Whoo-hoo, .500 and you are in!! Mlb becomes the Nba. For the love of... What is happening to my first love...
Whoo-hoo, .500 and you are in!! Mlb becomes the Nba. For the love of... What is happening to my first love...
True on both counts, y'all know as well as I do all these changes will stay.
I’m worried about that too. And with likely expansion will increase the incentive to do this even further.
I also think it’s funny how Manfred and the owners said a more than 60 game regular season was unfeasible without a massive pay cut from the players, yet we can now play a max total of 66 postseason games on top of that with no expectations of fans being back.
jpx7 (07-24-2020)
jpx7 (07-24-2020)
But, in 60 games we don't know if a 1-seed actually deserves it or not, so I don't see a problem with it for this weird season.
weso1 (07-25-2020)
jpx7 (07-24-2020)
Yeah i think it's a little unfair as well that one of the top 2 seeds could get bounced by a lower seed. Given how weird baseball is, wouldnt be surprising if a lower seed won 2 of 3 games vs a top seed.
But if this is only for this year, i guess whatever. It does take the pressure off a bad start by the Braves and not being in a big hole that wouldnt be able to get out of. Anywhere from 27-30 wins is probably a lock for the playoffs, maybe even lower.
jpx7 (07-24-2020)
Its gonna make the regular season way less interesting. Any solid team should make it now. And there is literally no advantage of being a top side in playoffs
jpx7 (07-24-2020)
It absolutely 100% should not stick around after this year, and I do fear it will, but I think it was necessary for this weird-ass season. Even ignoring for a moment that 60 games is not enough to overcome luck effects in baseball, with teams only playing teams in their geographical lineup (i.e., a team in the NL or AL East will only play teams in the NL and AL East), it's entirely possible that a 25-35 team from the East or West will legitimately be a better team than a 40-20 team in one of the Centrals but who had to play a far tougher schedule.
jpx7 (07-24-2020)
Valid points all.
Anyone look at the San Francisco Giants' starting line-up? Outside of Crawford and Flores, it's a collection of guys on their last legs and glorified Triple-A players.
clvclv (07-25-2020)