Fair enough ...
Watching last night's Tampa Bay-Texas game, I was reminded that it was NOT a playoff game, but was game 163 of the regular season. That's not just semantics. It was played under regular season rules (with one exception) -- most importantly both teams had a roster of 37 players.
Starting tonight, it must be cut to 25 players, although the roster can be revamped at the end of each series. That's a major difference.
Looking forward to the sudden-death Cincinnati at Pittsburgh game -- Cueto vs. Liriano -- tonight.
PS There was one difference in last night's game -- they used six umps, instead of the regular season norm of four. Amazingly, that led to what could have been one of the great controversies of all times. Tampa was leading 4-2 in the seventh with the bases loaded and two outs when the batter hit a soft liner to short center. The Texas CFer made a diving stab for it, but the ball clearly bounced into his glove. Yet, the LF ump, who shouldn't have been there, called the catch good and robbed Tampa of at least two runs. If Texas had rallied to win, that would be a bigger blown call that last year's infield fly call in the Braves' wild card game.