OT - I'm bored, Part Pangos & Bell!

[evolver115]

Umps need to be removed from the task of calling balls and strikes. That is all.

And miss gems like this!?!

 

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Thanks to Crush Davis for that 9th inning homer against the Yanks Tueaday night.

And another dinger last night

 

[Nasty_Magician]

 

[evolver115]

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If it's a NLCS between the Mets and Bucs, I'd be all right with that. I actually miss playing the Mets more often. I hate the NLC.

 

[pixburgher66]

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If it's a NLCS between the Mets and Bucs, I'd be all right with that. I actually miss playing the Mets more often. I hate the NLC.

Yeah, I'd gladly take playing the Mets 15 times a year...

 

[dare2be]

Unfortunately, with the top 3 teams in the NL likely all coming from the central, 2 of those 3 teams will not even get to play in the NLCS.

 

[dash]

Biggest game of the season to date for the Jays and Mother Nature looks to intervene...

Jays, Yankees in danger of rainout

 

[pixburgher66]

Unfortunately, with the top 3 teams in the NL likely all coming from the central, 2 of those 3 teams will not even get to play in the NLCS.

Second best record in baseball, fourth "seed" in a play in game. Baseball has to change something about that. Sorry. Winning your mediocre division shouldn't equal a better playoff position. That goes for all sports. Basketball is finally doing that, other sports should follow. We had it in the NFL last year, with the Panthers making the postseason. Have it this year in MLB with the NLC. Not only do the records speak for it (I mean, the Cubs are getting hosed too. They have the fourth best record in all of baseball and sit as the last team in), but look at the strength of schedule too. The Cubs/Pirates have to play each other and the Cardinals, three of the best teams in all of baseball, have 38 (nearly 25%) games total against two of the OTHER best teams in baseball, and are essentially punished for it. Yes, that also means those teams have nearly 25% of their games against the Brewers and Reds, but when you look at the NL East with the Marlins, Phillies, and Braves, it was a two horse race. NL West has Rockies, DBacks, Padres, and the Giants in an odd year (I mean, come on). This is pretty much the culmination of my frustration, but it's very true that the Cubs/Pirates are getting punished for being in the same division, even though that really just means they have a tougher schedule.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Biggest game of the season to date for the Jays and Mother Nature looks to intervene...

Jays, Yankees in danger of rainout

Supposed to rain all weekend in NYC, too. This could get interesting.

 

[esls79]

Get rid of the wild cards all together. Go back to an AL and NL West and East with the winners playing in the LCS. I'd rather see fan bases crying they won 98 games and didn't make the playoffs than saying we've got the third best winning percentage in the majors but play in the toughest division and it's not fair we have a one game playoff when a crappy division winner with an inferrior record gets a "bye".

Baseball, like life, was invented to be unfair.

 

[dash]

I'd rather see fan bases crying they won 98 games and didn't make the playoffs than saying we've got the third best winning percentage in the majors but play in the toughest division and it's not fair we have a one game playoff when a crappy division winner with an inferrior record gets a "bye".

 

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Didn't the Twins win an AL division title with 85 wins one season? I think that same team went on to win the World Series.

 

[Comeds]

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[Comeds]

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Are you thinking what I'm thinking? SportsHoopla Gif Movie Playhouse? An entire movie presented in Gif form! No? Me neither.

 

[dash]

I miss Johnny Carson with his Tea Time Movie skits, comeds.

/Most of the youngsters thinking "Who's Johnny Carson?"

 

[dash]

Jays - Yanks rained out, double dip on Saturday (weather permitting).

 

[KennyBanyeah]

I miss Johnny Carson with his Tea Time Movie skits, comeds.

/Most of the youngsters thinking "Who's Johnny Carson?"

Didn't he get traded for Gretzky?

 

[dash]

Didn't he get traded for Gretzky?

You got it, Kenny. The football stadium in Calgary was named after his sidekick Ed McMahon.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

Man.. Alberta has such a rich history!!

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

I think you mean Carson Daly.