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Assuming Toronto can hold a 10 run lead against the team with the worst record in the AL with 3 innings to go, there will be 8 possible outcomes with 6 of them resulting in some kind of tie-breaker.
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No it is because what he says makes no sense. He wants to concede the division to his hated rivals to play the Cards in the WC. He should want to beat the Giants to make them play another game and get the winner in LA. Aren't the Dodgers defending champions with 105 wins going into the last game? He acts like they are lucky to have a winning record.
I guess it doesn't matter. The Padres are tanking to the Giants just like 1971. The Dodgers hate the Giants, but everyone else in the Division hates the Dodgers. |
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Until today his BA was .096. Watching him bat must be an exciting time.
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Webb has scored as many runs today as the entire Boston Red Sox team has in their game...
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Yes, This!
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And now Mariners and Jays fans become Nationals fans for the next hour...
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Unless Seattle can score some runs, it won't matter to them what the Nationals do.
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Edit - Yes. Mariners also need to win.
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Check again bro.
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NYY@BOS should be fun.
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Agreed, but not as fun as Cards @ Doodies for us NL folk
Go Arenado!! QUOTE=BobbyStrawberry;2150548]NYY@BOS should be fun.[/QUOTE] |
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That one should be fun too. I am happy for Arenado. (And anyone who gets out of COL, honestly)
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Fear the Wainwright.
Doesn't seem right that a team with 100 wins is out if they lose one game, but such is baseball.
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I admire your optimism but decades of being a Sox fan tell me otherwise. I would also note that there is way too much math here. I went to law school to avoid maths other that .1 or .25 for billing purposes and have even avoided that for the last twenty four years
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Just win your division and then you don't have that problem. If there was still just one wild card, then the Giants and Dodgers would have had little motivation to play hard down to the wire since winning the division wouldn't get you much more than being the wild card would. Home field advantage would be about it.
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Both wild card match ups should be fun. Just amazing that a 106 game winning team is in the wild card game.
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Unfortunately, no tie breakers needed.
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For you easterners, its kinda like the Pats missing the playoffs with 11 wins, remember that? Shit happens in all sports, go Cards!!
106 wins & watching the playoffs next round from Beverly Hills Wain will be Right QUOTE=mrreality68;2150562][/QUOTE] Both wild card match ups should be fun. Just amazing that a 106 game winning team is in the wild card game.[/QUOTE] |
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If ands and buts were candy and nuts
Wed all have a merry Hanukkah |
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True, but I think one of the main reasons they added the second wild card (aside from more tv money) was to reward teams for winning their division and to provide incentive to do so.
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I doubt that, I think it had much more to do with making scenarios like today possible, where more teams remain in contention until the very end.
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Keeping more teams in contention was part of it as well, but there were definitely seasons when there was just one wild card that teams didn't play for the division at the end so they could rest players or get their pitchers lined up for the playoffs because the only difference between winning the division vs the wild card spot was one home game in a series. Having to play a single elimination game now with two wild card teams makes winning the division much more worthwhile.
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It definitely was that. With 1 Wild Card 5/17 or 29.4% won the World Series. That meant that a Wild Card team had a better chance to win than a division winner. Since they changed, it has dropped to 2/9 or 22.2%, now division winners are winning at a higher rate because of that one game. I understand these are small samples, but it is all we have. There definitely was lots of complaints about how many Wild Card teams were winning before they added the second team.
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Here's an interesting and relevant excerpt from The Drunkard's Walk that I often reference when discussing statistical probabilities in baseball with my friends... Quote:
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That is a really ironic quote. The Giants and Dodgers played a 162 game schedule and the Giants won more games. However, you have decided because of " theoretical" wins, those 162 games should be ignored and the Dodgers are the best team. Why even have a playoffs? Just give them the title because you said so. |
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Go Yankees Go
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I like to sit in the bleachers at Fenway, get a sunburn eat pretzels and watch the game.
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Sadly my team will be sunning on the beaches in Florida
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All the post mortems on the Yankees will talk about a lost season and what a mess it was. Yep, team 21 games over .500 and it was a complete
and utter train wreck and heads should roll. The depths of Yankee fan entitlement never ceases to amaze me all these years later. Some guy is putting his 27 rings leather jacket back in the closet for a long winter. Outraged that somehow one of more teams performed better than the Yankees. Not how it was pre-ordained. |
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I am not sure which Yankees fans are feeling entitled or which are bitching about the season. I hope you were not implying I. I was just saying to H Murphy that it was a good problem to have and enjoy it and my team will not be since his team beat mine.
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my misunderstanding (especially since it came right after my post. Like any fan of a team that lost I am frustrated about last nights game. But 1. I respect and enjoy what they have done this season 2. Respect the fact that they got beat in the wild card game and wished their fans to enjoy their run (I cannot wish the Boston Team a good run since we consider them the arch enemy ) 3. Even choose the picture of the card for the game of ruth "NY Card" wearing the Boston uniform as a tie in)
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The Yankees and Red Sox are both very good teams. They played 20 times this year with an 11-9 split. That game could have gone either way.
Baseball is a strange sport in that over the course of a season, the best teams win 3 out of 5, and the worst teams win 2 out of 5. The unpredictability of any given game is part of its appeal I think. |
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If you don't play well enough over the course of 162 games to avoid being caught up in a single game Wild Card game, you've got no one to blame but yourself.
Love the Yankees (as much as they aggravate me at times), but they but they fell short of what was required.
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For us fans it is a heartbreak. (same for any team that had a chance to make a run)
Especially since our NY Football Teams seasons ended before it started and as a result we have a long fall and winter sports season.
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Martinez' injury is of concern. With a not so great staff, the best path to victory is to score a shitload of runs lol.
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Doing that against Tampa's pitching will be quite a challenge. But Alex Cora has proven he knows how to find, ahem, ways to win...
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Short series, one can always hope.
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WS
How 'bout Brewers vs. the Astros
Wait.......who's the NL team and who's the AL team? |
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I'll be curious to see if they bring Aaron Boone back. He did bring them back from the dead, but he also had them at .500 in July, and although I don't follow them too closely, he seemed like he pulled a few headscratchers during the season.
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