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Machinehead said:
Sorry guys but I'm going for the Phillies all the way.

2001 remains one of the deepest wounds of my sports fandom and I wish the Arizona Diamondbacks nothing but hell on earth.
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I'm on the anyone but Houston bandwagon, but I want to see Jordan Montgomery start the WS clinching game with Chapman closing it out just to shitcan it to Cashman.
 
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Evan Carter's story is pretty awesome. Went from being a WTF draft pick (picked pretty high out of a bumble f*** town in the middle of covid so no one really got eyes on him and thus, he wasn't ranked in any publications top 1-2-3-4-500) and a few years later, he's starting for the Rangers and f***ing crushing it.

You don't normally see high school players move as fast as he did, let alone ones drafted outside of the first round who had no track record beforehand.

sbjnyc said:
May as well root for the flyers and eagles while you're at it.
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Except when you realize that Yankee fans don't have the same hatred for the Phillies as Mets fans do.

I won't root for the Phillies unless they play Houston, but I get why others might.
 
Chapman tried his best to blow that game last night. A ball to the warning track and low IQ Altuve could only bail him out. I like Texas and want them to win most out of the remaining 4, however, I would not mind seeing Chapman deliver a patented back breaking inning as he always does.
 
Has there been one close game in this entire tournament?

Baseball is getting just as bad as hockey. Mid ass regular season teams wake up from their nap and every game ends 9-3.
 
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Machinehead said:
Has there been one close game in this entire tournament?

Baseball is getting just as bad as hockey. Mid ass regular season teams wake up from their nap and every game ends 9-3.
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They should go back to 4 playoff teams in each league. Baseball has historically been top-heavy in the playoffs. Now there’s a bunch of these mid ass regular season teams getting hot at the right time, making this awful.

If even go back to 2 playoff teams in each league, or f*** it, go pre-1960s-ish and f*** the playoff completely and just have a WS.

What we have now with these wildcard teams is the worst system they ever had (aside from the recent 1 game wildcard game, of course).
 
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Kane One said:
They should go back to 4 playoff teams in each league. Baseball has historically been top-heavy in the playoffs. Now there’s a bunch of these mid ass regular season teams getting hot at the right time, making this awful.

If even go back to 2 playoff teams in each league, or f*** it, go pre-1960s-ish and f*** the playoff completely and just have a WS.

What we have now with these wildcard teams is the worst system they ever had (aside from the recent 1 game wildcard game, of course).
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You know what I do like about it tho? The opening series where it's just three games, in three days, in one stadium. That's what baseball is.

Obviously the three games is dicey but I'd be interested in switching the regular series to 3-3-1.
 
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Bob Richards said:
Sports are letting too many teams make the playoffs.

I’ve grown increasingly jaded about regular seasons lol
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This is why I increasingly enjoy the way European soccer does it.

The league champion is the team that finishes 1st. That's it. If you want to go to the European Championship which I guess is like "the playoffs," you can't finish any lower than 4th in a 20-team league.

There aren't games that matter and games that don't matter. There's just a season and the whole season matters.

There's always this idea that you need to dangle the carrot to generate interest but 99% of soccer teams suck and the sport has 4 billion fans, so I don't know about all that.
 
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Machinehead said:
This is why I increasingly enjoy the way European soccer does it.

The league champion is the team that finishes 1st. That's it. If you want to go to the European Championship which I guess is like "the playoffs," you can't finish any lower than 4th in a 20-team league.

There aren't games that matter and games that don't matter. There's just a season and the whole season matters.

There's always this idea that you need to dangle the carrot to generate interest but 99% of soccer teams suck and the sport has 4 billion fans, so I don't know about all that.
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Except in european soccer there is a vast difference in the resources of the top teams and everyone else that can't be bridged (much much larger than in US pro leagues) and those top teams try to keep it that way (e.g. super league).
 
Machinehead said:
This is why I increasingly enjoy the way European soccer does it.

