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Cincydawg

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Re: ~2022 MLB Thread~
« Reply #140 on: April 05, 2022, 04:43:13 PM »
For some reason, I enjoyed last year more than usual.
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Re: ~2022 MLB Thread~
« Reply #141 on: April 05, 2022, 08:14:13 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on April 05, 2022, 04:43:13 PM
For some reason, I enjoyed last year more than usual.
Because the previous one was fake?

Honestly, my own teams success doesn't even sway it.  College football leans hard into the most meaningful regular season, but really it's the most meaningless.  No other sport has as many games that have zero bearing on the postseason 
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« Reply #142 on: April 05, 2022, 08:16:19 PM »
And that's okay.  


People thought going from 2 to 4 would be inclusive, but it's really just become a safety net for the blue-bloods.  
So will going from 4 to 6 or 8 or 12.  
Then Bama could lose twice and get in, being the 'reward' for a top-4 team with far less talent.
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Re: ~2022 MLB Thread~
« Reply #143 on: April 05, 2022, 08:21:26 PM »
Quote from: ELA on April 05, 2022, 08:14:13 PM
Because the previous one was fake?

Honestly, my own teams success doesn't even sway it.  College football leans hard into the most meaningful regular season, but really it's the most meaningless.  No other sport has as many games that have zero bearing on the postseason
162 game reg season???
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Re: ~2022 MLB Thread~
« Reply #144 on: April 05, 2022, 08:38:03 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on April 05, 2022, 08:16:19 PM
And that's okay. 


People thought going from 2 to 4 would be inclusive, but it's really just become a safety net for the blue-bloods. 
So will going from 4 to 6 or 8 or 12. 
Then Bama could lose twice and get in, being the 'reward' for a top-4 team with far less talent.
Depends on whether simply making the playoffs is a thing.  That's the balancing act I think MLB is on the wrong side of now.  When the Tigers made the playoffs in 2006, I was over the moon.  Didn't care what they did after that.  Same with MSU in 2015.  Except the narrative is killing it
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« Reply #145 on: April 05, 2022, 08:56:11 PM »
Baseball is different - we all know that.  

The variance in win% between the best and the worst is small compared to other sports.  It's just a fact.
It's true in a 1-game sample, a 7-game series, and a 162-game season.  

That being the case, expanding the MLB playoffs is a PURE money grab, which is why the owners wanted it.  It has absolutely ZERO to do with giving more fanbases hope or reason to celebrate.  Those are happenstance side-effects.  

That being said, it's not to rain on anyone's parade....but a fact is a fact.  

I'm obviously in the minority here.  For whatever reason, all people care about is who wins the WS.  Yeah, I have a problem when an 88-win team is forever known as the champion when 8 other teams proved they were better in a massive sample called the regular season.

The more I think about this, the more I compare it to die-hard NFL fans.  Season-ticket holders who live and die with their team, when there's not even a thin link between them and the franchise.  A franchise that just wants to extract every last nickel it can from its fan's pockets.  A franchise that would move to a new city the moment it's told it can't rape the tax-payers of it's current location.  People who can barely afford it buying those season tickets.......at least college football has some connection/loyalty (unless you're a Miami fan).  
At least I got my degree there.  At least I know UF isn't going to up and leave to Ocala or something.  

Idk, I just can't shake the masses preferring crowning the champion of a sport through a series of 7-game samples rather than a huge, radically more valid sample.
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« Reply #146 on: April 05, 2022, 08:56:50 PM »
*And I know the NFL fan is just having fun and doing what they want - but I can't help but see it as something of a one-way relationship...a la w/ a god.  I find it sad.
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Re: ~2022 MLB Thread~
« Reply #147 on: April 05, 2022, 09:31:05 PM »
Some of us mlb fans just like attending games cuz it's great and don't give a shit about playoff implications. 
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Re: ~2022 MLB Thread~
« Reply #148 on: April 05, 2022, 09:39:12 PM »
one of the reasons the first 100 games are good
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« Reply #149 on: April 05, 2022, 09:50:58 PM »
I just enjoy going to games, too.  I love putting on a ballgame on TV.  This stuff doesn't hinder my enjoyment of the game.  


I just don't understand the masses sometimes.  Expanding MLB's postseason is one of those times.
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Re: ~2022 MLB Thread~
« Reply #150 on: April 05, 2022, 10:26:48 PM »
the masses don't make the decision

the few, taking $$$ form the masses, make those decisions
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« Reply #151 on: April 05, 2022, 10:59:14 PM »
Duh.
The masses go along with it.  They mention the good things about it.  They almost rationalize it to make it okay to donate their dollars to the billionaires.
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Re: ~2022 MLB Thread~
« Reply #152 on: April 06, 2022, 06:11:40 AM »
Personally, I don't get wound up about it, "they" can do whatever, OK with me.  I have a preference, and understand my preference is irrelevant, and what happens is driven by money, welcome to reality.
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Re: ~2022 MLB Thread~
« Reply #153 on: April 06, 2022, 10:56:30 AM »
I don't think baseball at all is just about who wins the World Series.  I think it's the one sport where simply making the postseason feels (or at least felt) like an accomplishment
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