chirorob Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 5 best records in MLB are out of the playoffs. The WS will have two teams with at most, 90 wins. Keep expanding the playoffs, and you have made the regular season far less important. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetsfan80 Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 Kinda been like this for a while now, but this year was especially egregious. Just shorten the regular season back to 154, expand the playoffs to 16 teams with all 7-game series and be done with it. Best teams ought to be able to rise to the top when you need to beat them 4x to advance. I get that that just turns the MLB postseason into the NBA but who gives a f**k? You simply can’t have teams wait around for a week to start their postseason after playing nearly every day for 6 months. It doesn’t work. Everybody has to start at the same time or close to it. At least under a 16-team format everybody would be somewhat happy. More money for MLB with less stupid pointless regular season games. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuscanyTile2 Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 On 10/18/2023 at 8:51 AM, chirorob said: 5 best records in MLB are out of the playoffs. The WS will have two teams with at most, 90 wins. Keep expanding the playoffs, and you have made the regular season far less important. I'm glad this is happening. The baseball playoffs are a joke now. They're trying to make it like other sports where there are 4 rounds of playoffs. If they're going to make teams play 162 games, they should matter a LOT. Sadly, it's been greatly devalued. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
section314 Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 Why would you ever pitch to Harper with Alec Bohm hitting behind him? Seems like all the guy does is pop up, strike out or hit into DP’s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lith Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 11 hours ago, TuscanyTile2 said: I'm glad this is happening. The baseball playoffs are a joke now. They're trying to make it like other sports where there are 4 rounds of playoffs. If they're going to make teams play 162 games, they should matter a LOT. Sadly, it's been greatly devalued. They added the extra round of playoffs as a money grab. And it has totally backfired. So now, instead of Dodgers-Braves LCS which probably would have drawn great ratings (great for baseball at least), we end up with Phillies-Dbacks, and nobody is watching. Very few post season games have even been competitive. Top 2 seeds get almost a week off until their first playoff game. They are being asked to play meaningful games after a weeks layoff against a wild card team or lesser Division Champ that has been battle tested down the stretch. If you need a game or two to work off the rust after a layoff, you may already have your backs to the wall by the time you are ready to play. Three Division Champs and one wild card worked fine. And gave us much better postseason matchups. Baseball sucks these days. I barely recognize the game I used to love. 2 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuscanyTile2 Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 1 hour ago, Lith said: They added the extra round of playoffs as a money grab. And it has totally backfired. So now, instead of Dodgers-Braves LCS which probably would have drawn great ratings (great for baseball at least), we end up with Phillies-Dbacks, and nobody is watching. Very few post season games have even been competitive. Top 2 seeds get almost a week off until their first playoff game. They are being asked to play meaningful games after a weeks layoff against a wild card team or lesser Division Champ that has been battle tested down the stretch. If you need a game or two to work off the rust after a layoff, you may already have your backs to the wall by the time you are ready to play. Three Division Champs and one wild card worked fine. And gave us much better postseason matchups. Baseball sucks these days. I barely recognize the game I used to love. This. I haven't even been able to bring myself to watch it at all this postseason (I just want the Phillies to be eliminated and then I don't care who wins). It feels like their goal was to be able to have one of these: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
section314 Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 17 hours ago, Lith said: They added the extra round of playoffs as a money grab. And it has totally backfired. So now, instead of Dodgers-Braves LCS which probably would have drawn great ratings (great for baseball at least), we end up with Phillies-Dbacks, and nobody is watching. Very few post season games have even been competitive. Top 2 seeds get almost a week off until their first playoff game. They are being asked to play meaningful games after a weeks layoff against a wild card team or lesser Division Champ that has been battle tested down the stretch. If you need a game or two to work off the rust after a layoff, you may already have your backs to the wall by the time you are ready to play. Three Division Champs and one wild card worked fine. And gave us much better postseason matchups. Baseball sucks these days. I barely recognize the game I used to love. Well said. Only thing I’ll add is wildcard team gets one home game in a best of 5 and only two in a best of 7. That will definitely make the regular season count. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chirorob Posted October 23, 2023 Author Share Posted October 23, 2023 5 hours ago, section314 said: Well said. Only thing I’ll add is wildcard team gets one home game in a best of 5 and only two in a best of 7. That will definitely make the regular season count. Rangers Vs Astros. Road team won the first 6 games of the series. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
section314 Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 33 minutes ago, chirorob said: Rangers Vs Astros. Road team won the first 6 games of the series. Fair point, but that is definitely not the norm. You should be rewarded for winning you division, not being an also ran. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lith Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 I hope MLB is happy with their World Series, pitting the 13th best team in baseball against a team tied for 6th. I can't imagine how bad ratings will be. I know that I won't be watching. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetsfan80 Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 1 hour ago, Lith said: I hope MLB is happy with their World Series, pitting the 13th best team in baseball against a team tied for 6th. I can't imagine how bad ratings will be. I know that I won't be watching. Rangers were somewhat worthy, having tied for their division title, but yeah, Dbacks making it (and yes, I know they have several solid young players) was pretty pathetic out of the NL. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Thornburgh Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 Still have to make the playoffs. Gio and DJ are enjoying that golf course right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
section314 Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 On 10/25/2023 at 12:18 PM, Jetsfan80 said: Rangers were somewhat worthy, having tied for their division title, but yeah, Dbacks making it (and yes, I know they have several solid young players) was pretty pathetic out of the NL. The ratings proved your point…. lowest rated WS ever. Nobody cared to watch another JV WS. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustEndTheSuffering Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 Boring games too with very few memorable moments other than when Texas tied it in the 9th and then walked it off. A lot of the games weren't even close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PS17 Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 Baseball is extremely broken. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Thornburgh Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Until the Yankees can figure out how to stop sucking the tv ratings will continue to be ass. the top rated regular season game of the past 20 years was the Yankees/White Sox game in the field of dreams- and it was on cable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bicketybam Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Until the Yankees can figure out how to stop sucking the tv ratings will continue to be ass. the top rated regular season game of the past 20 years was the Yankees/White Sox game in the field of dreams- and it was on cableAnother phenomenal post. You are the mailman because to always deliver! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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