The league champion is the team that finishes 1st. That's it. If you want to go to the European Championship which I guess is like "the playoffs," you can't finish any lower than 4th in a 20-team league.

There aren't games that matter and games that don't matter. There's just a season and the whole season matters.

There's always this idea that you need to dangle the carrot to generate interest but 99% of soccer teams suck and the sport has 4 billion fans, so I don't know about all that.
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Same thing in F1.

But this is literally how baseball did it as well. Come in first? Congrats, you’re the league champion. Then the WS was created when there were two leagues.
 
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I don't really have a preference for doing it one way or the other. American sports fans in general, however, I think would riot if there was no Super Bowl, no World Series, NBA Championship, Stanley Cup, etc. If anything, North America is heading towards more and bigger playoff arrangements--and I believe the rest of the world is, too, as leagues and owners see how much money there is to be had by holding playoff tournaments. Even the World Cup and the UCL are expanding their fields. At the end of the day, the money will win out and everyone will be playing for a playoff championship trophy.
 
nyr2k2 said:
I don't really have a preference for doing it one way or the other. American sports fans in general, however, I think would riot if there was no Super Bowl, no World Series, NBA Championship, Stanley Cup, etc. If anything, North America is heading towards more and bigger playoff arrangements--and I believe the rest of the world is, too, as leagues and owners see how much money there is to be had by holding playoff tournaments. Even the World Cup and the UCL are expanding their fields. At the end of the day, the money will win out and everyone will be playing for a playoff championship trophy.
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Count me in for going back to 4 teams. The wildcard races were awesome. One game play in when it ended up tied.

Even the one game 4/5 matchup was fun. This just sucks.
 
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nyr2k2 said:
Or they're like me and didn't care. Same as the Patriots and all that.
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Everyone was doing what the pats were but they got caught and naturally us jet fans made a big deal of it. Same thing with the astros. No one (except us jet fans) probably would have made such a big deal about deflate gate if Brady didn't literally tell Harbaugh to read the rulebook a week earlier.
 
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sbjnyc said:
Everyone was doing what the pats were but they got caught and naturally us jet fans made a big deal of it. Same thing with the astros. No one (except us jet fans) probably would have made such a big deal about deflate gate if Brady didn't literally tell Harbaugh to read the rulebook a week earlier.
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Lol if you think EVERYONE was doing what the Astros were doing.

There’s a reason they got dinged as hard as they did (and honestly, it wasn’t hard enough.)

Something tells me had the Mets fallen victim to the Astros and their bs you’d be singing a different tune.
 
sbjnyc said:
Everyone was doing what the pats were but they got caught and naturally us jet fans made a big deal of it. Same thing with the astros. No one (except us jet fans) probably would have made such a big deal about deflate gate if Brady didn't literally tell Harbaugh to read the rulebook a week earlier.
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Every time one of these cheating things comes up, I'm like, man, I wish my team was at the forefront of something like that. :laugh:

The Astros thing, I was surprised it was as rudimentary as banging on a trash can or whatever. I had long assumed teams had really advanced and tech-heavy schemes for stealing and relaying signs.

GoAwayPanarin said:
Lol if you think EVERYONE was doing what the Astros were doing.

There’s a reason they got dinged as hard as they did (and honestly, it wasn’t hard enough.)

Something tells me had the Mets fallen victim to the Astros and their bs you’d be singing a different tune.
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I mean I'm a Jets fan and I don't care about the various things the Patriots did.
 
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GoAwayPanarin said:
Lol if you think EVERYONE was doing what the Astros were doing.

There’s a reason they got dinged as hard as they did (and honestly, it wasn’t hard enough.)

Something tells me had the Mets fallen victim to the Phillies and their bs you’d be singing a different tune.
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Fixed that for you. As I recall, the yanks and red sox were both fined for cheating also. What they did wasn't on the same scale as what the astros did so no one really cared aside from some annoying met fans but its not exactly the moral high ground either.
 
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