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  • #511
    Originally posted by mpfunk View Post
    The playoffs are exciting. Also, there is a long tradition of having playoffs in MLB.
    Well it's obviously a flawed tradition in that it leads some to think that the winner is the best team in MLB, right? Why do something just because it's been done for so many years?

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    • #512
      Originally posted by Bo Diddley View Post
      Well it's obviously a flawed tradition in that it leads some to think that the winner is the best team in MLB, right? Why do something just because it's been done for so many years?
      Here is the solution, acknowledge that it isn't to determine the best team and enjoy the playoffs.
      As I lead this army, make room for mistakes and depression
      --Kendrick Lamar

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      • #513
        Originally posted by mpfunk View Post
        Here is the solution, acknowledge that it isn't to determine the best team and enjoy the playoffs.
        Oh my. You are a bundle of contradictions.
        "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
        "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
        "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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        • #514
          Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
          Oh my. You are a bundle of contradictions.
          If baseball didn't have a World Series since 1903 and instead had been deciding the champion for that time using the 162 game regular season, I wouldn't be an advocate for starting a playoff. There is no contradiction between my thoughts on college football and MLB.
          As I lead this army, make room for mistakes and depression
          --Kendrick Lamar

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          • #515
            Originally posted by mpfunk View Post
            If baseball didn't have a World Series since 1903 and instead had been deciding the champion for that time using the 162 game regular season, I wouldn't be an advocate for starting a playoff. There is no contradiction between my thoughts on college football and MLB.
            So it's a great thing and they should keep doing it. But if they weren't already doing it, they shouldn't do it. Makes perfect sense!
            "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
            "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
            "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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            • #516
              Originally posted by mpfunk View Post
              Here is the solution, acknowledge that it isn't to determine the best team and enjoy the playoffs.
              Funk, yes the team that was best on paper in the regular season doesn't always win the playoffs. Otherwise, there would be no point to having playoffs. But that is precisely what contributes to the drama and the spectacle and why they are so damned exciting. In the playoffs you have the best teams (including some favorites and some underdogs) and you have HUGE stakes. In other words, everything that makes sports so much fun to watch in the first place. If you don't like playoffs, I can't imagine why you would enjoy sports in the first place. Then again, maybe you don't.
              "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
              "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
              "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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              • #517
                Mathews taketh away, and then giveth.
                "Sure, I fought. I had to fight all my life just to survive. They were all against me. Tried every dirty trick to cut me down, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch."

                - Ty Cobb

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                • #518
                  Just had to give up World Series tickets because I can't get out of work. Ugh.
                  "Sure, I fought. I had to fight all my life just to survive. They were all against me. Tried every dirty trick to cut me down, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch."

                  - Ty Cobb

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                  • #519
                    Originally posted by mpfunk View Post
                    Here is the solution, acknowledge that it isn't to determine the best team and enjoy the playoffs.
                    Right, The World Series is broken. Gotcha!
                    Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
                    - Howard Aiken

                    Any sufficiently complicated platform contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a functional programming language.
                    - Variation on Greenspun's Tenth Rule

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                    • #520
                      http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/...o-become-world

                      I'm talking to some people here on how to send the Royals players a bunch of gems so that the Giants can win the WS.

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                      • #521
                        Originally posted by filsdepac View Post
                        http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/...o-become-world

                        I'm talking to some people here on how to send the Royals players a bunch of gems so that the Giants can win the WS.
                        I'm proud my boy flew to Helsinki for the start of the WS just so he could do this. Talk about taking one for the team.

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                        • #522
                          Seriously? People (in KC) didn't know this?

                          http://online.wsj.com/articles/did-y...ngs-1413426602
                          Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
                          - Howard Aiken

                          Any sufficiently complicated platform contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a functional programming language.
                          - Variation on Greenspun's Tenth Rule

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                          • #523
                            Originally posted by falafel View Post
                            Your what??!
                            yeah, that's right, bitch, MY O's.
                            Dio perdona tante cose per un’opera di misericordia
                            God forgives many things for an act of mercy
                            Alessandro Manzoni

                            Knock it off. This board has enough problems without a dose of middle-age lechery.

                            pelagius

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                            • #524
                              Originally posted by mpfunk View Post
                              The playoffs are exciting. Also, there is a long tradition of having playoffs in MLB.
                              Actually, the playoffs (as opposed to the best regular season team from both leagues facing off in the World Series) isn't that old. The League Championship Series only goes back to 1969 and the Divisional Series and Wild Card teams only go back to 1994. That's not all that old considering the long history of baseball.
                              Dio perdona tante cose per un’opera di misericordia
                              God forgives many things for an act of mercy
                              Alessandro Manzoni

                              Knock it off. This board has enough problems without a dose of middle-age lechery.

                              pelagius

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                              • #525
                                http://www.unboxxed.com/an-open-letter-to-kansas-city/
                                Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
                                - Howard Aiken

                                Any sufficiently complicated platform contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a functional programming language.
                                - Variation on Greenspun's Tenth Rule

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