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The myth that the TV networks consider baseball to be one of the major sports. Remember Monday Nigh Baseball on ESPN? Well, ESPN considers Baseball to be just filler material when there is no real sports to cover, like NFL Preseason Exhibiton football games, which takes priority over the final month of the baseball pennant races.
which is not worth destroying the integrity of the game by creating unequal schedules.
How is the "integrity of the game" being destroyed by interleague play?
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Originally Posted by jtur88
I said I want 4 teams in the playoffs, you said that souinds horrible, you want eight. Let me recheck my arithmetic. Yup. That's double.
I think it was I who mentioned that I saw nothing wrong and many things right with doubling the number of playoff slots. I would probably add another wildcard per league.
What is the problem with it? You seem like you're just a purist who rejects change. If I have it wrong, please correct me, but that's what it seems like based on your disdain for any of the recent change in baseball.
I said I want 4 teams in the playoffs, you said that souinds horrible, you want eight. Let me recheck my arithmetic. Yup. That's double.
I challenge you to quote where I said that. I said your idea to revert to big divisions (your example) with 8 teams was bad. Even if I did say, which I didn't, that I wanted more playoff teams, you could bump it up to 6, it does not have to be 8.
Recheck your arithmetic again. Yup, as usual you're off.
How is the "integrity of the game" being destroyed by interleague play?
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Final standings have legitimacy only if all tams have played the same opponents the same number of times. Baseball is a competitive sport, whose integrity depends on a method of fairly determining the winner.
The Mets always have to play the Yankees and the Cardinals always have to play the Royals. So how, by looking at their WL at the end of the season, do we evaluate which has emerged as the "winner"?
Final standings have legitimacy only if all tams have played the same opponents the same number of times. Baseball is a competitive sport, whose integrity depends on a method of fairly determining the winner.
The Mets always have to play the Yankees and the Cardinals always have to play the Royals. So how, by looking at their WL at the end of the season, do we evaluate which has emerged as the "winner"?
I have no idea, seriously...no idea what you're talking about. So you're saying that unless every team plays the same teams the same number of times, that results are invalid? When has that type of schedule ever existed?
So are NFL results invalid? They play different teams and have different schedules every year outside of their own division....just like MLB.
People grossly underestimate the amount of luck in baseball.
I'd thought about this, but I wasn't going to make such a posting because it occurred to me that there's a hefty amount of luck in any sport. So it didn't seem especially applicable to just baseball.
Mostly just Mets fans on some of the baseball sites I'm a poster on. It's quite hysterical.
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