baseball fans are missing. Baseball content creators are failing to mention anything about that as well.
What does baseball have up it's sleeve next? The Dbacks take down the Phillies in 5 and Astros shut down the Rangers offense and win in five as well
This is Astros vs Everybody. Nothing else.
Just by looking at who qualified for the postseason before it even started you knew we were in for the most boring postseason in our lifetime and probably in mlb history… and it has delivered exactly that.
Goes to show. This new playoff scheme is not working. After 162 games. It's pretty clear who belongs in and who should be out.
You play that many games for a reason.
Also, having rest in baseball is not necessarily a good thing.
maybe reseeding after the wild card would help the top teams. that way the #1 plays the worst remaining.
And now the Dodgers just got swept by Arizona.
The payoffs from all these sports betting sites to produce a certain outcome must be exponentially more lucrative than winning the championship.
The Astros go to the ALCS for the seventh straight year. Very predictable.
I point to the best of three game wildcard process. hard for batters to not be impacted by 7-8 pause. Baltimore LA and now Atlanta basically frozen bats by teams that kept playing
(Disclosure: huge O’s fan here)
I don’t want to sound like I’m making excuses. You need to win in the postseason no matter how good you are in the regular. That’s life.
However, I have seen some good arguments lately against the 5-day-off rest period the division winners get. Baseball players cool off way faster than other sports players because they’re so used to playing constantly. At the end of the day though, they are professionals and they need to put up or get out. I understand the counter-argument too.
The only thing that I can see being a problem after this new rule change as of 2 years ago is that the incentive structure will change. What’s the point of winning the division in the regular if your club gets a massive 5-day cool-off period? I could see a future where a division leader starts to intentionally blow games at the tail end of the regular season so that they don’t win the division, but they still get a WC berth. That way (strategically) they can continue to play ball with the high-pressure atmosphere of the postseason (not the same environment as holding high-level practices during the 5-day bye). And that’s not a good precedent for the sport or for the loyal fans who’ve watched their teams for 6 months and 162 games.
Take this year so far as an example: It’s one thing if one top-seed team doesn’t make it to the LCS, but the fact that almost all the top-seed teams have not only lost their LDS, but have gotten swept? Something else is going on there: 5-day bye is making these hot regular-season teams polar-ice cold. I just don’t want MLB to become a “race for the WC but not the division” sport. I guess we’ll see how this plays out over the coming years when we get a larger sample size.
The regular season is just a test of how good a team can be over a long stretch. October where teams have to be great for each game and those don't always line up.
Watching Baseball since 1965, this is not baseball, DH, MLB Playoffs favor Wild Cards (Really). 100+ Win teams eliminated. 88 win teams get World Series. Why have a regular season? Why not all series 7 games? Owners want to sell more tickets and penalize the best teams in Baseball.
@@markcohen7991I agree. It’s now a joke. I call it fakeball. Bad teams don’t deserve to compete with good teams.
Postseason is more about being hot at the right team. Any team can have a hot stretch where they seem to be great every game. Any team can have a cold stretch. And either of those can happen at any time. Playoffs - especially expanded playoffs are mostly about luck.
BS. 2011 Phillies won 102 games and lost to the wild card cardinals. It happens. @@markcohen7991
Bad teams don't make playoffs. to say anyone not the best = bad is the dumbest argument. However I agree the wild cards are too heavily favored so far in this format.@@pm5206
Real Orioles fans knew that the starting pitch wasn't good enough for Playoff Baseball. The O's weren't even supposed to be this good yet.
11 walks in that 2nd game was tough man
Since the new format began, how many times have the two best regular season teams met in the World Series? My guess is very rarely, if at all. The plan for postseason success is get in and get hot at the right time. I seriously doubt that the New York Yankees would have 27 World Championships if they had been playing under the current format from day 1.
The problem is since this Wild Card system was put in place the 100+ win teams get knocked out by less wins teams before the World Series begins. The 100 win teams go into the start of the playoffs with pressure on them and players tired. The Wild Card teams have nothing to lose and have no pressure because they were not all that great during regular season. But MLB added Wild Card teams just to get tv, attendance & merchandise for those sub-par teams.
The rangers had 5 all stars all miss at least a month due to injury, eovaldi came back from injury and was 5mph lower velocity until his last start of the regular season and degrom and scherzer all missed significant time too, and still won 90 games. Niw, with the exception of degrom, all are back and healthy. Dont be fooled, this is the best team in the the AL.
you are totally wrong. A 100+ win team should breeze past an 89 win team. The 100+ win team gets to rest and play at home to start the series. Too bad if they aren’t ready for that. All the teams that win the Bye need to see what the Astros are doing and copy that
@@EthanDephouseEven bad teams can beat good teams. The Astros lost 5 out of 6 games to the royals last month.
@@EthanDephouse It takes a lot of work to win 100 games like in your star players playing almost every game. Feb. to start of Oct. to win 100 games and now you have two rounds of playoffs to play a lesser team that has no pressure. Sure MLB makes money off these Wild Card teams in the playoffs but try explaining to fans of the best teams that won over 100 games that a lousy under 90 win team knocked you out.
