The Windup: A show about Baseball · The Athletic
The Roundtable | Wild Card Race Chaos
September 15, 2025·46 min·4 clips
Sam Miller compares fading playoff enthusiasm to degrading a tape, calling it the roundtable's best analogy.
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A sharp look at streaks, momentum, and the playoff race.
The Roundtable opens with a playoff-race question about streakiness and settles in with Grant Brisbane and Sam Miller as they sort out how much momentum really survives once games after wins are separated from games after losses.
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