This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! Go to a baseball game today if you can. This is my favorite part of the MLB postseason: the Wild Card round. Congrats for making it, teams who’ve just completed a 162-game slog! If you lose in your 163rd game, you’re already dangling over a cliff. It’s the beauty of the three-game series, not as cheap as the one-game Wild Card of years past, but still full of tension. We had a great first day of playoff baseball yesterday. Four...
This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox.This is my favorite part of the MLB postseason: the Wild Card round. Congrats for making it, teams who’ve just completed a 162-game slog! If you lose in your 163rd game, you’re already dangling over a cliff. It’s the beauty of the three-game series, not as cheap as the one-game Wild Card of years past, but still full of tension.
That anonymity is coming to an end, thanks to Victor Wembanyama. The Spurs might win around 30 games, but there will be plenty more eyes this year. So hey, maybe remember the name.Iowa quarterback Cade McNamara will miss the rest of the season after injuring his ACL over the weekend, Hawkeyes coach Kirk Ferentzin recent memory — in which Iowa has to average 25 points per game or offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz’s contract terminates — will earn even more scrutiny.
Thus it’s not exactly earth-shattering news when the stadium is not even half full for a playoff game. And yet I cannot stop focusing on it. This is a playoff game for a team that nearly won 100 games. A team with a .586 winning percentage over the last six years, plus a World Series trip. Isn’t sustained success supposed to lead to a passionate fan base? The Rays drew 19,704 yesterday,: It’s not really alarming, alas.
The Rangers and Rays play today at 3 p.m. ET. Let’s hope more people watch a 99-win team play, possibly for the last time.Get all-access to exclusive stories. Subscribe to The Athletic for in-depth coverage of your favorite players, teams, leagues and clubs. Try a week on us.is a staff writer for The Athletic's daily newsletter. Before joining The Athletic, he covered the Phillies for The News-Journal and worked as a content strategist for various industries. He graduated from LSU, where he worked for The Daily Reveille.
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