That's why Wild Card teams is a bad idea.@@christopherwells7869
The color announcer in the Astros-Twins game said that if the team that's down by 2 runs "doesn't score runs" "they won't win." I'm pouring through the rulebook to determine whether or not that's true.
I know anything can happen but if you don’t do something for a week you are going to be rusty. It’s longer than the all star break. It might be too early to tell but it seems this format strongly favors wild card teams. They going in with monument while the 1st place teams go in rusty. It’s obvious why the underdogs are winning because they are playing against teams that haven’t played in a week
Momentum not monument, just saying.
@@MountainFisher bad typo thank you
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The higher seed teams simply have no heart. MLB season isn’t a sprint it’s a marathon. 100+ wins means nothing when come playoff time all your pitchers and hitters are worn out from trying for 100.
Not true. They are not playing other teams with 100 wins like they should. Teams with less don’t deserve to be in playoffs.
@@pm5206 so only 100 win teams should be in the playoffs is what you’re saying?
@@pm5206 calling 90-99 win teams undeserving is so unreasonable .
It's because the teams with first round byes are at a disadvantage. Baseball is the most momentum driven sport and not playing for a week kills all of it. But MLB will never admit it because more teams in the playoffs means more TV $
Why aren’t the teams that win the bye doing what the Astros are doing? it seems to be working
@@EthanDephouse yea. I wander what the Astros could be doing differently...
@@blakefreeman3521 It's called winning.
In 2021, a 106W-56L wild card team upset their division winning rival in the National League Divisional Series to advance to the National League Championship Series. In the nineties, the wild card team could not play their own division winning rival until the league championship series.
Absolute truth. Crazy crazy crazy. Next spring when I hear the baseball pundits declare all their predictions I will just laugh out loud and watch another iTalk Studios video.
I'm from Taiwan. Baseball is so exciting, interesting, dramatic and unpredictable.
Thank you for your support from Taiwan! I assume you watch Tainan Josh?
As I leave this comment, the Phillies are currently ahead of the Braves 6-1 in Game 3 of the NLDS...
I know and because I’m a Braves fan it’s horrible for them because if they lose the might just lose they series
it's 7-1 right now.
Lost
I don't keep up with Arizona but have a good idea of them vs. LA. I was shocked when I saw AZ swept LA and 2-0 as visitors. I used to here that ol' saying that it's totally different in the playoffs. This year rings true...Texas swept Orioles? Wow.
Go Astros!
Used to *hear*
the astros are the only team that can say they will dominate in the post season every .. single .. year
Yeah ok.
I'm looking out for trashcans.
@cody0010 you're not gonna find them unless you build a time machine and go back 6 years. The astros are legit winning and have been for a long time. the 2017 scandal is irrelevant the Astros proved that by years of playoff dominance.
@@christianchampagne2281 It will always be relevant as long as there are still players there from 2017. I know they aren't doing anything now but that has really tainted that franchise and this whole run they have been on will be tainted as well.
@cody0010 it's not tainted. You guys just desperately want it to be and cling on to 2017 cause it's the only coping mechanism you have. Guarantee if you were on the 2017 astros team you wouldn't be able to do anything to stop what was going on with the sign stealing and you would be labeled as a cheater whether you participated directly or not. The whole not letting it go and acting as if you're above them is asinine, cheating has always been a big problem in the mlb it's only recently that they've actually been cracking down on it. Also, in 2017, Houston was damn near destroyed by Hurricane Harvey. Don't you think that any player on the fence about cheating would be swayed a little bit by that? Think about it they get to tip the balance in their favor and bring a championship home to a city that's never won a world series and was just devastated.
I think if you beat a team where in matters in the playoffs you have earned the right to say your the better team. This is the real test of the best, there are no throw away games, there are no “easy teams” to pad your stats against. Every game matters unlike the regular season. And every team is playing from first pitch to last pitch. Long story short I don’t like this calling the losers better teams, if they were better teams they would have won. The winners earned their wins they were the better team at this moment.
Amen!
Only constant....Astros winning.....inevitable
Unpredictable? Are you kidding? What is predictable is that a baseball team loses after spending nearly a week not playing real games, to a team which has kept sharp by playing a wild card series. In other sports a bit of rest is welcome. For example, a hockey team can use a break to let minor injuries heal.
I think anyone who watches baseball could’ve predicted Baltimore losing. They have absolutely no experience, and in baseball the game can easily change with a swing of the bat. You need experience in the playoffs to understand how to deal with that kind of pressure, you don’t get that in the regular season. In 2 years they def have a chance at the World Series.
Exactly. Facing a postseason master in Bruce Bochy was already tough enough for the Orioles
Well Astros winning and most likely taking it all is pretty predictable whether people like it or not
It is insanity to see wildcard teams make to the Championship series. You know MLB is loving this and it shows that wildcard teams have a chance now to do something. I mean look at last year's NLCS, two wildcard teams in the Phillies and Padres. Anything can happen in sports. Damn we even had 4 home runs in a post season inning which NEVER happened before. Again anything can happen.
