~2022 MLB Thread~

[Cincydawg]

Sure, that'd be best.

Look at the history of baseball - each league had a season and a champion.  Great.  The best team is champ!
Then the upstart AL said "hey, I bet our champ could beat yours" to the NL and they played in 1901.  Starting in 1903, it was the World Series.
For 65 years, that's how it was. 
Then MLB expanded and split into divisions.  4 teams instead of 2.
For 24 years, that's how it was.
Then 4 divisions turned to 6, with a wild-card.
Then an expanded wild card.
Now, we'll have roughly 73 teams in the playoffs.
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That allowed the 12th-best team, as determined by a long-ass, 162 game season, to become the Word Champions.
Brilliant. 

I reread Page 7, I didn't see a suggestion as to how they should do it, just more ranting.

[Cincydawg]

Page 7.  Plain English.  Direct answer to your question.
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But I'm the problem here.

Maybe you could resurface your post where you described your personal preference for how it should be done today?  I couldn't locate it, maybe I'm blind.

[FearlessF]

literally 

[Cincydawg]

Page 7.  Plain English.  Direct answer to your question.
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But I'm the problem here.

I still don't see anything on page 7 of this thread related to what you'd like to see in baseball vis a vis playoffs.

[Riffraft]

OK, I will bite.  Go back to no interleague play - 2 divisions each league.  Division champs in playoff only.  AND FOR GOD SAKE GET RID OF THE DESIGNATED HITTER, IT IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE GAME.

[Cincydawg]

The trend obviously is to larger playoffs in every sport.  I've learned to live with it.

[longhorn320]

The trend obviously is to larger playoffs in every sport.  I've learned to live with it.

the NBA playoff system is a joke

[FearlessF]

the NBA is a joke

[Riffraft]

The trend obviously is to larger playoffs in every sport.  I've learned to live with it.

Oh so have I, I just don't have the interest I use to have in much of it.  Haven't watch pro Hockey or Basketball in I don't know how long.  Baseball is maybe 10 games a year.  College basketball is only late in Feb and March and then only if a school I am interested in is still playing.  Only football both Pro and particularly College has maintained my complete interest. 

[Cincydawg]

I'm down to just CFB and some baseball.  I got back into baseball because of the fantasy camps.  The first one I attended in 2016 I barely knew who was on the pro team.  I figured I'd better be a bit more conversant.  Now my wife is watching baseball and knows some of the rules.

[OrangeAfroMan]

I'm down to just CFB and some baseball.  

Same.

[ELA]

I'm the opposite with college football, it's become so exclusive to just a couple of schools, that I think the only reason I watch it at all anymore is because 95% of the games are on Saturdays, and just once a week.  I don't think I watched a single off Saturday game all year

[847badgerfan]

I'm the opposite with college football, it's become so exclusive to just a couple of schools, that I think the only reason I watch it at all anymore is because 95% of the games are on Saturdays, and just once a week.  I don't think I watched a single off Saturday game all year

It's a shame what they have done to the fans like us.

[FearlessF]

I still enjoy CFB, not as much as back in the 90s when my fav team was good, but I will watch it 7 nights a week and 4 or 5 times on Saturday