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To be honest in my opinion I've never minded the playoffs being a completely unfair crapshoot. To me they've always just been The Place Where All The Best Teams (which as established the regular season does a good job of deciding) Go To Beat Eachother Up and that's what they ultimately are. e: and I say this as a fan of a team that's been to the playoffs 4 times in 7 years and made it to the ALCS in one of them Monicro fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Oct 21, 2014 |
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I legitimately would be happy if they eliminated all postseason series except the World Series, but I might be insane.
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The Houston Astros, Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, and Colorado Rockies all had a stretch where they went 8-2 this past season, and the best playoff system is the insane one that oystertoadfish made up
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Seriouschat they should shorten the regular season and add more playoffs. Not by a lot, just go back to the 154 game amount and add a few more playoff teams. I don't know how to do this without adding a bye which is arguably bad, but it seems like it should be reasonable. Having to win just 8 games to go to the World Series seems low.
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Switch the entire schedule to the NFL format
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Monicro posted:Switch the entire schedule to the NFL format I think I'm on board with a 16-game baseball season, played weekly. #4-5 starters might object, though.
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I've posted this before in these sorts of discussions, but I still love it the last great pennant race 
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All playoff series are now one game but the world series is best 11 of 21.
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In honor of the Royals, make all wildcard games go 27 innings. You want multiple games in the series, play them all at once 
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Minarch posted:In honor of the Royals, make all wildcard games go 27 innings. You want multiple games in the series, play them all at once Kind of unironically this? Be a good way to emphasize defensive abilities in your starters.
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The playoffs are played in a series of single-elimination triple headers. Decide the entire playoffs in one-two days!
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All games tied after 9 innings decided by bunt-off.
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Run the playoffs (and regular season) like SmackDown!!, where all 29 other teams show up at Yankee Stadium, then Teddy Long comes out and says "Yankees! Tonight, you gonna fight... the Orioles, playa!"theacox posted:All games tied after 9 innings decided by bunt-off. "Finally," Juan Pierre whispered to himself. "My time has come."
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theacox posted:All games tied after 9 innings decided by bunt-off. Barry Zito - Utility Bunter
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I'll just put together a little certificate that says "CONGRATULATIONS TO THE #1 TEAM!" and you fill the year and the team with the best record that year. I'll send any of you babies a copy and you can fill it out and stick it on your loving wall.
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Everblight posted:Run the playoffs (and regular season) like SmackDown!!, where all 29 other teams show up at Yankee Stadium, then Teddy Long comes out and says "Yankees! Tonight, you gonna fight... the Orioles, playa!" Unironically want a royal rumble style playoff
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Just give the Marlins the World Series title year after year. TIA.
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All solutions found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzjmm2mSROk (pro click)
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All this chaos means that it is almost certain that a future Cubs team will win 100 games and the division and then get swept out of the playoffs by some bullshit 83-win wildcard team.
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R.D. Mangles posted:All this chaos means that it is almost certain that a future Cubs team will win 100 games and the division and then get swept out of the playoffs by some bullshit 83-win wildcard team.
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Everblight posted:No solutions found here: Made it to the PEDs part and turned it off.
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Everblight posted:All solutions found here: Wait a loving second. How can Olbermann be a complete moron all the time but be completely right on every point in this video? WTF is happening???
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theacox posted:Wait a loving second. How can Olbermann be a complete moron all the time but be completely right on every point in this video? WTF is happening??? Other than the witch-hunty PED stuff, he really is right about every last thing in this manifesto. AL President Teigen 
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OH GOD, OW  http://mlb.com/fancave/blog/article.jsp?content=article&content_id=99098788&partnerId=th_youtube quote:If anyone was wondering why James Shields didn't start Game 4 of the ALCS, he had a pretty good reason: he was passing a kidney stone. The Royals ace, who will take the mound for the World Series opener, felt severe pain during the ALCS and discovered the source after a CT scan. Shields said he would've pitched in Game 4 if called upon but noted that he was in "excruciating pain."
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As a multiple-time sufferer of kidney stones, I feel his pain. It really depends on the location of the stones, though. Within the kidneys has been unbelievably bad for me, whereas actually passing them isn't such a huge deal. Sure, it's like pissing razor blades, but internal to the kidneys is worse, as far as I have seen. I am struggling to apply this to playoff baseball though.
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If good regular season teams don't want to lose to dumb wildcard teams then they should beat those dumb wildcard teams. Playoffs aren't for deciding who is the best, they are for deciding who is the champion.
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Ammat The Ankh posted:A lot of people seem pretty upset over a wild card World Series for whatever reason. It's not just salty Cardinals or Angels fans either. David Schoenfield is going as far as to claim this is the worst World Series ever because neither team "won enough games." One day a 3rd-place team will win the World Series and it will be glorious.
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Retail Slave posted:One day a 3rd-place team will win the World Series and it will be glorious. It will be the Cubs. LOL
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Each official twitter account tweets the following: Should be win the World Series? RT for YES FAV for NO #wswinner The team with the most RT wins and the team with the most FAV is the loser.
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Everblight posted:All solutions found here: About two thirds of these were really stupid
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Jesus Christ start this world series thing already
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bawfuls posted:that's a feature not a bug the one game playoff has shown to be pretty rad even on a regular basis THE loving ROYALS ARE IN THE WORLD SERIES
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I don't give a poo poo about the playoff format or the number of wins or any of that poo poo. This post-season has been exciting, entertaining baseball all the way through and I have no reason to expect any less of the Series. I can't wait for this poo poo to get going! Go Giants.
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The Royals are hosting a by god World Series game tonight Unreal I was 4 when this last happened
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Bumming Your Scene posted:Jesus Christ start this world series thing already
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Bumming Your Scene posted:Jesus Christ start this world series thing already Only 8 hours left!!!!
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Clash of Clans (yes, the tap game) may have become the Royals' chicken and beer if they hadn't turned their season around: http://deadspin.com/a-clash-of-clans-addiction-nearly-sank-the-royals-seaso-1648848299 quote:When Kuntz walked inside the room, he saw a scene that had become all too familiar in recent weeks: a collection of Royals with their heads down, eyes locked on their iPads. The game was called "Clash of Clans," and for a period of time this summer, its excessive usage by members of this club exasperated the coaching staff. That's just so weird.
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tadashi posted:Clash of Clans (yes, the tap game) may have become the Royals' chicken and beer if they hadn't turned their season around: It's a thing, apparently. Here's Pittsburgh backup catcher Tony Sanchez tweeting about it and Adam Eaton references a clan composed of players in this article. Dr. Tommy John fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Oct 21, 2014 |
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