Very good baseball game on ESPN2 right now.

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And because college basketball is popular all around the country, whereas you don't hear anything about college baseball in most parts (i.e. NE).

Also, single-elimination playoffs/tournaments are always +EV.

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True, those are +EV, but this is not to say that multi-game playoffs are -EV. The Division Series, the Championship Series, and the World Series all pwn.

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You're right. I should not have said pro. I should have said major-league.

I go to Syracuse Skychiefs(Toronto's AAA affiliate) games during the summer, and most of the players are very very good. But I would say that at most 5 people on the roster have a chance at making it in the major leagues. By making it I mean remaining for 2 full seasons, not just being called up every now and then.

I didn't mean to construe that AAA players are bad. Heck, the Indianapolis AAA hit up Curt Schiling for lots of runs this week. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] So either they're pretty good hitters, or Curt Schilling really really sucks. I wish it was the latter, but it's probably the former.

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And because college basketball is popular all around the country, whereas you don't hear anything about college baseball in most parts (i.e. NE).

Also, single-elimination playoffs/tournaments are always +EV.

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True, those are +EV, but this is not to say that multi-game playoffs are -EV. The Division Series, the Championship Series, and the World Series all pwn.

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Of course.

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Yeah. Baseball playoffs are definitely better suited to multi-game series than single-game elimination ones, because of the starting pitching aspect, and for other reasons as well, but mostly that one imo.

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Additionally....I think college-basketball would still be popular if they used a 2-out-of-3 or 3-out-of-5 format somehow.


I blame the aluminum bat more than the non-single-elim post-season format that used.



College baseball is often played in freaking cold weather so that cuts down on the crowd potential.....and it really is kinda long and boring to watch for the most part (both live or on TV).

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I think that would be awful if college basketball were played with a bunch of series.

I much prefer the single-game elimination aspect that the NCAA tourney offers. There would be a lot fewer upsets if we went down that path. Kansas would surely get the best of Bucknell in a best of 3 or 5 series.

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I went to a UCONN vs. ND game last year at UCONN with my last school, and the pitcher from ND was really good. The game was still wicked boring though.

[MicroBob]

I was ranting obviously.
Just a pet-peeve of mine.


I was a radio play-by-play broadcaster of single-A minor-league baseball for 10 years so it's something I take a bit more personally I guess.



I think 5-7 AAA players making it as 'regular' major-leaguers is roughly correct.
But almost all of them will at least get some sort of shot. Once you make it up to AAA there is a high likelyhood of getting at least a month or so at the big-league level.


It really depends on what you count as 'regular' though.

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Yeah I had heard on here that you used to broadcast those games. That's pretty cool, getting paid to broadcast a great game like baseball. Did you do any other sports?

Also, I haven't been able to find any info on this, but maybe you know. How much do AAA players get paid, roughly? I've heard that they get paid really low salaries(like 40-50k) considering the hard work that is an entire minor league season

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I think that would be awful if college basketball were played with a bunch of series.

I much prefer the single-game elimination aspect that the NCAA tourney offers. There would be a lot fewer upsets if we went down that path. Kansas would surely get the best of Bucknell in a best of 3 or 5 series.

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Vermont would still beat Syracuse, don't worry about that.