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Jaydc:
Well thats another one of my problems with baseballl,I think 8 teams should make it from each league or in the very least 6 from each league.
The Come Up Shuffle:
--- Quote from: Jaydc didnt do it,that bitch is lying. on May 28, 2010, 05:44:20 PM ---You did in fact misread.Seven teams have missed the playoffs,four more teams have made one appearance and five teams have only made two.Thats 16 teams over ten years with a grand total of 6 appearances between them.Like I said,that half the league basically being feeder teams.
And what I mean by loyalty is,players are loyal to their teams they dont jump ship at the first chance they get offered a big contract at another team.
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I disagree with your entire assessment in regards to the number of teams that have made the playoffs as a good argument about the lack of parity in Baseball. If anything I think it speaks volumes that Baseball is more competitive than other sports. Look at the NBA. More than half the league makes the playoffs. Most people recognize the regular season and 99% of the time the first round of the playoffs means jack shit. In NHL more than half the league makes the playoffs and they had to implement that stupid point system they have now to even things out some. Look at the list of World Series winners in the past 10 years. It consist of 8 different teams. Yes Baseball has its economic issues but the lack of a cap is hardly the problem IMO.
NFL players don't have the freedom to do what MLB players do. The MLBPA is the most powerful union in the United States. If NFL players had that type of freedom and guaranteed contracts best believe they would jump ship to the team offering the most money. But there own union doesn't even look out for there best interest. NFL players are well payed slaves and shit is about to hit the fan in regards to that.
The Come Up Shuffle:
--- Quote from: Jaydc didnt do it,that bitch is lying. on May 28, 2010, 06:06:12 PM ---Well thats another one of my problems with baseballl,I think 8 teams should make it from each league or in the very least 6 from each league.
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And that completely cheapens the regular season and the playoffs. The great thing about Baseball is so few teams make the playoffs thus the regular season actually means something. Hell look at the Mets. In 99 they need an extra game against the Reds to decide the Wild Card winner. In 07 they were in first place from opening day until the last game of the season. You don't see that in Basketball and Hockey.
Jaydc:
Yes but the american league its almost a given that red sox and yankees are making it.So its basically two spots up for grabs.How is that exciting or making the longest regular season of all sports meaningful?Look at hockey,the 7th and 8th seeds in the east were in the finals for their conference.Frankly,only having four teams just makes it uninteresting.Thats why baseball has teams with the longest droughts in professional sports of not making the playoffs.how is that good for the league at all when half the cities never get to see their teams play in meaningful games?
The Come Up Shuffle:
--- Quote from: Jaydc didnt do it,that bitch is lying. on May 28, 2010, 07:00:11 PM ---Yes but the american league its almost a given that red sox and yankees are making it.So its basically two spots up for grabs.How is that exciting or making the longest regular season of all sports meaningful?Look at hockey,the 7th and 8th seeds in the east were in the finals for their conference.Frankly,only having four teams just makes it uninteresting.Thats why baseball has teams with the longest droughts in professional sports of not making the playoffs.how is that good for the league at all when half the cities never get to see their teams play in meaningful games?
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I don't see how it isn't fair when 23 teams have made the playoffs in the past 10 years in a sport where only 8 teams make the playoffs. And if you want to go with well only making the playoffs once in 10 years doesn't count 19 teams still made the playoffs 2 times. And of the teams that have only made the playoffs once in 10 years one of those teams won the World Series. You have two other teams that made the World Series one of which has the best record in Baseball right now. I don't understand this whole it's not interesting for fans of other teams. After this season my Mets will be one of those teams that has only made the playoffs once in the past 10 years and you know what, they have played plenty of meaningful Baseball during that time despite only making the playoffs once. Just because a team doesn't make the playoffs doesn't mean it isn't playing meaningful games. Bottom line is your view is extremely distorted because the Jays are the unluckiest team in Baseball. They have fielded a decent team the past few years but have to share a division with the Sox and Yanks. It's not fair but it's life But somehow the Rays made the playoffs in 08 and are dominating this year with an even smaller payroll than the Jays. And if you look at teams with long droughts minus the Jays how many of them have droughts because they are just horribly horribly run. Teams like the Pirates and Royals can spend like the Yanks and they would still be bottom feeders because they know how to do anything whatsoever. And like I said before, you can implement a cap but that means big market teams will just invest that much more into player development, the draft, and international free agents. And for these teams that spend a lot of money and have prolonged success, the foundation of that success was the development of home grown talent.
And you bring up the NHL but in the NHL and the NBA how often do the 7 and 8 seeds meet in the conference finals ? It's rare, lets not act like this is a common thing.
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