MLB Talk - 2010 Season
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Way to go Twins! Clinched the AL Central. Went to their web site to see about postseason tickets but this year you have to pre-register just to get a shot at them. I'm registered, but with my luck, I'll probably end up having to go through a broker.
I'm either going to pull for the Twins or Rays this year.
Give me a convincing argument to roll your way in October.
Try StubHub if it comes to that. I've always had good service with them. They're pretty much the only way for me to get Yankee tickets AT ALL, postseason or no...
SmoothieX: Have you ever considered that it's at times like this that the team needs the fans the most? Real fans stick with the team even when it's in the crapper.
It's rather odd to see you lecture someone about "real fans" when you needed an explanation of what it means when a player strikes out while caught looking, which is not exactly an obscure turn of phrase in baseball.
As for SmoothieX, the Mets have been eliminated from playoff contention, and he was simply stating the teams for which he'd be rooting in the playoffs. I don't see a crime in that.
Let's see: (1) The Twins are the first team to clinch a spot- points for punctuality. (2) It's the inaugural season for Target Field, so it'd be a new venue for the World Series. (3) A mix of familiar palyers and relatively unknows. (4) Baseball in November in Minnesota could be interesting.
I dunno- even though I'm a die hard Twins fan, I think I could probably make a better argument for you to root for the Rays.
As a Jays fan, it's hard to get excited about a team that's been out of the playoffs for the last seventeen years. I'll stick by them, but why do people think the Rogers Center is empty most nights?
As baseball has expanded, the playoffs have not. The addition of only one wildcard spot is not enough when a team like the Yankees or the Red Sox can simply buy their way into a playoff berth every year.
Major League Baseball either needs to expand the playoff format or switch to a hard cap system to create some level of parity in the game.
If by "hard cap" you mean salary cap, I think we all know that won't work. The MLBPA would never allow it.
As for expanded playoffs: What would you suggest they do?
Well, I won't pretend to know much about baseball's history and what the purists want, but it seems to me that shortening the season to say 105-130 games and adding a playoff round, perhaps adding two more wild card spots in each league. This would be similar to an NHL/NBA format.
Awww don't be jealous
Seriously though, this will probably be the year for another team. The Rays and the Yankees have been battling for first for the entire year. Both teams are tired. Honestly, this was the Jays opportunity to pull through but they didn't have the chops.
In the unwanted (by me) case that the Giants get overpowered in these last 11 or knocked during the post-season, my choices for desired winners would be as follows: (1) Rays (2) whoever hasn't won the series in the longest time, if ever, excluding... (3) the Yankees and the ones who edge the Giants out of the post season or knock them out.
EDIT: The Yanks and the Rays vaporizing in the first round would not surprise me, Clint.
EDIT2: Texas seems to be stumbling a bit, hopefully that continues and the A's can capitalize.
EDIT: The Yanks and the Rays vaporizing in the first round would not surprise me, Clint.
EDIT2: Texas seems to be stumbling a bit, hopefully that continues and the A's can capitalize.
See, I hate the NHL/NBA playoff format because half the teams make the playoffs. Sometimes teams with sub-500 records make it.
As for the same teams making it year after year, right now three teams currently set to make the playoffs made them last year. Go back a year and you're down to one. Compare this to the NBA, where the finals have been between the same two teams for the last couple of years.
As for the same teams making it year after year, right now three teams currently set to make the playoffs made them last year. Go back a year and you're down to one. Compare this to the NBA, where the finals have been between the same two teams for the last couple of years.
I enjoy the restricted playoff format, I think it leads to more interesting baseball. I think the current system allows a team to play well to push off the division champ. In other sports, it's possible for the division champ to coast a bit towards the end and make at least some playoff spot and then pick it up to win it all.
And, yes, the worst league when it comes to parity is the NBA. This has to do more with their horribly messed up cap system than anything else, though.
And, yes, the worst league when it comes to parity is the NBA. This has to do more with their horribly messed up cap system than anything else, though.
I'm also going to join the choir in regards to the playoff format. I like the way it is in MLB since few teams make it in. I don't want half the league to have a presence. One thing I would do is maybe change the Wild Card so that they only get one home game. As it is, I feel that the Wild Card has too much power.
So have any other teams clinched a playoff berth besides the Twins?
Nope. How did the White Sox fall to 12 back? 
Closest to clinching are Cincinatti with magic number of 4, folowed by the east divisions leaders of both leagues for either Division or wild card.
Both Wests are up for grabs, the NL especially!
Come again? I don't follow.
Both Wests are up for grabs, the NL especially!
Come again? I don't follow.
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