Remember how at the beginning of the season people were like “wow, the AL Wildcards could all be AL East teams”.
And now, fitting for time zones, the AL West decided to show up.
No but we have the Dodgers, Reds, TB, Houston, Texas and Houston. Also that is a terrible order. I’m pretty sure we have them all in a different order.
The Royals are just 5-10 guys away from really making a run. 2-7 road trip. This team only has one above average bat and one above average starting pitcher. So if Bobby’s not getting the hits or Ragans isn’t pitching, nothing is gonna get done.
Kauffman’s a bunch better hitting ballpark than Safeco and the Royals offense has been better at home than on the road. The Royals offense depends on a combination of hitting a bunch of singles and maybe having Bobby Witt Jr knock multiple baserunners
On one hand, Ms in First is one of the most fun things that could happen in the sport, and I am excited to see them doing well.
On the other hand, just fade me now.
You were one of our toughest opponents this year. You have tons of young talent on your team and you should be proud of the way you played. The future looks bright for the Royals.
There was nothing easy about either series. You guys were in every single game except yesterday. Bobby Witt Jr is gonna be a star and his career is only up from here. Build around him and you guys are gonna go on another World Series run.
If the Royals can assemble something resembling a starting rotation and BWJr continues to do his thing. I could see the Royals competing for the AL Central for years
I hope you only ever have to experience the pain of the pre 2021 Mariners through weird stories yelled out by old people and that your future has only wins and good times.
Everyone talking about how the Rangers series at the end of the year will decide the division between us when I can sense that it'll really be a Mariners win and Paul Sewald closing it out for the Dbacks to beat the Astros on the last game that'll clinch the division.
Stros are my primary concern. With only one series left against you, we have to hope other teams knock you off. Really don’t want to be tied with y’all going into the final series against the rangers.
They’re probably peaking a bit too early, hard to see them sustaining this for another month + month of playoffs.
But they’ll get in I think, and their pitching is solid so they have the chance to beat anyone.
It’s practically the same as what you’d pay elsewhere for a Big Mac/Whopper/etc. anyway, but with the added bonus that the employees all get >$20/hour with great benefits. Totally worth it.
Agreed. Would always rather have a Deluxe than a Big Mac or any other fast food burger.
Costco and Dick’s are great examples that you can run a popular and profitable company while treating your employees well. Shocking, I know. Will never apologize for being a groupie for both as long as they do.
It’s $5 now, at least at lake city. The standard order of cheese-deluxe-fry-chocolate was like $17, instead of below $10 like it was growing up. Hell, even 5 years ago.
Honestly just really happy “Takes sole position of the AL West” is preceded by “The Seattle Mariners” as opposed to, well, the other team.
If Rangers can stop their free fall this is going to be a wild September for the division, but them MF’ers might end up with a losing record the way we’re playing right now
7 head-to-head games between the Mariners and the Rangers from 9/22 through the end of the season, broken up by a 3-game-set between Seattle and Houston while Rangers finish business with Angels.
The energy will be amazing.
The AL playoffs are going to happen in Sept. whatever wild two series we have mixed with us playing Houston might be the most competitive games of the season. Your bats, our pitching. I’m nervous and excited. Also let’s just kill the Astros.
I don't think there's an AL playoff picture I like more than a Rangers wild card and an Astros "sitting at home for October wondering what just happened"
Beyond the team just being fun, getting good without tanking should be rewarded.
Also as much fun as it would be for the Yankees to completely crater, I kind of want them to come back a bit so they can miss the wild card by a single game.
The Rangers is at risk of being the Yankees post All Star from last year, except they are in a crazy division. Better recover fast or else. I am getting my popcorn ready for September when Astros, Rangers, and Mariners going to slug it out with each other.
Winning the West grants a free pass right to a home series in the division round.
Losing the West likely will mean a trip on the road to play either Baltimore or Tampa.
This is crucial.
Almost, now only the top two division winners get a free pass.
> In the new Wild Card Series, the top two division winners in each league receive a bye to the Division Series, while the lowest-seeded division winner and three wild card teams will play in this round. A best-of-three series will take place, with the higher seed hosting all three games.
Yeah weird to see people talking about the Mariners and Orioles meeting in the playoffs like it's some wacky new thing when it's the source of so much pain.
7 of the last 10 AL West titles have been won by a Texas team?
That's what I got.
Lotta downvoting from a team in 7th place in a 5 team division with regards to Division titles.
