~2024 MLB Thread~

[ELA]

That game is infamous for the bottles, trash and food thrown at the Cardinals.

Meaning not enough of them?

[MarqHusker]

https://youtu.be/7CGNUlY43_s?si=am_hbedjHPwgyRM1


See for yourself 

[ELA]

It's a low level staffer, and mere video evidence.  Doesn't prove anything 

[MaximumSam]

I am closing in on watching an entire baseball game

[ELA]

Rangers-DBacks, as expected.

Can we get a location on SDF?

[FearlessF]

[Cincydawg]

[OrangeAfroMan]

Rewarding mediocrity.  
20 fucking games back.  
Champions my dick.

[OrangeAfroMan]

A sort of good thing about this, and I believe the Dodgers are already doing this, is that it puts a kind of restrictor plate on team spending.
The Mets are  the Mets and obviously haven't discovered anything about anything.
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Follow me here - if you believe that each short-series in the postseason truly is a coin-flip (and it is), then building a team to win 100+ games is superfluous.  It's waste.  Stupid.  Overkill.  
Don't do it.
The Dodgers won 100 games this year, but they were a very imperfect team and I"m not sure how in the hell they won 100.  Every pitcher hurt, no big add at the deadline, etc....just happened to win 100.  

Teams should limit their spending and just get into the postseason with 84-87 wins.  Owners should LOVE this.  
No more bloated contracts.  No more reaches for guys 2 years too late.  IF GMs are smart.  IF.  

[longhorn320]

the problem with your theory is that a team has to first make it to the playoffs to get any reward

for a team to make it to the playoffs they have to win 92 to 95 games on average

you cant win that many games without a pretty good roster

last year the Astros won 106 games and won it all

[OrangeAfroMan]

the problem with your theory is that a team has to first make it to the playoffs to get any reward

for a team to make it to the playoffs they have to win 92 to 95 games on average

you cant win that many games without a pretty good roster

last year the Astros won 106 games and won it all

Number of wins of playoff teams the past 5 years:
84, 84, 87, 86, 90, covid sub-.500, 89, .......here, that doesn't even matter, we have 3rd-place teams getting to the postseason.  
And I'd even say all of this is fine, except for the fact that they play 162 games.  The most games of any professional sport, by far, and thus the most statistically significant.....and then they're taking that and throwing it out the window.

Why bother with 162 games!?!?  If you're going to negate your own significance, what's the fucking point?!?

[longhorn320]

can you get into the playoffs winning under 90 games sure but its not the norm

[OrangeAfroMan]

can you get into the playoffs winning under 90 games sure but its not the norm

90 games in a vacuum is decent, but when it's behind a 105-game winning team, it's crap.  
Inclusivity in a playoff to determine a champion is stupid, no matter the sport.  

[longhorn320]

90 games in a vacuum is decent, but when it's behind a 105-game winning team, it's crap. 
Inclusivity in a playoff to determine a champion is stupid, no matter the sport. 

Its not pure inclusivity due to the better teams givin byes and home field advantage