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I'm afraid we got treated to a few O's pitchers that weren't ready for prime time. Throw strikes or find another job. -- Al
Ain't that the truth. Bad couple of days in Md. At least the USNA won. -- Al
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"Five teams won 92 or more games during the regular season (ATL, TB, MIL, LAD, BAL)Those teams are 0-7 in the postseason so far. All seven losses were at home."
Go ahead and spin this into a "This is good for the game" argument.
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I don’t have to spin it. We have a playoff system. You don’t have to like it but that’s the format and it will be around through the 2026 season.
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No argument from me, the last regular season series against Boston we won the East on game 2 then played like **** the next 2 games then had a week lay off after that, Texas comes in hot and here we are down 2-0...we had been in a dog fight with the AL East teams since July now 3 months after a battle every day we win and get a week's vacation!!! Lucky us
no doubt Texas is the better team, no excuses, but at this point I wish we had been a wildcard.
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Good.
Because I don't like it.
If nothing else, reseed the teams after the first round, O's would get the Twins, Astros play the Rangers, Atlanta gets Arizona, Dodgers get the Phillies.
The way the underdogs are playing, looks like none of that would matter anyway.
As Sammy said, the system is unfair as the 4 best teams sit around for a week and get rusty.
Whatever, no dog in the fight for me, it is what it is.
I'm sure after 2026 they'll tinker with the format.
And make it worse.
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People tend to complain about a system after they don’t do well under it. You never hear people complain when it’s the reverse. I wonder why that is?
Umm..........no.
The Red Sox last made the playoffs in 2021 as the top wildcard team, beat the Gashouse Gorillas in a one game play in game, got the top seeded Rays........and beat them to advance to the ALCS.
So this new broken toilet of a system has not had a negative impact on the team I root for.
As has been said in the thread already, this format is making the 162 game season somewhat meaningless if teams are going to get hot the last month of the season, sneak in and then make noise.
The Rangers blew the division the last weekend of the season, their bats went cold and they lost two out of three to Seattle, were the lowest seeded team...........and got hot, beat the 99 win Rays and are now one win away from the ALCS.
Great system; hey it works for them.
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A long 162-game season can't be justified if the division winners can then be knocked out in a short series in which the lesser talented team throws in the kitchen sink. The regular season is a marathon. Deeper and more talented teams will run away with the division. The playoffs are then a sprint. So lesser teams with a couple of great pitchers can shorten the lineup and minimize the overall talent advantage. Then is it just a matter of a couple of lucky breaks to decide the outcome of a series. The entire format is predicated on greed. An unnecessarily long season, followed by playoffs that include too many teams. The owners will never change that but the season should be reduced to no more than 130 games since it is almost meaningless or the playoffs should only include the division winners. No team has gone down this road longer than the Dodgers. They win 100 games every season, win the division, then get rolled by a less talented team in the playoffs.
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They will never go to a 130 game season; too much income lost; seasons prior to 1960 were 154 games.
In addition, they will never go back to division winners and how could they since there are three divisions, which requires a WC, which was the situation until a few years ago.
If you want to go back to division winners that would mean four divisions but that would require a 16th team in each league since you can’t have a division made up of only three teams. However, I don’t see that as likely. The NFL has four teams in each of the four divisions in each conference and they still use WCs.
In addition, they will never go back to division winners and how could they since there are three divisions, which requires a WC, which was the situation until a few years ago.
If you want to go back to division winners that would mean four divisions but that would require a 16th team in each league since you can’t have a division made up of only three teams. However, I don’t see that as likely. The NFL has four teams in each of the four divisions in each conference and they still use WCs.
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People tend to complain about a system after they don’t do well under it. You never hear people complain when it’s the reverse. I wonder why that is?
I didn't complain as I was happy we won the East, but as soon as I realized we were going to be off for basically a week I had my own misgivings, hoping the long week off wouldn't hurt, can't say?? We won our Series against Texas this year but now getting our *** handed to us.
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Perhaps if the Braves are knocked out two years in a row they will think about doing something because they have been baseball’s best team the last two years and a team fans want to see. However, I wouldn’t anticipate them doing anything should this happen.
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2 series against Rangers this year we lost 2-1 at yours in April and then beat you 2-1 in May in Arlington . Outscored you 24-19 over the 6 games .
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I stand corrected,.
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MLB baseball should to go the 130-game schedule, 7-inning game, and drop one team from each division. Colorado, Milwaukee, Miami, Seattle, KC, and Toronto get the axe. More talent among the existing teams. Faster games and a shorter season. The division winners are spotted a 1-0 series advantage to make the long regular season worth something and avoid the fluke elimination.
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This is it in a nutshell; all comes down to money............more games means more money, more playoff teams means more playoff games, more money.
Money, money, money.
And you are correct, they will never change anything back to the way it used to be, not happening.
I remember when I was beginning to understand sports as I grew older and hockey struck me as comical; an 82 game season where at the time, 16 of the 21 teams made the playoffs.
They played a best of 3 opening round; so, you played 82 games to eliminate 5 teams, then 3 more to eliminate 8.
Right then and there I realized how stupid the whole process was, made less than zero sense.
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I don't see them going to 130 game season. Besides the lost income baseball is a statistics oriented game and you take the excitement Aaron Judge caused last year getting 62 homers which would have been 51 in a 130 game season or Acuna this year getting 40+ homers and 70 stolen bases. Wouldn't happen in a 130 game season. Baseball is a game of traditions and fewer games would hurt baseball. I don't like the division system, haven't since they started it. But if you are going to have it, just 1 WC team. 4 teams, semi 3 game series and finals 5 game series. Only the WS should be 7 games.
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