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10-28-2006, 12:32 AM
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Re: Changes to baseball
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in what sport is it easiest to take a true .500 team and win the world series? baseball, by far. [/ QUOTE ] Well duh, since no other sports play in the world series. Sorry, had to be done. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] I think that hockey is probably the easiest to have a crummy team take the title. 16 teams make the playoffs (some of which will be barely at .500) and you can ride a hot goalie all the way to the Cup. 
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#22
10-28-2006, 01:06 AM
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Re: Changes to baseball
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[ QUOTE ] Can anyone explain why the league has a 16-team NL and 14-team AL? If I'm not mistaken, it has to do with the scheduling, correct? The way I see it, wouldn't it be easier to have 6 5-team divisions and play X games vs division opponents and 2/3-1/2X games against non-division opponents and eliminate the wild card? [/ QUOTE ] You have to have an even number of teams in each league so each team can play every day. [/ QUOTE ] I feel pretty stupid now. Couldn't this be solved by having scheduled double headers?
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#25
10-28-2006, 02:05 AM
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Re: Changes to baseball
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Can anyone explain why the league has a 16-team NL and 14-team AL? If I'm not mistaken, it has to do with the scheduling, correct? The way I see it, wouldn't it be easier to have 6 5-team divisions and play X games vs division opponents and 2/3-1/2X games against non-division opponents and eliminate the wild card? [/ QUOTE ] If you had 2 15 team leagues, there would be an interleague game every day. Most fans, including myself, think 18 interleague games like they have now is too much anyway
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#26
10-28-2006, 02:08 AM
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Re: Changes to baseball
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I would get rid of the DH in the AL. [/ QUOTE ]
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#27
10-28-2006, 02:22 AM
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[ QUOTE ] I would get rid of the DH in the AL. [/ QUOTE ] [/ QUOTE ]
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#28
10-28-2006, 02:28 AM
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Re: Changes to baseball
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I would add the DH to the NL. [/ QUOTE ] I would either add the DH to the NL or take it away from the AL (I personally would add it to the NL though). Baseball is the only sport that has different rules within its major league, and that just seems silly to me. And Mets/Fins, I'm not sure you can say most fans dont like interleague play. I, for one, like it and think they should play more of it. There are plenty of good geographic rivalries that dont get enough play that I think would really add something to the game. They play 162 games for goodness sake, why cant the Angels and Dodgers or the Mets and the Yankees play more than 6 games a year?
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#29
10-28-2006, 03:17 AM
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Re: Changes to baseball
Maybe it should be set up so that Yankees receive an automatic entry into the playoffs every year and every series ends as soon as the Yankees have one more win than their opponents.
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#30
10-28-2006, 04:22 AM
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Re: Changes to baseball
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I'd rather it be exciting then the best team winning every year [/ QUOTE ] There's exciting, and then there's the prospect of having a crummy series because you have inferior teams competing for the title (in a cold and rainy environment...). If the MLB post-season could be more on the level of football's we'd have it perfect. The Super Bowl almost always has the best team from at least one conference, and sometimes a great team from the wild card spot ('05 Steelers, '00 Ravens) can win it all. Because at this point we're approaching NBA levels of wasted time, where they spend a month eliminating the 12 teams we know they're going to eliminate anyway. As it stands we're spending April to October establishing who the best teams are, then we pick 8 teams - some of them who occassionally *haven't* established themselves as one of the best teams are - and essentially roll dice to see who becomes champion. It's anti-climactic and tragic to have such an undefinitive post-season to the most definitive season in sports.
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