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1. Gambling Rent Czar Posted: September 10, 2008 at 05:13 AM (#2935347)I am starting to like this unbalanced schedule more and more ..
The NL Central is pretty clearly the best division in the NL. The NL West is pretty clearly the worst, and their 1st place team's record would be good for 5th in the Central.
The unbalanced schedules irritate me. One league, all teams play each other an equal number of times and the fan is (nearly) guaranteed that the 4 best teams make the playoffs.
Is it your belief that Pittsburgh and Cincinnati are worse than Washington and Atlanta? And that the Mets/Philly are better than the Cubs/Brewers/Cards?
I'm not seeing it.
Unless you're talking about the NL West team, but that's not really unbalanced schedules, that's divisional play which is never going away, and I think would be bad for the sport if it did. Nobody cares about the NBA race to the playoffs and homecourt advantage actually makes somewhat of a difference there.
Deserving - either of Philly/NY or Mil/Stl/Houston. All of these teams likely will have a better record than the NL West winner but one of them will miss the playoffs.
If the playoffs started today, the Dodgers with, what the 6th best record, make the playoffs. That is a mockery and I hope Selig pays for allowing such a situation.
And we would avoid travesties such as LA or Arizona in the playoffs.
I want to see the best teams play the best teams when it matters most. 3 divisions prevents this from happening.
I added an edit after realizing that's probably what you're talking about.
But your anger is misplaced. "Undeserving" teams making the playoffs isn't a Seligula creation. It's been going on since '69.
Especially coming from a fan of by far the worst team in that suckass division out west.
There were a lot of comments that they weren't particularly good, which they weren't.
they didn't see first place until the 2nd to last weekend of the year, and their largest lead of the season was 1.5 games...
on August 5 they were 11.5 games behind the Cardinals, who swept them in a doubleheader that day...
the Cardinals would go just 21-30 the rest of the way while the Mets would go 34-19.
[Edit: I'm talkin bout 1973]
Especially coming from a fan of by far the worst team in that suckass division out west.
The line wasn't a crack, and his reasoning behind why he likes it is pretty sound. He likes that if a team goes on a nice run down the stretch, it can make up a lot of ground because it's playing against the teams being pursued. That his team sucks ass in the most suckassingest division is immaterial to his point.
Fifteen teams in each league would require at least one interleague series be scheduled for every game day.
even better, both leagues should have the same number of teams.
my suggestion, as always, is to add a team in brooklyn and a team west of the mississippi somewhere, conflate all the teams into ONE major league, and create 8 4-team divisions.
then you make the mississippi the dividing line. everybody plays everybody else on their side of the miss. an equal number of times, then crosses to do a home and home with everybody else. kinda like the NBA.
the sked balances and you can arrange it so that bos-ny, nym-brook, stl-chi, sf-LA, etc. all play each other equal numbers of times.
THEN you'd see the best teams making the playoffs.
Sounds like what you want is an American Premier League, featuring the top 15 teams in baseball, with the Pirates, Reds, Orioles, etc. playing one level lower in the Irn-Bru Baseball Championship Series. I think that would be good if it allowed for expansion to happen pretty easily.
Except in years where the better teams are mostly on one side or the other of the Mississippi. Then you'd end up with a situation like last year in the NBA - where the 9th best team in the west was likely better than the third place team in the east.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd0kDxP04eI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eGCsEQ15L4
I don't mind seeing the Pirates and Reds and others at time, but unless it's the Cubs, there really isn't any team I want to see my team face 15 times a year. And I miss our old rivalry with the Mets and Dodgers. I just think more variety is a better way to go.
Of course I'm a huge fan of interleague play so my opinion has to be wrong on this subject. (heck I actually think 3 5 team division per league is a great idea, as it would actually add to the aura of interleague play, as it stands now, when there is interleague going on, the only team you hear about is the Yankees and whoever they play. With continual interleague going on year round occassionally ESPN will acknowledge other cool matchups. Of course there is the problem with the final month of the season, where interleague could affect a pennant race, but that is a minor issue to be honest.)
It doesn't have to be.
But it is. ;)
Well, with CC on the mound it's 3-1 Reds after six innings as Jerry Hairston cranks a 3-run homer.
The Crew hasn't been able to touch the Reds bullpen during this series. If Milwaukee loses today they will have finished a 10 game homestand at 2-8 with both victories by one run. Overall they have been outscored by a 2:1 ratio.
I don't know if anyone caught Prince Fielder's comments after last night's game but they were along the lines of "Hey, whatever happens, happens. It just is. All we can do is play." (That's a paraphrase. For some reason I couldn't find last night's game wrap on MLB)
But it is. ;)
I just like it (although I hate having to play KC every year.
I have no idea, other than tradition, why it's hated. If you accept the balanced schedule, then there should be no issue with interleague play (although I think every team in the same division should play the same opponents.)
well, i didn't say every one of the best teams. there will always be unequal distribution of quality, but it won't be as magnified by the playoff format as it is now.
btw, i know this is a dumb question, but i'm too lazy to look it up: has everybody played everybody else in interleague now?
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