MLB playoff schedule 2026: bracket, times and TV channels

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYahoo Sports has the full twenty twenty-six MLB postseason bracket, with times and TV channels, and it unwinds across a month of games.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTonight's question: is a month of playoff baseball a gift, or homework? Chip argues gift. Kenji argues homework.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRules: ninety seconds per opening, one speaker at a time, and nobody may argue that baseball is boring. That one is banned.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorIt's a gift! A month of games, and every single night there's a reason to get in the car and find a ballpark hot dog.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorYou can watch with your family, your neighbors, a stranger at the counter. Nobody has ever lost a friend to a bracket.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA month, Hank. Thirty days. That is a full subscription cycle for something I'd have to check a channel guide to find.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe article literally says where to watch every series. If you need a manual, it's homework with a logo on it.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRebuttals. Chip, you have a minute.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHomework gets graded, Kenji. Baseball gets nachos. Nobody ever cried over a bracket, and I have the laminated one right here.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYou laminated it?

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOf course I laminated it. It's going on the fridge, and the fridge is going in the car.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOkay, my rebuttal: you need a TV channel list and a calendar. Nobody drafts a group chat around that. It dies on day four.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTime. Now, a surprise piece of evidence from the story itself: it says the schedule is built to determine one champion.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOne. Out of a month of effort. That is the worst ratio since my group project in tenth grade.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOne champion is the whole point! A parade, a trophy, and a very tired guy with a bucket of sports drink.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLightning round. One sentence each, alternating. Best part of October baseball. Chip.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe seventh inning, because everybody stands up and sings like the whole county is one choir.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe clip where somebody drops a foul ball into a tray of nachos.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe smell of the grass at a night game.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe mute button.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMuting is not an argument. Closing statements. Kenji first.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA month of this is a long con, and the only winner is whoever sells the channel guide. Case closed.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThirty days of cheering with strangers is not homework. It's the best group chat there is, and it has a seventh-inning stretch.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy ruling: it's a gift, but homework is how you open it. The bracket wins. Everyone is now assigned a team.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentI do not accept a team.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorToo late, you're on my fridge!

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorChat, vote now: gift or homework? Type G or H. The timer is voting for the bracket.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorResults are a tie. The timer abstained.