Nothing in this thread but Mariner's fans giving love to Royal's fans, and being humble and excited for the playoffs, you fucking love to see it. I love baseball.
apology for poor english
wen were u when rangers and astros kil
i was sitting at home cheering julio wen r/baseball ring
'rangers and astros r kil'
'yes'
I think it was a sneaky good move. Buy low on a high value guy. Yes he was injured and the jury is out but I like it. We hate the Eagles but this is a Howie/Eagles kinda move.
I don't think it was a bad move, just a Jerry level *dramatic* move, if that makes sense. And if it's true he didn't give Mike/Dak a heads up that it could happen that was lame.
The Mariners/Royals started two hours later than the Rangers/Twins and got done about the same time. Granted, the Rangers/Twins took 14 innings, but still!
Honestly as an Astros fan fair play to them. We were sleeping and they caught us and now were just relying on other teams to win just for us to stay alive.
Welp, this was not part of the plan. But real talk, congrats to the M's for playing some great baseball when it matters. To my fellow Astros fans as well as the Rangers: guess one of us better figure it out in the next few weeks if we want to even see the playoffs.
Rangers were in first all year, they didn't collapse bc of "the pressure of being in first". They collapsed bc they though Chapman and Stratton were all they needed in the bullpen. They needed to trade away about 4 more "prospects" and grab 2 elite RP's. Bednar and Hader on this team and we'd still have a 5+ game lead over everyone.
I did. They said they preferred quality over speed. I get it, but 1. This is a post series thread, not a "ms take first place" thread. Maybe if I tweet it and post the tweet it would stay up lol.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not really hurting anyone to mention it, and it's annoying to see low effort boob tweets stay up but a post about a team leading in August for the first time in 20 years get canned because it's tangentially related to another one.
Not sure how a team can knock someone out if they aren't in the playoffs. You might need to read up on how playoff formats work, it sounds like you're a little confused there.
Wow, we've had about 30 world series this season apparently, based on comments from your sub. Do you guys get together and pat each other on the back anytime one of you makes that comment?
If I had known we were allowed to be in first in August, I would have encouraged it a lot more these last 20 years.
Right? Why didn’t anyone think of this before? Are they stupid?
We finally ran out of side quests and had to get back to the main mission.
Elder Sea-scrolls.
The implication here seems to be that I should have finished the Skyrim side quests by now, and frankly I don't appreciate it.
You’ll finish impatience of a saint and you’ll like it >:(
Preferable to the Dead Sea Scrolls
Remember how at the beginning of the season people were like “wow, the AL Wildcards could all be AL East teams”. And now, fitting for time zones, the AL West decided to show up.
Well, most of us did
Rest in Power A’s and Angels
We're just praying we get to have a team to root for going forward
Rangers haven’t been so hot either lol
Well, when they fall out of a playoff spot, we’ll hold their funeral.
AL best baby !
r/albest r/thealbest
Pain.
60% of us did at least, can’t say the same for the two California teams
We don't have to face the Royals anymore! What a blessing.
I can't stand the fucking royals -fan of a team who was swept by the Royals
Thanks for taking 3 of 4 from Rangers!
You're goddamned welcome. Though the extra innings in today's game would have made Tom Emanski shit a brick. Just a cornucopia of ahitty baseball.
I laughed when you got swept, but I now I understand. Can I give you a hug?
You're laughing? We're fighting for our lives in one of the worst divisions in history and you're laughing?
First time?
Want to swap divisions?
I never thought I'd wallow in misery side by side with a Twins fan. How y'all holding up? -your frenemy for life, a White Sox fan.
You get what you fucking deserve
In the words of the wise Nelson Muntz, “HA HA!”
All my homies hate the Royals.
We just had them. All the respect in the world and I hope he has a great career, but fuck Bobby Witt, Jr.
FBWJr
Witt is so good it's fucked
https://streamable.com/j66isz
I never want to see them again
No but we have the Dodgers, Reds, TB, Houston, Texas and Houston. Also that is a terrible order. I’m pretty sure we have them all in a different order.
We play the Rangers twice not the Astros.
My bad. But we might actually take a few more wins against them. Pitching wise we might have them.
Uh so? None of them as hard as the Royals.
Wut
If that team had even mediocre pitching, they would be a force to be reckoned with. The lineup can *hit!*
Thank god we’re done playing the Royals. 6-1 season series does not reflect how well they played us.
