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ORIGINAL: Mr. Ed
NL is crazy
3 teams in the Central with 80 or more wins. PITT now within 4 1/2 of the Cardinals, who have 88 wins.
Cubs at 80 wins NINE game Wild Card lead for the last spot.
Just read an awesome article by CJ Nitkowski hi-lighting this problem. One of those three teams won't make it past the one game playoff, and that's a joke. This format is awful. The best teams don't make the playoffs. He talked about the 2012 Tigers had the 7th best record in the AL, but won a
bad division. He proposes eliminating divisions. I fully 100% agree.
Eliminate divisions. Top four teams from each league make playoffs. Balance the schedule so every team plays the same schedule. Eliminating interleage would add more intrigue to the World series and reignite the AL/NL rivalry. Who could be against this? Shouldn't we all want the best teams making the playoffs? The Twins embarassed themselves year after
year in the playoffs, while other teams sitting at home would have been far more competitive than our low talent scrappy bunch.
MLB would be against it.
Divisions add races and interest and excitement. If you eliminate them, races don't carry as much weight anymore.
I LOVE a one game playoff for wild cards. If you don't want to have your season hinge on one game. Win your division.
I think the one game playoff is a fraud. An entire 162 game season should not come down to one game.
I just think it's wrong the best teams don't make the playoffs. Like I said, the 2012 Tigers had the 7th best record in the AL, in addition to playing in a weaker division + unbalanced schedule = weaker schedule than teams in other divisions had. Same scenario with most of Gardy's division winners. TAINTED. It's a shame that money rules.
I remember A-Rod made a controversial comment one of those years saying his Texas team that wasn't making the playoffs was better than the Twins. We all bristled, but he was right.
The NFL doesn't get it either. That a 7-9 division winner can host a playoff game against a 12-4 team is nothing short of criminal. Although I was pretty tickled to see my most hated team, the Saints, get beat that year.
Any three game series that goes all three games comes down to one game.
Any five game series that goes all five, comes down to one game.
Any seven game series that goes all seven comes down to one game.
The postseason in baseball is already far too long. Extending it so that two teams that didn't win their divisions can have a three game series or more...is preposterous. Not to mention the disadvantage of all the division winners having to sit out for a week waiting for a wild card round.
A one game playoff also makes winning your division all that much more important.
The point of the two wild card teams it to get the best records of non division winning teams into the playoffs. If they want to play on they have to win.
Think of it as a game 7 in the first game.
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