Listening to Braves/Padres, and they just mentioned that the team that wins Game 1 of the WC series has gone on to advance 88% of the time. 'Course, that's only like a three-year sample but, hell, I'll take it.
This is a great article from a couple months back pointing out the rarely-spoken but undeniable subtext that Rose benefitted tremendously from being Cincinnati’s Great White Hope, both during his career and after the ban.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/pete-rose-and-the-complicated-legacy-of-cincinnati-baseball
Twins are down 6-0 and it's only the third. And Baltimore isn't even fielding its A-1 lineup.
No matter what happens for our guys in the coming days, at least we won't have to try and keep warm through the winter on this kind of dogsh*t.
As in '06, my first thoughts are of my maternal grandmother (1904–1990), who always – I mean *always* – had the Tigers on her TV and/or kitchen radio in the summertime.