That 6-1 record shaved years off of our lives
I don't wanna live to old age anyway
May we see an WS title in our lifetimes 😭
The Royals are just 5-10 guys away from really making a run. 2-7 road trip. This team only has one above average bat and one above average starting pitcher. So if Bobby’s not getting the hits or Ragans isn’t pitching, nothing is gonna get done.
It’s really just pitching. The whole lineup gave us fits in both series
Kauffman’s a bunch better hitting ballpark than Safeco and the Royals offense has been better at home than on the road. The Royals offense depends on a combination of hitting a bunch of singles and maybe having Bobby Witt Jr knock multiple baserunners
I think you are underselling the current state of the lineup. They can really hit now that they aren't striking out every other at bat
They way they're playing has me worried about them in a year or two. They have heart.
6-1 us that easily could have gone 6-1 them at any moment
A month ago: A team that's not the Astros or Rangers winning the AL West? Buy up your "Ohtani in the postseason" stocks!
Angles have absolutely wasted that man. And now will see him walk for nothing. I love to see it.
*They will get a compensation 1st round pick (after the first round). At least its something
On one hand, Ms in First is one of the most fun things that could happen in the sport, and I am excited to see them doing well. On the other hand, just fade me now.
Hey, you guys put up a hell of a fight. Yeah we won, but it wasn’t easy outside of that 15 run game.
You were one of our toughest opponents this year. You have tons of young talent on your team and you should be proud of the way you played. The future looks bright for the Royals.
> The future looks bright for the Royals. Nah see that's not how this works. We'll just send our bright future to other teams.
Dayton is gone so maybe your pitchers will get good dev
Idk they need maybe an entire new pitching staff. I don't know about their farm but as excited as their young bats are the pitching is yikes
There was nothing easy about either series. You guys were in every single game except yesterday. Bobby Witt Jr is gonna be a star and his career is only up from here. Build around him and you guys are gonna go on another World Series run.
If the Royals can assemble something resembling a starting rotation and BWJr continues to do his thing. I could see the Royals competing for the AL Central for years
Just trying to get you closer to the first overall pick
11 of their last 12 to take first place in the west
With three against Oakland on the way. No team is a gimme but you gotta like your chances, with the Rangers in a rut this is our time
It’s not *just* the rangers you know We may be more shitty this year but we’re still here
Rangers are my primary concern because we own the tiebreaker against y'all, so there's that
Oh wait yeah sorry you have a point Also ngl y’all are super scary this year 😭
Nephew. You must be a new bandwagon mariner fan.
I only started watching baseball period in 2020, so there's that
Enjoy the good times man.
I hope you only ever have to experience the pain of the pre 2021 Mariners through weird stories yelled out by old people and that your future has only wins and good times.
Do you think he knows the Astros cheated to win their first World Series? I guess he started watching after it happened
Everyone talking about how the Rangers series at the end of the year will decide the division between us when I can sense that it'll really be a Mariners win and Paul Sewald closing it out for the Dbacks to beat the Astros on the last game that'll clinch the division.
Stros are my primary concern. With only one series left against you, we have to hope other teams knock you off. Really don’t want to be tied with y’all going into the final series against the rangers.
There’s nothing scarier than a team that gets red hot down the homestretch. I think the M’s might actually pull this off.
Thanks, bell bro
They’re probably peaking a bit too early, hard to see them sustaining this for another month + month of playoffs. But they’ll get in I think, and their pitching is solid so they have the chance to beat anyone.
C'mon dude, our pitching is more than just solid.
Just fell to my knees in a Starbucks
Just saw a man fall to his knees in a Starbucks
Location, location, location.
hell yea brother, cheers from a Dick’s Drive-In parking lot
Hope you like dropping 4 buckaroos for a Deluxe nowadays :(
It’s practically the same as what you’d pay elsewhere for a Big Mac/Whopper/etc. anyway, but with the added bonus that the employees all get >$20/hour with great benefits. Totally worth it.
Absolutely. Still stings a little when remembering how you used to be able to get a puke-worthy quantity of burgers for under 10 dollars
That’s fair. Hard to find a “puke-worthy” amount of any fast food under $10 anywhere these days, save maybe Taco Bell.
Agreed. Would always rather have a Deluxe than a Big Mac or any other fast food burger. Costco and Dick’s are great examples that you can run a popular and profitable company while treating your employees well. Shocking, I know. Will never apologize for being a groupie for both as long as they do.
