2009 Playoffs Thread

[Jewbility]

3 back in the loss column with 32 left.

I think a 21-11 will do it

[Fish and Chips]

Standings as of 9/5

NL Wild Card

TEAM      WIN     LOSS     GB      E#    REMAINING

COL       75       60      ---    ---     27
SFG       74       61      1.0     27     27
FLA       71       64      4.0     24     27
ATL       70       65      5.0     23     27

Teams Mathematically Alive: 13
Worst Team Remaining: Pittsburgh (53-80, E# 8)

Wins Needed for 90 Total: 19

Tonight's Games

FLA (Johnson) @ WSH (Hernandez) [7:05]
CIN (Wells) @ ATL (Jurrjens) [7:00]
ARI (Davis) @ COL (Contreras) [8:10]

In Progress
SFG 2 MIL 0 bot 4th

[Jewbility]

We need to pick up one game each week until the season is over. When you look at it that way, it's doable

[Fish and Chips]

Standings as of 9/5

NL Wild Card

TEAM      WIN     LOSS     GB      E#    REMAINING

COL       76       60      ---    ---     26
SFG       75       61      1.0     26     26
FLA       72       64      4.0     23     26
ATL       70       66      6.0     21     26

Teams Mathematically Alive: 13
Worst Team Remaining: Pittsburgh (53-81, E# 6)

Wins Needed for 90 Total: 18

Tonight's Games

FLA (Sanchez) @ WSH (Martin) [1:35]
CIN (Cueto) @ ATL (Hudson) [1:30]
SF (Sanchez) @ MIL (Looper) [2:05]
ARI (Petit) @ COL (De La Rosa) [3:10]

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

To you guys that are updating the countdown, you may want to bring the division race back into this.

With both the Rockies and the Giants winning today, we are now 5.5 games back of the wild card. With the Phillies loss, we are now 6 back of the division title.

Our best bet of going to the playoffs appears to be the division. There is only a 0.5 game difference between the two races but, while we are 5.5 games behind 2 teams that won't lose and we are done playing, we are only 6 games behind 1 team that has lost 4 in a row that we play 6 more times.

[Swifty]

Yeah, I agree.

We aren't winning the wild card. We probably aren't winning the division either, but if we're more likely to win one, it's the division if for no other reason than the number of head to heads remaining (and even then, Philly pretty much needs to just beat us twice to end it all).

[Fish and Chips]

Standings as of 9/10

NL East

TEAM      WIN     LOSS     GB      E#     L10    REMAINING     

PHI       79       58      ---    ---     5-5     25
FLA       74       65      6.0     19     7-3     23
ATL       71       68      9.0     16     3-7     23

Teams Mathematically Alive: 4
Worst Team Remaining: New York (62-77, E# 7)

NL Wild Card

TEAM      WIN     LOSS     GB      E#     L10    REMAINING

COL       80       60      ---    ---     8-2     22
SFG       76       64      4.0     19     5-5     22
FLA       74       65      5.5     18     7-3     23

Teams Mathematically Alive: 13
Worst Team Remaining: Arizona (62-79, E# 4)

Wins Needed for 90 Total: 16
Win Percentage Needed: .696

Tonight's Games
CIN (Wells) @ COL (Contreras) [3:10]
PHI (Blanton) @ WSH (Hernandez) [7:05]
FLA (West) @ NYM (Parnell) [7:10]
ATL (Lowe) @ HOU (Oswalt) [8:05]



Off
San Francisco


Where We Stand
5.5 back of the Wild Card (3rd place)
6.0 back of the Division (2nd place)
28-21 since the All Star Break
12-6 in games in which Nick Johnson play in

[Party]

Damn Rockies and their streaking.

Bright side: We're on pace for 86.1 wins.

Rockies are 20 over so they can play .500 ball for the rest of the year and still win 90 games. I think they'll do better than that. I hope this doesn't come down to 2-3 games in the standings. Boner isn't the sole reason for the team falling out of the race, but 2-3 GB at the end of the month plus three months of Erection at the top of the lineup makes that trade even worse. (I know the blame game can go futher and start implicating members of the rotation but I am considering this from a GM's standpoint. I.e: Boner's performance was expected. Ricky's and Volstad's were not.)

[Swifty]

But Bonifuckface stole like 18 bases on opening day!

[Jewbility]

In all likelihood Colorado will never lose again

[Ice]

Colorado is going to pull a fucking 2007.

[The_Godfather]

Fuck the wild card, let's go after the Phillies!

[Fish and Chips]

Standings as of 9/11

NL East

TEAM      WIN     LOSS     GB      E#     L10    REMAINING     

PHI       79       59      ---    ---     4-6     24
FLA       75       65      5.0     19     7-3     22
ATL       72       68      8.0     16     4-6     22

Teams Mathematically Alive: 4
Worst Team Remaining: New York (62-78, E# 6)

NL Wild Card

TEAM      WIN     LOSS     GB      E#     L10    REMAINING

COL       81       60      ---    ---     9-1     21
SFG       76       64      4.5     18     5-5     22
FLA       75       65      5.5     17     7-3     22

Teams Mathematically Alive: 13
Worst Team Remaining: Arizona (62-79, E# 3)

Wins Needed for 90 Total: 15
Win Percentage Needed: .682

Tonight's Games
NYM (Figueroa) @ PHI (Hamels) [7:05]
WSH (Martin) @ FLA (Johnson) [7:10]
ATL (Jurrjens) @ STL (Pineiro) [8:15]
COL (De La Rosa) @ SD (Mujica) [10:05]
LAD (Kuroda) @ SF (Cain) [10:15]


Where We Stand
5.5 back of the Wild Card (3rd place)
5.0 back of the Division (2nd place)
29-21 since the All Star Break
13-6 in games in which Nick Johnson play in

[Metes]

Colorado is going to pull a fucking 2007.

Eventually run into the buzzsaw that is a clearly superior AL team?

[Marlinsfan4lyfe]

Mets need to help us out big time this weekend
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hopefully we can sweep the nationals and the mets can take 2 of 3 from the Phils