Defend the Indefensible - The Wild Card [aka BUSH LEAGUE: Bush's Baseball Boners]

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giving you yet another meaningless NYY-BOS race this year

but as a trade-off you get a fantastic 5-team Ntl League wild card race.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link

B-b-but only East coast races matter!

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 03:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Logically, probably, you should wait till you're 28 to vote."

WTF is logical about that??

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link

>but as a trade-off you get a fantastic 5-team Ntl League wild card race. <

Yeah, a battle of attrition among 4 or 5 massively flawed .550 teams, as opposed to a loser-goes-home showdown between a pair of .600 blood rivals. I know which I prefer.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

How about another Wild Card World Series?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link

ok since it's at least the second time i've seen it brought up: why does this matter? cuz it proves the wild card works or something? it's not like the sox (or stros, even) were underdogs here.

― John (jdahlem), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

As I mentioned above, if they did away with five-game series, you'd get fewer wild-card teams going to the series, since a seven-gamer reduces the chances of an upset by a flawed team.

Lately, the wild-card winners have been quite good though (which can't be said for the teams in the wild-card races we were complaining about when this thread was started.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I see pros and cons. The biggest con is that it "makes a mockery" of the regular season schedule, even though MLB is far from being the joke that hockey and basketball are. The biggest pro is that it gives hope to teams that toil in perenially dominated divisions like the East ones.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it's just the five-game series that makes a mockery of the regular season schedule.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

We should just do away with the regular season then.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 21 October 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

Otm

― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link

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