Baseball and the wildcard - Page 4

Soul Daddy · #31 08-20-2005, 05:55 PM

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1) Realign into 6 divisions of 5 teams.

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This would be a logistical nightmare.

jstnrgrs · #32 08-20-2005, 06:37 PM

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1) Realign into 6 divisions of 5 teams.

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This would be a logistical nightmare.

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If we just get rid of the silly idea that interleauge play must be reserved for a particular month, then this would be no problem. This is the system that the NFL used untill 1999, and it works just fine.

BeatOnRiver · #33 08-20-2005, 06:51 PM

2)- worst. idea. ever.

Jack of Arcades · #34 08-20-2005, 09:31 PM

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Wildcard + imbalanced schedule = fuckng awful.

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[quoteInterleague = good for baseball

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Aside from a few series, not really.

It ain't just interleague, but the weighted schedule vs your division. Houston gets to play four teams under .500... I don't know how many times, exactly, but they get to play cincy a helluva lot more than Philly does.

Jack of Arcades · #35 08-20-2005, 09:34 PM

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1) Realign into 6 divisions of 5 teams.

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This would be a logistical nightmare.

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If we just get rid of the silly idea that interleauge play must be reserved for a particular month, then this would be no problem. This is the system that the NFL used untill 1999, and it works just fine.

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The problem is, then, that nobody will give a [censored] about interleague games when they don't take place on summer weekends and haven't been hyped the [censored] out of.

Interleague play = the suck.

Jack of Arcades · #36 08-20-2005, 09:43 PM

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As for the imbalance in the wild card race, I say so what. A team that misses out on the wild card for any reason has nothing to complain about. If they wanted to make the post-season, they should have won their division.

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What the [censored]? Are you on stupid pills? If you're gonna have a wild card to determine the best four teams or whatever, why are you going to make it more of a sham than it already is?

How about this?

Realign into 4 divisions. 7x2 in the AL, 8x2 in the NL. Top 2 in the division make the playoffs.

No interleague. Play an imbalanced schedule if you want, it doesn't matter to me, because there's no wild card.

battschr · #37 08-20-2005, 09:58 PM

How about we keep the divisions and wildcard as is, get rid of interleague play altogether, and play a balanced schedule. Why is this so hard?

Jack of Arcades · #38 08-20-2005, 10:05 PM

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How about we keep the divisions and wildcard as is, get rid of interleague play altogether, and play a balanced schedule. Why is this so hard?

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Because we were making silly suggestions, so I joined in.

battschr · #39 08-20-2005, 11:04 PM

Fair enough. I didn't mean that toward you, I just hate interleague play and an unbalanced schedule.

billyjex · #40 08-20-2005, 11:23 PM

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If you can't win your division, you shouldn't be in the playoffs.

and San Diego should? What about the Red Sox the past two years? Clearly one of the best 6 teams in baseball.

Baseballs pre wild card format was awful.

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abso freakin lutely. as a Giants fan I had to suffer through one last year of the old format -- when the Giants won 103 games and had the second best record. to the Braves, in their same division with 104 wins AND THE GIANTS DIDN'T MAKE THE PLAYOFFS.