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  1. notin
    There’s been parity in baseball for decades. Roughly every team finishes winning between 40% and 60% of their games, and the only differences But the stupidest myth in sports is the “East Coast Bias”, largely spread by midwestern and west coast fans who watch ESPN present those other teams first. How dare they! Anyone who grew up on the East Coast trying to stay up and watch Monday Night Football often go well past midnight and then try to make it to school or work the next day knows how ridiculous that notion is….
  2. notin
    Still wouldn’t be the same. And what if they won it all?
  3. notin
    It’s still much better than just leaving them out. The 1993 San Francisco Giants won 103 games and, since there was no Wild Card, sat at home and watched the 97-win Phillies advance. And how different would Sox’ fans perspective of Bucky Dent be if the 1978 Red Sox - winners of 99 games - went into the postseason as a Wild Card? The legacy of that whole season would be different…
  4. notin
    They’re geographic now, but historically they’ve just been named that way. For a long time, the Atlanta Braves, who play in a state with a coast line on the Atlantic Ocean, we’re in the NL West. This didn’t change until after 1993 when Central Divisions we’re added to the league. And teams like the Cubs and Cardinals - both a full time zone west of Atlanta - played in the NL East…
  5. notin
    One thing the dual WC system has helped with is at least making sure he right teams get in, even if you don't agree with who gets the easier path. I was not able to find a single instance of a team with a better record than one of the playoff teams watching from the outside without going all the way back to 2012 when the 90-72 Tampa Rays failed to make the post-season while the Detroit Tigers won the AL Central with an 88-74 record. (Baltimore and Texas both won 93 games to take the WC spots.)
  6. notin
    NHL overtime solutions have been a pathetic joke. When you’re running a low scoring sport that has inherent ties, fans of the sport actually understand that to be part of the game. But they have worked so hard and gotten so ridiculous with their scoring it has made the league a joke. You do realize hockey is the only sport where a team can move up in the standings with nothing but their own loss, right?
  7. notin
    MLB shouldn’t have divisions. Just put 15 teams in the AL; 15 in the NL. Play 9 games each against everyone in your league and 6 games against 6 teams in the other league. Top 4 in each league go the the playoffs…
  8. notin
    Oh that helps, but the MLB fan base probably also has hundreds of thousands who don’t watch an inning before the playoffs. And if adding one single postseason game can generate significant interest, MLB would be stupid not to do it…
  9. notin
    No. While that runner can advance, the hitter is credited with an at bat and does not get credit for a sac fly…
  10. notin
    At least the wild card teams are given a tougher route by having a single elimination game. And as it’s just one game, it might make some money, but not as much as a 7 game wild card series would. So be thankful for that. Or would people prefer the Nippon Professional Baseball format where the Wild Card plays their first series as a best of 5, but starts off 0-1, so they have to win 3 games before the other team wins 2….
  11. notin
    It’s after the season. Baseball-Reference even lists the games on their postseason page, and they count the stats as postseason stats.
  12. notin
    The Wild Card game is the postseason, just not the preferred method of getting in. Unlike a game 163 tiebreaker or games played in the A-B-C tiebreaker format, stats accrued in the WC game do NOT count towards the regular season. As they occur after the end of the season, they are by definition postseason…
  13. notin
    Miayim, not Alex…
  14. notin
    Or they could just hire the guy who wrote the book on that very subject for Tampa…
  15. notin
    Is there such a thing as “off-season momentum”?
  16. notin
    Arguing over the benefits of strikeouts vs GIDPs is like arguing the benefits of a fatal stab wound vs those of a fatal gunshot…
  17. notin
    But at 37, it’s actually quite possible Scherzer doesn’t even fill the void left by Martin Perez…
  18. notin
    You shouldn’t. Recency Bias is a cognitive bias related to a human thought process and has nothing to do with teams playing good or bad baseball…
  19. notin
    If course, that all depends on the Sox going 3-2…
  20. notin
    Namely Travis Shaw and Jose Iglesias…
  21. notin
    Scherzer is 37 and his future as an ace is very likely much shorter than any contract he wants…
  22. notin
    There are absolutely not ten 32yo former Cy Young winners available every year…
  23. notin
    I have been on board with bringing Porcello back. And Bradley, but conditionally. I stand by both of those…
  24. notin
    How about a “Casas to 1b, Dalbec to DH” set up for 2023, possibly mid-2022 depending on JD’s health and/or production?
  25. notin
    Fire Bloom!!!
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