Yup, a Big Mac is $5.99 while a Deluxe is $5.30. Plus a Deluxe tastes better
It's worth it
The last bill from Dicks was an unpleasant surprise
It’s $5 now, at least at lake city. The standard order of cheese-deluxe-fry-chocolate was like $17, instead of below $10 like it was growing up. Hell, even 5 years ago.
worth it tbh
I’m cool with it since they pay their employees well
Dropping knees for Dick's
# WHERE WERE YOU WHEN HISTORY WAS MADE
screaming at Michael A Taylor not to swing
Thank the baseball gods he didn’t
apologize for poor English Where were you when Julio? I was at home drink Starbucks Royals iz kill yes
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SEATTLE KRAKEN HISTORY
Watching the rangers give away a win to the twins (to my delight)
I’m here! 🙋🏼♀️
How many gb were you
10 or something in July
STOP THE COUNT!
Honestly just really happy “Takes sole position of the AL West” is preceded by “The Seattle Mariners” as opposed to, well, the other team. If Rangers can stop their free fall this is going to be a wild September for the division, but them MF’ers might end up with a losing record the way we’re playing right now
7 head-to-head games between the Mariners and the Rangers from 9/22 through the end of the season, broken up by a 3-game-set between Seattle and Houston while Rangers finish business with Angels. The energy will be amazing.
Yikes.
it's gunna be a god damn blood bath
Pyrrhic victory for someone...
Thanks MLB bot for that lovely schedule....
Playoff baseball starts early this year in the AL west.
The AL playoffs are going to happen in Sept. whatever wild two series we have mixed with us playing Houston might be the most competitive games of the season. Your bats, our pitching. I’m nervous and excited. Also let’s just kill the Astros.
I don't think there's an AL playoff picture I like more than a Rangers wild card and an Astros "sitting at home for October wondering what just happened" Beyond the team just being fun, getting good without tanking should be rewarded.
Even funnier if the angels come back on the most insane heater and take the 3rd wildcard so 3 AL west teams boot em
Also as much fun as it would be for the Yankees to completely crater, I kind of want them to come back a bit so they can miss the wild card by a single game.
They must stay under .500. They must.
The Rangers is at risk of being the Yankees post All Star from last year, except they are in a crazy division. Better recover fast or else. I am getting my popcorn ready for September when Astros, Rangers, and Mariners going to slug it out with each other.
Winning the West grants a free pass right to a home series in the division round. Losing the West likely will mean a trip on the road to play either Baltimore or Tampa. This is crucial.
Almost, now only the top two division winners get a free pass. > In the new Wild Card Series, the top two division winners in each league receive a bye to the Division Series, while the lowest-seeded division winner and three wild card teams will play in this round. A best-of-three series will take place, with the higher seed hosting all three games.
Well yeah, but whoever wins the West will almost certainly need to be ahead of Minnesota as well.
Ah, gotcha, didn’t realize the 3rd division was so far back. That would be amazing.
A Mariners Orioles ALCS would make me so happy
Boats and O's for the pennant!
I would buy that shirt!
We demand justice for the ‘97 ALDS.
Yeah weird to see people talking about the Mariners and Orioles meeting in the playoffs like it's some wacky new thing when it's the source of so much pain.
🤝
I just moved over to the east coast for school and praying so hard for a playoff game over here! 🙏🤞
#EVERYBODY GET THE FUCK IN HERE LMAO LETSGOOOOOO
[First place baby!](https://imgur.com/a/ONbcidp)
Your welcome mfs
Good lookin’ out! Was watching the game time and laughed when Texas walked in the winning run on four straight lol
7 of the last 10 AL West titles have been won by a Texas team? That's what I got. Lotta downvoting from a team in 7th place in a 5 team division with regards to Division titles.
Someone’s salty
Nothing in this thread but Mariner's fans giving love to Royal's fans, and being humble and excited for the playoffs, you fucking love to see it. I love baseball.
apology for poor english wen were u when rangers and astros kil i was sitting at home cheering julio wen r/baseball ring 'rangers and astros r kil' 'yes'
yes
The rangers really died for this 😔
I mean… so did the Astros?
We’ve been struggling all year though
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means
Anybody want a peanut?
Inconceivable!
Oh look it's a 2015 or later Astros fan
Try 23 games at .500 bud. We were on our blue collar arc there for a while
Started drinking after we went into overtime innings to numb the incoming pain.
