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MLB World Series 2018: Eh. Dodgers/Boston. Eh.

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^Only took you 15 years but welcome to the new era. ;)
Mark my words they will go 150 and 12! :lol:

Franklin said:
To me, what's worse than the MLB season starting in March is when it ends near or even after Halloween. Seeing cold-weather fans wrapped in blankets and the players in gloves drinking coffee in the dugout while huddled around heaters and wearing ski masks while on the field is no way to play in April, but it's especially no way for the World Series to be played.
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As, finally, sports people are starting to realize, it's still 20 degrees below average in the northeast, so cutting the season 15 games would still make you play several in the cold. It makes no difference. It was 29 last week during the epic Cubs game, should have been 59. What happens in July if it's 115 out? Guess we can only play Baseball in May, June, September and October.

Between 1961 and 2000 there was 162 games and not a single game was played in November until 2001 when 9-11delayed the season. So it it worked for 40 years they can make a way to make it work again.
 
The average highs in the Midwest and NE in late March are in the low to mid 50s. Not bad, but not great. Within two weeks, the averages go up five degrees.

MLB actually seemed to do everything it could to avoid bad weather situations this opening day. The home teams were:
Arizona (desert and dome)
Atlanta
Kansas City (average high is 62; but they did get dinged here when one game of the series was PPD)
Los Angeles (Dodgers)
Miami (Florida and dome)
Oakland
San Diego
Seattle (dome)
Tampa Bay (Florida and dome)
Texas
Toronto (dome).

The only potentially iffy weather home choices on opening day were Cincinnati (PPD), Detroit ( PPD), New York (Mets -- 54 degrees), and Baltimore (where it was actually 70).

For what it's worth, over half of the 25 PPD from March 29 to April 18 were from April 14 to 18 (13 of them). Detroit, Chicago, and Minnesota were the hardest hit teams. Also, one was an unusual PPD in SF and another in Toronto was due to problems with the dome.

The problem is, they are pushing the outer parameters of the times the season can start and when it should end. If they should decide to squeeze in more playoffs, or if MLB expands to 32 and adopts four divisions of four teams in each league with an NFL style playoff (two wildcards and first round byes for the division winners with the best records), then the season would have to be shortened to accommodate either.

One other thing to consider is that a team that wins the wild card game then goes all the way to World Series with every series going the maximum number of games will have played 182 games that season. Even sweeping all the way is 174 games.
 
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IDK about the whole midwest, but here in the Chicagoland area, there was a significant change in weather from 2001-2002.

2001 and before we, more or less, had 50's in March, 60's in April and 70's in May, with the hot summer being June-Aug/Sep. Then we'd be back to the 50's by October.

2002 and on, the 60's regularly last until June, the heat lasts until September and we're still getting 60's until November.

This winter has been a lot more stubborn than most in the last 17 years. Last year it snowed here all of twice, both time well in the winter months.

This is a generalization of course, but overall the climate has shifted about 2 months forward. You have other northern cities (and Colorado) that would still be affected by snow even if they shortened the season by a few weeks, but I think it's worth a look. I've always thought 162 games was a hell of a lot.

Of course the WS was earlier before the expanded divisions and wild card.
 
The Red Sox will hit a slump eventually--it's the nature of the game--but I am loving what I'm seeing from them so far. Hopefully they can keep it up.
 
Skywalker said:
The Red Sox will hit a slump eventually--it's the nature of the game--but I am loving what I'm seeing from them so far. Hopefully they can keep it up.
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I just read today that of the five best starts in MLB history 25 games into the season, only the 1911 Tigers didn't go on to win the pennant. So if the Red Sox go 20-5 or better, they're in good company. The 1955 Dodgers started 21-4 and won 98 games. The 1911 Tigers, 1946 Red Sox, 1977 Dodgers, and 1984 Tigers all stared 20-5 and won 89, 104, 98, and 104 respectively. In any case, this is a damn impressive start, and that's a Cardinals fan saying that about the Red Sox.
 
It was also warmer in February as an average than March in Boston. I remember several 70 degree days (west of Boston) in February and none in March and like one in April. Maybe we should only play in February.

It's annoying because I'm fine with them making the season 154 games again, just don't use weather as an excuse.

Anyways baseball. The Red Sox won 93 games the last year (and still fired the manager) just like the last few seasons. So really 89 or even 98 game wins aren't that far off. And having looked it up the Sox were 10-8 last year, in third place in the AL East, three games back. I'm hoping for 100+ because I don't remember the Red Sox ever doing that in my lifetime. (Just wiki-ed it and the Sox have won 100+ games three times, 1912,1915 and 1946.)
 
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In Boston last year it stayed in the 70s until October, that's unusual. Usually you get a lot of high 60s/low 70s in Late September then it drops into 50s and 60s quickly in October. It was a weird winter too, subzero highs for two weeks in December, then very mild weather through February until full on snowstorms hit in March.

Remember baseball is a high variance game, of course the Red Sox will regress toward the mean. But it's a good thing to have a small division cushion when that happens now that they have the ridiculous wild card play-in game.

