Yeah, yeah, yeah. Twelve (12) teams are still reasonably alive in the major league baseball playoff hunt. That does not include the Nationals, or anyone other than the Padres in the NL West. The Nats have to jump over too many teams, and the Padres can't blow their lead to the rest of those slugs in their division, and that's ... (Full article: 1390 words)

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