The first day of the 2020 playoffs did not go very well for my casual rooting interests. Three of the four teams whose victories I would have preferred instead lost and could be eliminated today. The best-of-three series is an ice-cold invention. We can only hope that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred’s antipathy towards baseball does not extend into making this expanded postseason stuff a permanent change.
Today, everybody is in the pool. There are sixteen playoff teams and they all play today. Eight games is a lot! There’s a game starting every hour from noon Eastern to 5pm, with prime time games starting at 7 and 10.