Also remember the Celtics started 16-2 too. :)
 
I personally think that all new stadiums going forward need to be retractable domes. Play the majority of games with the roof open but close it when the weather is rough.

Football plays the majority of their games in winter weather but it’s champ game is played in perfectly weather or inside a dome. Baseball plays the majority of their games in perfect weather but it’s championship games are played in the time of bad weather.
 
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Football plays the majority of their games in winter weather but it’s champ game is played in perfectly weather or inside a dome. Baseball plays the majority of their games in perfect weather but it’s championship games are played in the time of bad weather.
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I never liked that about Football. You can play any number of regular season games and playoff games in horrid weather but the Super Bowl is played under different conditions. Bullshit

Now, I fully understand that the SB has become more than simply what happens on the field but the concept of it being played in ideal conditions is nonsense. There shouldn't be separate rules just because it's the penultimate game. Let the game be played as it was intended regardless of the weather and the importance of the game.
 
BRYANT GUMBEL: “If you were tanking, would you tell me?”

DEREK JETER: “Tanking? What is-- no-- tanking?”

BRYANT GUMBEL: “Tanking is -- not trying your hardest to win ball games in -- every day.”

DEREK JETER: “We're trying to win ball games every day.”

BRYANT GUMBEL: “If you trade your best players in exchange for prospects it's unlikely you're going to win more games in the immediate future--”

DEREK JETER: “When you take the field, you have an opportunity to win each and every day. Each and every day. You never tell your team that they're expected to lose. Never.”

BRYANT GUMBEL: “Not in so--”

DEREK JETER: “Now, you can think -- now-- now, I can't tell you how you think. Like, I see your mind. I see that's how you think. I don't think like that. That's your mind working like that.”

BRYANT GUMBEL: “No, I get that. But I guess not in so many words--”

DEREK JETER: “But you don't. But you don't get it.”

BRYANT GUMBEL: “I do.”

DEREK JETER: “You don’t. We have two different mi-- I can't wait to get you on the golf course, man. We got-- I mean, I can't wait for this one.”

BRYANT GUMBEL: “No, I mean--”

DEREK JETER: “You're mentally weak.”

BRYANT GUMBEL: “No, I just-- I'm-- I'm realistic. You really expect this team--”

DEREK JETER: “I expect this team to--”

BRYANT GUMBEL: “--as presently configured to contend--”

DEREK JETER: “--compete, to compete. To compete--”

BRYANT GUMBEL: “Compete is one thing--”

DEREK JETER: “Every sing--”

BRYANT GUMBEL: “Watch my lips. Not compete.”

DEREK JETER: “I see your--”

BRYANT GUMBEL: “Contend.”

DEREK JETER: “I see your lips. I see. I've been seeing 'em this whole interview. I see your lips moving constantly. You'd never tell your players that you are expected to lose. You don't do that. You should take that as a slap in the face as a player. You should take that as a slap in the face.”

BRYANT GUMBEL: “You expect them to contend?”

DEREK JETER: “I do. I do. If I don't believe with the-- in the players that we have on the field, who's going to believe in them?”

BRYANT GUMBEL: “But as an executive, it looks like you're delusional if you believe otherwise--”

DEREK JETER: “Well, call me delusional.”
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Uh, Jeets, you might want to take a PR class or something.
 
Baseball stadiums with roofs are the worst thing ever. This isn't football or basketball where every stadium or court is the same, it's baseball.

Suck it the fuck up.
 
Tom Hendricks said:
I personally think that all new stadiums going forward need to be retractable domes. Play the majority of games with the roof open but close it when the weather is rough.

Football plays the majority of their games in winter weather but it’s champ game is played in perfectly weather or inside a dome. Baseball plays the majority of their games in perfect weather but it’s championship games are played in the time of bad weather.
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The problem is a roof that is a retractable dome is an incredible added expense. If I remember correctly, putting a retractable roof onto the Viking's US Bank Stadium instead of making it an indoor stadium would've added another $100 million to the cost. It would have to be similar with any new baseball-only stadiums. And, one problem with the Twins drawing at the Metrodome was that it was a permanent indoor stadium. Who in Minnesota wants to spend a nice June or July evening indoors?

You do hear talk every now and then of moving the World Series to a neutral warm weather site. It seems very unlikely that would ever happen. It's also a bit of an overreaction to the weather. Even in Boston, the average day time highs in October are in the 60s and the overnight lows the first two weeks of the month are in the 50s and in the 40s the last two weeks. It's pretty much the same in Chicago. If the Twins make a World Series, the weather could be problematic. It gets into the 30s at night the last two weeks of October in the Twin Cities.

It would hurt TV ratings, but going back to some day time World Series games in cold weather sties would be preferable to anything else. Certainly less revenue would be lost that way than solving any "cold weather problems" in the World Series by shortening the season.
 
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Kronos said:
If the Marlins had any fans left I'm sure they would be embarrassed.
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Did the Marlins ever have fans to begin with?

People can't predict the weather 5 days in advance never mind 5 months. Let's worry about October weather in, say, October?
 
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