MLB Playoffs

#101
#101
Vercingetorix said:
Okay then, if "just win the game" is a good argument in favor of a shorter series, then why play five? Why not best of three? Or better yet, just one game like the divisional playoff?
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quit trying to put words in my mouth. You know what I meant. All you have to do is win. You have a pitching staff for a reason. If you can't win 3 out 5, I don't see how winning 4 out of 7 becomes so much easier. The Cubs and Brewers both had their chances to win their games and blew it. The Cubs could play a best of 17 series and the Dodgers are still going to beat them.
 
#102
#102
I'm not interested in the Cubs or the Brewers; I'm interested in the point in general. The longer the series, the more legitimate a test it is -- particularly in a sport in which it's routine for Team A to beat Team B by 4 or 5 runs one day, and then turn around and lose by 4 or 5 runs the next night. The dynamics of a seven-game series are completely different than a five-gamer. How can you have any real epic back-and-forth, legendary series when Game 2 is always do or die for one team?

I just don't get why, if you're going to have the wild card and an extra round of playoffs, you wouldn't treat the first round the same as the rest of it. It's like having games in the first round of the NCAA tournament be only 20 minutes long or something.
 
#103
#103
the cubs and brewers are just the current latest examples of 5 game series screwups. It appears the White Sox are about to join them. Again, just play fundamental baseball. Don't give extra outs, don't put people on base for free and make sure your offense is capable of putting a few runs on the board. It's a five game series, do what you've done all year and walk away to play another day.
 
#104
#104
If anything, the 5 game set makes the Divisional Series more exciting because there's a good chance you're coming off a tight race to get into the playoffs and you have to figure out your best pitching scenarios.
 
#105
#105
I've also decided that I'm going to go back and demand rematches in all the Little League, travel ball, Babe Ruth and school tournaments I attended that were double elimination. Obviously we lost those tourneys because we didn't get to play seven games. Same can be said for my basketball tournaments
 
#106
#106
Apparently you mistake me for someone complaining about the results. It's not that at all. I just think that:

A) aesthetically speaking, having a five-game series sandwiched in between the marathon regular season and the longer seven-game series in the later rounds seems anticlimactic, herky-jerky, and weird; and

B) from a competition standpoint, it seems odd to play one round of the tournament under different rules than all the others.

That's it. If you don't agree, no problem. No need to snark about it.
 
#107
#107
that last comment was 99% a joke. Maybe it is a marathon season, but it's still 3 game series, with an occasional 4 gamer mixed in there. I don't see how a 5 game series is in any form anticlimactic. It makes games one and two so much more enjoyable to watch and I would think that it traps more people into watching the playoffs in their entirety. I can't say that for sure, because I'm going to be watching either way.
 
#108
#108
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#109
#109
volfanbill said:
the cubs and brewers are just the current latest examples of 5 game series screwups. It appears the White Sox are about to join them. Again, just play fundamental baseball. Don't give extra outs, don't put people on base for free and make sure your offense is capable of putting a few runs on the board. It's a five game series, do what you've done all year and walk away to play another day.
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Stop it,your depressing me big time

:)
 
#110
#110
volfanbill said:
that last comment was 99% a joke. Maybe it is a marathon season, but it's still 3 game series, with an occasional 4 gamer mixed in there. I don't see how a 5 game series is in any form anticlimactic. It makes games one and two so much more enjoyable to watch and I would think that it traps more people into watching the playoffs in their entirety. I can't say that for sure, because I'm going to be watching either way.
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It feels anticlimactic to me because of the pacing of it. Some of these races take the entire month of September to develop. Back and forth, scoreboard watching the whole time, and it comes down to the very last weekend of a six month season. One team wins. They take one day off, and then they play Game 1. This being baseball, there's about a 50-50 chance they lose. Then the storyline the very next day is MUST WIN GAME! CAN'T GO DOWN 2-0! etc. Having Game 2 be the swing game instead of Game 4 makes it feel like the series is being decided before as a fan I've even gotten to settle into my seat.

It just seems an abrupt ending to a month-long race, IMO. It would be one thing if that's just the way it is. But then they turn around the next two rounds and play a relatively leisurely seven-game series. Having just that one round be a sprint feels jarring to me.
 
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#117
#117
As I mentioned in another thread, the Angels being able to coast all through September and essentially since July has cost them more than playing the BoSox. Peter Gammons is my favorite reporter in any sport, but he is dead wrong when he says momentum is your next day's pitcher.
 
#118
#118
volfanbill said:
As I mentioned in another thread, the Angels being able to coast all through September and essentially since July has cost them more than playing the BoSox. Peter Gammons is my favorite reporter in any sport, but he is dead wrong when he says momentum is your next day's pitcher.
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So true.
 
#119
#119
I do like Harold Reynolds as a commentator. Mainly because you can tell he knows the game from a player's perspective.
 
#121
#121
Why yes, I'd love 3 runs after Saunders gets a red hot Ellsbury to pop "out"
 
#122
#122
This game just won't end...

I hate both teams, but I some point I just want someone to get a run so I can go to bed.
 
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