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As the regular season comes to an end, most of the baseball world is focused on the teams headed to October. But this episode is for everyone else: the teams that were eliminated weeks ago and still showed up to the ballpark every single day.

In this episode, we’re talking about:

• What it means to keep playing after postseason hopes are gone
• Why an eliminated team can still have plenty to play for
• The strange vulnerability of failing publicly and having to keep performing
• Why fans keep watching even when their team can’t make the playoffs
• The players, families, traditions, and communities that give “meaningless” games meaning
• Why being eliminated from one version of the future doesn’t mean your season is over
• Learning to ask “What is still worth showing up for?” instead of pretending disappointment doesn’t hurt
• And, because I couldn’t resist, a little postseason standings check before the weekend

Sometimes the dream doesn’t end. It just stops looking the way you thought it would.

At the end of the day, we show up anyway.

For the love of the game ~

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The final week of the regular season is here, and the 2026 postseason picture is still changing every day!

In this episode, I break down the clinching scenarios, active magic numbers, and elimination numbers shaping the final few games before October baseball begins!!!!

• Learn the difference between a magic number and an elimination number (also known as a tragic number)
• See which teams have already clinched a division or playoff berth
• Follow the Brewers’ race for the No. 1 seed and a first-round bye
• Get caught up on the AL Central battle between the Guardians and White Sox
• Find out why the Orioles’ postseason hopes are hanging by a thread
• Watch the Cubs, Padres, Phillies, Diamondbacks, Blue Jays, Rays, Yankees, and more as the Wild Card picture takes shape
• Preview the pivotal series that could decide who plays in October (and who goes home)

Only 12 of MLB’s 30 teams make the postseason. This is the week that tells us who they’ll be!

Who are you rooting for to make the World Series?

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Hey babes!

We've spent all season talking about division leaders, Wild Card races, clinching scenarios and tiebreakers. But what actually happens once a team makes the postseason?

In this Tiny Baseball Lesson, we're putting the entire MLB playoff picture together from start to finish ~

We're breaking down:

• How 12 teams qualify for the postseason
• Division winners vs. Wild Card teams
• What playoff seeds actually mean
• Why the top two seeds get a first-round bye
• How the Wild Card Series works
• The ALDS and NLDS
• The ALCS and NLCS
• How home-field advantage changes between rounds
• How a team finally reaches the World Series
• Why regular-season tiebreakers suddenly matter so much in September

Plus, we walk through the postseason picture as it stands on September 14 and see what the matchups would look like if the playoffs started today.

The easiest way to remember it?

12 teams → Wild Card Series → Division Series → Championship Series → World Series.

Six months and 162 games have been building toward this. Now it's almost time to see how the season ends!!

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