Comments on: The Shot Heard Round The World…With Bud Selig http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/10/the-shot-heard-round-the-world-with-bud-selig.html Thu, 23 May 2013 18:44:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Metsie http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/10/the-shot-heard-round-the-world-with-bud-selig.html#comment-196897 Metsie Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:43:08 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=63905#comment-196897 The playoffs is less about who is the best team in baseball or the season and about who is playing the best at the end as opposed to the beginning!

Thats also why Wildcard teams do so well in them because they are usually forced to fight to get in and as a result are more focused going into the playoffs than some team who pretty much wrapped up the division by early to mid september!

Short series also tend to favor the away team!
They are at home in the most pressure packed games of the series. (counter intuitive but follow) All they really need to do is split the first away series and they have the advantage until the last game.

They should either get rid of the Wildcard or get rid of the divisions.
Get rid of the wildcard then some good teams in tough divisions won’t get in. Two lowest winning Div winners play each other in a much fairer 7 game series and the winners play the top team in the league.

OR forget the Divisions, make them their own trophy and just take the top 4 teams based on record regardless of their division to play for the playoffs!

Still won’t change anything regarding short series though.
Cause thats about how focused you are at the end of the season, What happens early is only relevant in regards to how well they play at the end being enough to make the playoffs!

Teams who were in a race till the last day of the season (Like the Cards) will be playing the best baseball at the time (unless they break) and have the advantage in a short series!

]]> By: Joe Diaz http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/10/the-shot-heard-round-the-world-with-bud-selig.html#comment-196883 Joe Diaz Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:06:09 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=63905#comment-196883 I actually hate the 3 divisions in each league.If not for the strike in 94 the Texas Rangers would’ve won the division with a 10 games below 500 record.I could live with just the East and West divisions in both leagues but I would love to go back to the old way of no divisions and just the 2 leagues.AL and NL.If they go to 15 teams in each league which is in the works and possibly the Astros switching leagues,I would like to see just the 2 leagues and the top 4 records in each league making the playoffs and the 1 seed having home field advantage throughout.

There’s even talk of adding a 2nd wildcard in each league and if that happens they should have the top 5 records make the playoffs with the 2 wildcards having a 1 game playoff .The winner of the 2 wildcards plays the 1 seed in a 7 game LDS and they play the winner of the 2-3 seeds in a 7 game LCS like it is now.

I’s rather go back to a balanced schedule.Obviously with 15 team leagues they’ll have to have at least one interleague game a day.This way with a balanced schedule and no divisions there wont be any 83 win teams like the 2006 Cardinals making the playoffs.

The 2008 Dodgers made the playoffs with 84 wins and the Mets went home with 89 wins which is ridiculous.It’s happened fairly often since they went to 3 divisions and with no divisions there won’t be any team going home because another a team with less wins was lucky enough to be in a weak division.It may not be like it was when there were two 8 team leagues but it’s much better than having three 5 team divisions in each league and it eliminates the possibility of a below 500 team making the playoffs like the 94 Rangers would’ve if not for the strike. Whatya think jessep?

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