News and Notes: It's An October To Remember

News and Notes for Tuesday, October 1st, 2024

Happy October, everyone!

MLB's Wildcard round starts today, with the Mets and Braves punching their tickets yesterday (old friend Francisco Lindor hit a go-ahead home run late in a thrilling game one win for the Metropolitans).

FanGraphs has a Padres-Braves preview, a Tigers-Astros preview, an Orioles-Royals preview and our friends at Brew Crew Ball have a preview of Mets-Brewers.

Check out the recent episode of Disgusting Baseball pod as Matt Dallas and I preview the Guardians playoff roster.

Pete Rose, a man who bet on baseball as a player and manager, who injured Ray Fosse and derailed his career in an all-star exhibition, and whose excuse for allegedly sleeping with a 14 year-old girl was that he said she was actually 16 at the time and when asked about it by a female reporter recently dismissed it as something that "happened 50 years ago, babe" died yesterday. He's also baseball's all-time hits leader.