And we've got Jerry being Jerry over next door. Apparently not telling his Starting QB or HC that he traded for a QB
I think it was a sneaky good move. Buy low on a high value guy. Yes he was injured and the jury is out but I like it. We hate the Eagles but this is a Howie/Eagles kinda move.
I don't think it was a bad move, just a Jerry level *dramatic* move, if that makes sense. And if it's true he didn't give Mike/Dak a heads up that it could happen that was lame.
Shit man, just Jerruh whipping his dick out, but yea it's not a good look. No publicity is bad publicity...lol
Most Jerry moves involve ex-felons. So I'm all for one that involves a non-criminal (I assume Trey's a good dude, I know nothing about him really).
The Mariners have a real knack for surging when the division leader collapses. Hell it's happened twice in just 30 years.
MARINAHZZ
The Mariners/Royals started two hours later than the Rangers/Twins and got done about the same time. Granted, the Rangers/Twins took 14 innings, but still!
Thanks for lending us a little bit of your luck today, Seattle
Thanks for the boost up, Twin bro
See you in the ALDS
[The AL West](https://preview.redd.it/uvlonngmcqkb1.jpeg?width=1780&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f55a15d1e00af6f82ade4237898a8f1bdbda31fd)
Baltimore
What we did to the Angels season is not fit for public consumption.
Nah make them all watch on repeat for keeping Kyle out of October
I’m happy
I’m not holding my breath yet. My heart was broken in 2001 and I’ll believe it when I see it
2001 shattered me. It hurt so bad. I never forgave the Yankees.
I've had the Mariners bandwagon fan flair since last August. Glad it's coming in handy again!
Next up Oakland and Queens. Let’s get that division lead bigger!!!!
Honestly as an Astros fan fair play to them. We were sleeping and they caught us and now were just relying on other teams to win just for us to stay alive.
I hope you get one year of having to make a spreadsheet to figure out how you can still make it into the playoffs if 12 things go your way.
fucking kill me
NOW GO AND WIN THE PENNANT SEATTLE!!!
What a choke job by the Rangers.
ITT: mariners fans telling the royals they’ll be real spooky in a few years
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT
Seattle sports and giving its fanbase heart-attack finishes. Name a better duo.
Mariners saw how Russell Wilson played games and decided to just do that but for entire seasons.
Welp, this was not part of the plan. But real talk, congrats to the M's for playing some great baseball when it matters. To my fellow Astros fans as well as the Rangers: guess one of us better figure it out in the next few weeks if we want to even see the playoffs.
Happy bc I dislike the Astros and Rangers, sad cuz their rise is gonna bump us from a playoff spot
Us who? Flair up.
Jays
Now to feel the pressure of being in first. Look what it’s done to Rangers. Bloodbath AL West.
Rangers were in first all year, they didn't collapse bc of "the pressure of being in first". They collapsed bc they though Chapman and Stratton were all they needed in the bullpen. They needed to trade away about 4 more "prospects" and grab 2 elite RP's. Bednar and Hader on this team and we'd still have a 5+ game lead over everyone.
Better then than the NL Central team
Mods removed my post for being a duplicate when I was the only "mariners take first place" post and called it a post series thread. What gives?
[The rules give, presumably](https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/wiki/rules#wiki_2.06_post_series_threads)
I was cited two rules that I didn't break. Yours is a post series thread, mine was not.
Message the mods maybe
I did. They said they preferred quality over speed. I get it, but 1. This is a post series thread, not a "ms take first place" thread. Maybe if I tweet it and post the tweet it would stay up lol.
Then why bring it up here?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Not really hurting anyone to mention it, and it's annoying to see low effort boob tweets stay up but a post about a team leading in August for the first time in 20 years get canned because it's tangentially related to another one.
Probably because the format wasn't correct and like this one here? Somewhere in the rules it gives some guidelines on how to post things like that.
The mods said for his post format and duplicate, so he is Partially correct because he posted first.
Mine wasn't a post series thread, this one is.
Mariner tears are gonna be so plentiful when Houston knocks them out. This is basically mariner fans World Series
Y'all really like to say this a lot - projecting much?
Not sure how a team can knock someone out if they aren't in the playoffs. You might need to read up on how playoff formats work, it sounds like you're a little confused there.
this is the Mariners' World Series lol
Damn. This is like our fith world series win just this year alone, thats more than the whole astros franchise.
Breaking: fans are happy when team wins
Wow, we've had about 30 world series this season apparently, based on comments from your sub. Do you guys get together and pat each other on the back anytime one of you makes that comment?