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For those of you that might have crawled from under a rock or maybe stranded on Gabon, then this may come as a shock. For the second year in a row, we need a sudden death playoff to determine one of the teams going to the playoffs. This is only the 8th time that it has ever happened, so it is not like it is a regular occurrence. To me it is just another way to sale some more tickets. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I am not a fan of these types of playoffs.However, if this game is like any of the others that were played for the same reason, it will be awesome.

I believe that they should play the 162 games out of the year and whatever the head to head is, that will be the deciding factor. If for some reason, there was a tie with the head to head, then and only then should this be used. This would cut out the need for the extra games to decide who the division champion is. All in all, we have to go through the game one more time.

Tonight’s ball game will pit the Chicago White Sox against the Minnesota Twins . It is set to start at 6:37 CT and will be aired on MLB.com and TBS. It will be play in Chicago. The starting pitchers will be John Danks for the White Sox going against Nick Blackburn for the Twins. Danks is 11-9 on the season while Blackburn is 11-10 this season. Danks is more of a strike out pitcher than is Blackburn, but Blackburn has 18 fewer walks than does Danks while both threw 187 total innings each this season. Danks has given up less hits, less homeruns, and less runs to finish .67 better in ERA than Blackburn. As for base runners, Blackburn only had 2 stolen bases against him all year while Danks gave up 23 of them.

Question is, will you be watching?

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