The Atlanta Braves

[mr.checkerboards]

 

[zjcvols]

60 game season with 16 team playoff is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard

 

[zjcvols]

This might be the dumbest decision in sports history. What were the Saints thinking?

 

[Kingston Vol]

60 game season with 16 team playoff is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard

Mariners are definitely going to make it.

 

[Wickman]

Atlanta Vol saying an off field issue is about to come up

 

[TBrown]

Atlanta Vol saying an off field issue is about to come up

Noice

 

[TBrown]

Lol If they counter for 5 more games and prolong this I may lose it. They’ve been crying for full prorated salary, now play ball

Canceled MLB TV this morning

 

[TBrown]

60 game season with 16 team playoff is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard

Might as well go full weekend ball - pool play, seed em, double elim

See who the real men are fighting through the losers bracket

 

[TBrown]

We are 2 weeks from July and they aren’t close. I am having serious doubts for the first time.

Good news is you won’t lose much when you have to create a new handle

 

[Blake25p]

A WS caliber team/teams will miss the playoffs if a 60 game season is played. Hopefully it’s not the Braves.

 

[Notorious B.E.N]

A WS caliber team/teams will miss the playoffs if a 60 game season is played. Hopefully it’s not the Braves.

Why couldn't this **** happen last year??

 

[zjcvols]

Watching 2007 ALDS Yanks vs Cleveland and totally forgot how big a deal Joba Chamberlain was

 

[zjcvols]

Might as well go full weekend ball - pool play, seed em, double elim

See who the real men are fighting through the losers bracket

Seriously. A 16 team playoff is absurd. How the hell they gonna finish that in October have a bunch of play in games for lower seeds?

 

[zjcvols]

Might get flack for this but between baseball and the NBA’s crazy bubble plan, along with COVID cases rising again. I’m almost just ready to have them say “**** it” and not have sports until football in September. Idk if they’re gonna be able to do all these sports in a month.

 

[zjcvols]

Oh and the DH is basically permanent now

 

[Kingston Vol]

I wonder if we’re going to see 4 man rotations as a result of this or some similar change.

Would also guess we’re gonna see Markakis and Ender out there every day with Ozuna and Riley DHing a lot.

 

[Kingston Vol]

And the prospect thing is so fascinating. We’ve got a ton of pitchers who needed big league innings this year. Do we force feed them some so they’re not wasted for 12 months or is every game of such importance that you can’t?

 

[AV_12]

Can’t waste outings.

 

[AV_12]

Need the best 4 imo, depending on schedule

 

[TheColdVolTruth]

Watching 2007 ALDS Yanks vs Cleveland and totally forgot how big a deal Joba Chamberlain was

He was incredible all year until that biblical swarm of gnats descended on the pitcher's mound in Cleveland. He was never the same after that game.

 

[YankeeVol]

He was incredible all year until that biblical swarm of gnats descended on the pitcher's mound in Cleveland. He was never the same after that game.

That was just so damn bizarre

 

[TBrown]

Need the best 4 imo, depending on schedule

Soroka-Max-Newk-Folty

Short leash for everyone IYAM

 

[bleedorange0037]

Might get flack for this but between baseball and the NBA’s crazy bubble plan, along with COVID cases rising again. I’m almost just ready to have them say “**** it” and not have sports until football in September. Idk if they’re gonna be able to do all these sports in a month.

Perfectly reasonable IMO. It’s basically just them trying to do whatever they have to in order to make sure they honor their TV contracts so they can collect that money, competitive integrity be damned. Obviously any championships won under any of these plans will come along with a MASSIVE asterisk. Plus, like you mentioned, it might be safer to give COVID a little more time to hopefully run it’s course.

 

[Florida Stanley]

Might get flack for this but between baseball and the NBA’s crazy bubble plan, along with COVID cases rising again. I’m almost just ready to have them say “**** it” and not have sports until football in September. Idk if they’re gonna be able to do all these sports in a month.

What the duck

 

[TBrown]

Perfectly reasonable IMO. It’s basically just them trying to do whatever they have to in order to make sure they honor their TV contracts so they can collect that money, competitive integrity be damned. Obviously any championships won under any of these plans will come along with a MASSIVE asterisk. Plus, like you mentioned, it might be safer to give COVID a little more time to hopefully run it’s course.

I agree with all in premise but I think you have a window to ramp up here before COVID punches again in November. Could be in the same boat come next March and you can’t go two years without baseball-basketball. I believe the Super Bowl is most in jeopardy.