Baseball Playoffs

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Getting a week off in baseball is not an advantage like football.

Good point then how about making all series best of 7.

[Bigsmc]

Originally Posted by jms62

Good point then how about making all series best of 7.

Great idea, if they shorten the regular season.

They would be fast approaching that timeless tradition of the Thanksgiving Day World Series if they extend the first series to 7 games or add another Wild Card team like some suggest.

I'm personally tired of seeing snowflakes in the World Series. Baseball is an outdoor game, but I like to see baseball at it's best, not battling the elements as well as your opponent.

[horseofcourse]

A guy who pitches 216 innings with a 2.83 ERA and a WHIP of 1.06 was a great starting pitcher (this year). I don't think anything I've stated is outrageous at all. No, he's nowhere near Cliff Lee career wise at this point or even close I will admit that...but for this year the number of starting pitchers in MLB better than him is a single digit number. Until they got Doug Fister the Tigers were playing about even with Cleveland a few games above .500. They got Doug Fister and they ended up with 95 wins. It is what it is. You can throw who it came against around but over 30 starts 216 innings, 2.83 ERA, 1.06 WHIP is one full season of great pitching. He is a great pitcher this year. And he did the job in game 5 against the Yankees too.

[3kings]

The TV executives have to be cringing after the results of the last few days. Only one decent sized market remaining(Dallas/FWorth) and no teams with national followings. All time low playoff and World Series ratings?

[Bigsmc]

Originally Posted by 3kings

The TV executives have to be cringing after the results of the last few days. Only one decent sized market remaining(Dallas/FWorth) and no teams with national followings. All time low playoff and World Series ratings?

Baseball has to be cringing too. They need ratings for bigger TV contracts.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

Baseball has to be cringing too. They need ratings for bigger TV contracts.

I'm having a hard time working up much sympathy

[Bigsmc]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I'm having a hard time working up much sympathy

I have no sympathy for them. Just pointing out that MLB themselves cannot be thrilled with no NY, Boston, Philly or LA in the playoffs/WS.

[clyde]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

Great idea, if they shorten the regular season.

They would be fast approaching that timeless tradition of the Thanksgiving Day World Series if they extend the first series to 7 games or add another Wild Card team like some suggest.

I'm personally tired of seeing snowflakes in the World Series. Baseball is an outdoor game, but I like to see baseball at it's best, not battling the elements as well as your opponent.

!!!!OOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[slotdirt]

Serious squeeze on Verlander tonight. No way he throws that 2-0 pitch to Cruz if he gets a single call earlier in the at-bat. Brooks baseball.net says he had nine strikes called balls and zero balls called strikes. That was a concerted effort by Tim Welke considering he started calling virtually every pitch a strike after the second rain delay. Hopefully ther is mor consistency from behind the plate for the rest of the series.

[wiphan]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Let's go Crew!
Hopefully Markum can figure it out tonight and the boys can keep it rolling. Life doesn't get much better in WI. Perfect weather, October baseball with the roof open. Braun is showing the world just how good he is. Let's go Brewers!!

[slotdirt]

Someone please stick a fork in the Tigers. At the going rate, they'll have Bubba Trammell and Bobby Higginson playing in the corners by the end of the week.

[slotdirt]

What are those goiters on Alexi Ogando's face? That man makes big Gheorghe Muresan look pretty.