JotCast | AL Wild Card Live Chat

Sheryl Ring

7:44

Who will win tonight's AL Wild Card game?

Yankees (55.9% | 100 votes)

A's (44.1% | 79 votes)

Total Votes: 179

Good Evening Everybody!

7:45

Let's wait a few minutes for a few more folks to come in and we'll get started.

7:47

And away...we...go

7:48

I'm Sheryl Ring, your friendly neighborhood legal analyst.

Dan will be along shortly

And Sean Dolinar as well

Isaac

7:48

Sheryl Ring

7:48

Hi Isaac!

Confused Englishman

7:48

Maybe another poll on who we want to win?

Sheryl Ring

7:49

Who do you want to win tonight's AL Wild Card game?

A's (59.9% | 103 votes)

Yankees (32.6% | 56 votes)

Neither (2.9% | 5 votes)

Can we skip to the Division Series already? (4.7% | 8 votes)

Total Votes: 172

Joe

7:49

Sheryl, what is your legal opinion on the Dodgers labeling their employees "criminals"

Sheryl Ring

7:49

To quote Joe Girardi, "It's not what you want."

7:50

I'll do a longer piece on this, but if it's as it's presented in SI, I'm not optimistic for the Dodgers. Suspensions and MLB discipline could be the least of their worries.

CamdenWarehouse

7:50

as you write more about baseball, how is your Yankee fandom holding up?

Sheryl Ring

7:51

I left Yankees fandom after the Osuna trade. Can't reconcile it with the presence of Aroldis Chapman.

Tim

7:51

Odds of today being the most HR ever in a single playoff game? I believe this matchup features the highest ever combined total by the two participants.

Sheryl Ring

7:51

Fun fact: the A's stunk against superhigh velocity (96+ this year). I think it'll be surprisingly low scoring.

Frank

7:52

If the Yankees lose, MLB HAS to change the wild card game into a best of 3 series next season, right?

Sheryl Ring

7:52

I still like Travis Sawchik's best-of-two idea. Absent that, there's no shame in losing to a team that won 98 games. The A's are really, really good.

I mean, we wouldn't be saying the playoff system was broken if the 100-win Yankees lost to the 91-win Indians.

Astros

7:53

Who do we have a better chance of beating?

Sheryl Ring

7:53

I think the A's, because they can't bullpen every game. You need some decent starter eventually.

Matt

7:54

What are the odds MLB actually restructuring the divisions and just making it AL and NL like the NBA does east and west?

Sheryl Ring

7:54

HankLloydWright

7:55

I love the one game wild card! I know I'm in a minority, but it's fun!

Sheryl Ring

7:55

It is *lots* of fun. I had no rooting interest in last night's game, and I had a blast.

Matt

7:55

Doesn’t that make the most logical sense. Top 3 teams win, 4-5 play in game

Sheryl Ring

7:56

Logic would also require a universal DH. But if baseball was logical, it wouldn't be fun.

Wireless Joe Jackson

7:56

MLB taking any action solely because the Yankees lost would rightly be met with derision and outrage by everyone not a Yankees fan. And probably a lot of Yankees fans too.

Sheryl Ring

7:56

Also, because the Yankees could have avoided this by winning the division.

Simon

7:57

Weird how rarely it is someone mentions the Twins huge mistake giving up on Aaron Hicks...

Sheryl Ring

7:57

Was it really though? I mean, hindsight is 20/20, but Hicks to that point was an oft-injured toolsy CF.

MickeyMe

7:58

Agree that our current WC format works *so* much better than the old system. The division race really matters now, and this one game winner-take-all offers incredible drama.

Simon

7:58

He was one of their top prospects before Buxton showed up.

stever20

7:58

thing folks forget- the gap between Rockies/Cubs was 1 game greater than the gap between the A's/Yankees. Don't hear many folks crying about how unfair it was for the Cubs quite frankly....

MickeyMe

7:58

Logic does NOT require a universal DH. It requires no DH anywhere, assuming you want actual athletes playing the game.

Sheryl Ring

7:58

Your logic is flawed, Mickey.

Guy Smiley

7:59

The current Wildcard format rewards division winners appropriately and taxes runners up appropriately. Want out of this game NYY? Win your division.

Sheryl Ring

7:59

It seems that you want the A's to win, but expect the Yankees to win.

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