MLB’s Wild Card Weekend is Pure Chaos: Jeff Passan Explains

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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MLB’s Wild Card weekend begins today, with a new format that seems primed to produce maximum chaos: eight teams facing off over the next three days for the right to advance to the Divisional round. And while we may still have questions about how this is all going to work, Jeff Passan helps us make sense of everything, and why the biggest winners might be the underdogs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Jeff pass and I just want to start here by being very open and honest about just I
0:04.7	would say the absolutely too faced cruelty that is the baseball postseason, right?
0:11.6	I mean, no other sport does this to people.
0:14.1	Nobody forces you to play 162 games and then acts like such an unforgivingly different
0:20.4	person as soon as the playoff start.
0:22.5	Yeah, it's like in baseball, you need to be Elliott, Kipchog and you saying, Bull, you
0:30.9	need to be able to run a marathon better than anyone and then sprint just as well.
0:41.8	It doesn't matter how great you are from April to September, if you fall on your face in
0:49.8	October.
0:53.0	No longer is the controlled randomness of the regular season, a good thing necessarily
1:00.1	because you can backdoor your way into the playoffs and it does not matter if you want 110
1:06.4	games or 85 games.
1:08.7	All you got to do is get on a heater and get to the end of October and you may end up
1:15.4	with some sparkling gemstones on your ring finger.
1:20.7	This idea that the slog of the baseball regular season is romantic, I get it.
1:27.7	I appreciate it.
1:29.1	But what does it seed to once October comes pure chaos?
1:42.9	If you have no idea what is about to happen in these baseball playoffs, maybe not least
1:47.7	because you just hibernated through the entirety of this marathon regular season, I have
1:52.7	great news for you.
1:54.3	You are absolutely not alone.
1:57.3	In fact, October chaos isn't just a ladder.
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