Re: 9/27 - 10/3 Game Discussion Thread
Man did I kick over the hornet's nest with my 3 game WC series pitch. I like the current format and I think it's a huge improvement over the previous set-up where division titles were almost meaningless (you can ask Matrix, I've had arguments with him before over this very subject); I just think in an ideal world, you'd tweak it a bit to strip out some randomness that hurts the occasional dominant WC team that found themselves stuck in the same division as the best team in baseball. That's all, nothing more. You'd still go all-out to win your division in order to avoid having to play a 3 game near-crapshoot series just to make it to the LDS. That's way more perilous for a team's WS chances than 1-2 extra days of rest. Unless I'm missing something here, I've never heard teams complain that the nearly week long All-Star break "throws off their rhythm." Most are glad for the breather after the grind of the 1st half.
No need to make mountains out of molehills.
Man did I kick over the hornet's nest with my 3 game WC series pitch. I like the current format and I think it's a huge improvement over the previous set-up where division titles were almost meaningless (you can ask Matrix, I've had arguments with him before over this very subject); I just think in an ideal world, you'd tweak it a bit to strip out some randomness that hurts the occasional dominant WC team that found themselves stuck in the same division as the best team in baseball. That's all, nothing more. You'd still go all-out to win your division in order to avoid having to play a 3 game near-crapshoot series just to make it to the LDS. That's way more perilous for a team's WS chances than 1-2 extra days of rest. Unless I'm missing something here, I've never heard teams complain that the nearly week long All-Star break "throws off their rhythm." Most are glad for the breather after the grind of the 1st half.
No need to make mountains out of molehills.
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