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are not only worse, they are significantly worse than every other team that made the playoffs. Their records are at least 5 games worse than all of them. The Baseball playoff system is flawed. They played for 6 mos. trying to establish a peckng order and the 10th and 11th best teams in Baseball are in the WS.
10th and 11th! The Tigers were not even a top 10 team in a sport with only 30 teams!

Maybe I'm too much of a purist, but I don't like the regular seaxon getting trashed like this.
 
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WesternKyVol said:
are not only worse, they are significantly worse than every other team that made the playoffs. Their records are at least 5 games worse than all of them. The Baseball playoff system is flawed. They played for 6 mos. trying to establish a peckng order and the 10th and 11th best teams in Baseball are in the WS.
10th and 11th! The Tigers were not even a top 10 team in a sport with only 30 teams!

Maybe I'm too much of a purist, but I don't like the regular seaxon getting trashed like this.
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Sour Grapes
 
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mad4vols said:
Sour Grapes
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Bull. In my world the Braves would not have made the playoff this year. Nats-Reds in a 9 game series; Yankees vs A's in a 9 game series.

But at least if the Braves had made it then a somewhat dominating team from the regular season would have been there. As for the Tigers, they only outscored their opponents by 52 runs over a 162 game season. That smacks of average, not a World Championship club.
 
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So how do you fix it? Take the top two record from each league and just play a World Series? That's boring.

That's the nature of sports that crown their champion through a playoff system. NCAA basketball tournament, NBA playoffs, Super Bowl, etc all have had times where the best teams didn't play for the championship and/or win it.
 
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The NY Giants were a couple of plays away from not making the playoffs last year and went on to win the Superbowl.
 
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Haha I LOVE it. Please keep posting Braves fans. The only thing that would be better is if some Reds fans joined in.

Enough butt hurt to go around.
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Baseball is unique in that the best team only wins about 60% of the time. It's closer to 80 in basketball and 90 in football.
 
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#1ArencibiaFan said:
So how do you fix it? Take the top two record from each league and just play a World Series? That's boring.

That's the nature of sports that crown their champion through a playoff system. NCAA basketball tournament, NBA playoffs, Super Bowl, etc all have had times where the best teams didn't play for the championship and/or win it.
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The current format is certainly more entertaining but if we're talking best way to determine a champion, then having only a World Series would be the best method IMO. Maybe lcs but 162 games ought to be enough to determine the two best teams in baseball.
 
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WesternKyVol said:
are not only worse, they are significantly worse than every other team that made the playoffs. Their records are at least 5 games worse than all of them. The Baseball playoff system is flawed. They played for 6 mos. trying to establish a peckng order and the 10th and 11th best teams in Baseball are in the WS.
10th and 11th! The Tigers were not even a top 10 team in a sport with only 30 teams!

Maybe I'm too much of a purist, but I don't like the regular seaxon getting trashed like this.
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Sniff sniff my team didn't make it so we need to change the rules...
Haha I LOVE this.

Don't worry, spring is just around the corner.
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How about we get the NCAA to change the rules for football also and maybe then we can win some games.

Haha
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How's Selig's dick taste Beef? OP is right in one sense, the one game playoff is ****ing garbage. At least the Tigers somewhat earned it by winning their division and beating some teams. The Cards won a coin flip.
 
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emainvol said:
How's Selig's dick taste Beef? OP is right in one sense, the one game playoff is ****ing garbage. At least the Tigers somewhat earned it by winning their division and beating some teams. The Cards won a coin flip.
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I don't like the 1 game playoff. But the added WC team has been good for MLB. I guess if you're a classless Braves fan not so much...
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milohimself said:
The current format is certainly more entertaining but if we're talking best way to determine a champion, then having only a World Series would be the best method IMO. Maybe lcs but 162 games ought to be enough to determine the two best teams in baseball.
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Bingo
 
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milohimself said:
The current format is certainly more entertaining but if we're talking best way to determine a champion, then having only a World Series would be the best method IMO. Maybe lcs but 162 games ought to be enough to determine the two best teams in baseball.
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That's what I said. Any playoff system will have flawed winners eventually. That's why its funny people want a college football playoff system yet complain win teams like the NY Giants, Cardinals, etc win playoff championships.
 
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I keep going back to soccer/football, but a big reason why I've taken such a liking to it is that everybody plays everybody else home and away, then whoever does the best from that is the champion. I love it. It almost makes too much sense.
 
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This topic comes up every year in baseball. You just have to accept the fact that playoffs produce random results with the influence of luck more often than not. It's not going to change.
 
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#1ArencibiaFan said:
That's what I said. Any playoff system will have flawed winners eventually. That's why its funny people want a college football playoff system yet complain win teams like the NY Giants, Cardinals, etc win playoff championships.
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I'm a fan of playoffs. The best time in sports is when it's playoff time. NCAA tourney, NFL playoffs, NBA playoffs and yes the MLB playoffs. Playoffs add pressure and if a team can't handle pressure then they're not champions. Period
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milohimself said:
I keep going back to soccer/football, but a big reason why I've taken such a liking to it is that everybody plays everybody else home and away, then whoever does the best from that is the champion. I love it. It almost makes too much sense.
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IDK how soccer works, but American sport fans love postseason games and there is no way that can be taken away.
 
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milohimself said:
I keep going back to soccer/football, but a big reason why I've taken such a liking to it is that everybody plays everybody else home and away, then whoever does the best from that is the champion. I love it. It almost makes too much sense.
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Yet another reason soccer will never be popular in the USA and Euro trash loves it.
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