I'd say the MLB isn't loving this. They want teams like the Dodgers/Yankees/Red Sox to make the championship for viewership.
@@rizon72they’re shitting at the thought of Texas-Dbacks World Series
If anything can happen, why not just let them all in then? This is all becoming so pointless. Feels like the NFL, which is gross. There was a time when the only playoff was a 7 game series between the two division WINNERS to see who gets to play in the World Series. That was when baseball was fun. This contrived drama is tedious and feels like it's meant to appeal to people who don't actually like baseball as much as they just want fake spectacle.
MLB in no way likes anything that has happened. An all Texas ALCS with the possibility of Astros winning WS again. Their darling teams not even making/showing up for the playoffs. And several teams that have zero national fan base in the mix. They are literally scrambling to make sure this wont happen again.
the only thing that has made no sense to me so far was the orioles being fully non competitive. Probably would have predicted an O's vs Braves, or O's vs Phillies WS
I went to game 2 of the nlds at dodger stadium I was on the Jumbotron
Exceptional video! Playoff baseball is so different. You gotta love it.
From a neutral standpoint, am I the only one that thinks it’s been a boring postseason? No winner take all games. 1 game out of 20 games won in the last at bat (Philadelphia Atlanta game 2, the only interesting game to me). 13 games the teams that scored first won. No back and forth, the lead never changed more than once in all 20 games. All 8 series were won by the team that won game 1. No winning team ever trailed their series. Here’s hoping the LCS and WS are better.
Dbacks just beat LA in the nlds. I see nothing out of the ordinary tbh.
I think they’re getting too much rest for the top seeds and it’s actually a negative to have the top seed.
No, according to the actual facts, your team choked. Looking at the facts, there is a team that constantly has had the bye, and still steps up. year after year.
@@Keithdehart thats an anomaly not tthe styandard
Nice video, but let’s hold off on gargling all the former red Sox’s nuts.
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But in all seriousness can we get another Betts video, think he is good for your goals. You’ve got the 100k, now we need to turn you into the Pat Mcafee of the MLB.
not mentioned: the Rays had 3/5 of their starting lineup on IL so the Rangers basically played Tampa’s AAA team
This channel and jomboy have completely reignited my love for baseball!
This really does mean a lot. Thank you!!!
Idea: Let the two worst teams for both leagues play the teams that have the bye to keep everyone fresh
Yeah I was thinking the same thing.
Imagine the Rangers had deGrom and Sherzer pitching??? Oh wait, they did last year for the Mets against the overrated padres and sucked
A bye week is supposed be to beneficial for the top 2, yet, it's providing a like the double edged sword.
As a Red Sox fan. I approve of our division not winning! 😂
Honestly was rooting for the O’s but it is quite funny seeing the ALBeast put 3 teams in the postseason and not a single one of them got one win in the playoffs (also a Sox fan)
@@BendyDH respect! I like the Os. Over everyone else in our division. Just cause. How can’t you root for them? They are a fun team!
8:34 LOL, KerChoke tossing BP for a third of an inning! Hahhaha😅😅😅😅😅😅
Such a clean cut delivery in your dialogue, and keeping it short and sweet. Subbed brother! Go Rangers!
It’s made perfect sense to me. That’s why I had Texas vs AZ in the World Series
Well one thing made sense, Astros headed to another ALCS
Troll job for sure from the baseball gods! You nailed it bro. Good video!
Nothing makes sense anymore.
Just throw out the regular season and do a tournament at the end with all teams being involved. Make the regular season just a bit more irrelevant than it is now. This is why I gave up following baseball, it’s pointless, the regular season record gains a team no advantage.
The randomness factor is larger in baseball than other sports, that’s why you need such a large sample size long season (yet for some reason the DS is only a 5 game series). Also it’s not natural for these teams with a first round bye to have 5 days off between games.
The playoffs this year makes no sense because of the increase in interleague play. Teams had lopsided records because they got to play shitty teams in the other league a lot more than in previous seasons, that made a lot of teams look better than they really were.
thats a good point
I remember the last regular season game between Phillies and Braves I commented on FB saying PS series is the only one that matters and I got crucifix by fans lmao
Well so far I’m right
At this point the braves might be better in a wildcard spot, the rest days have really messed up the offense.
Baseball showing why analytics don't tell the whole picture
Almost the same thing that happened last year, at least in the NL. The Braves, Mets and Dodgers all got bounced early last year after winning 100+ games. 🤦♂️
No matter what happens, this has and will be the most entertaining post season in mlb history up to this point
Death, taxes, and the astros in the alcs
Love the content. Great job man
all im hearing is "astros take care of business" while everyone else cries "its not fair" from all these playoff format cries and 162 game season....
2 years in a row Astros prove the playoff format allegations wrong
Nonsense. One team is an anomaly. The format is awful. No team with 84 wins deserves to be in LCS. Let alone playoffs entirely. What’s next? 82? Should the goal is to purposely lose games in regular season and win enough to somehow be champions?