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Coop always makes the call. I have always thought that was standard, that the pitching coach makes the call.
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Yeah, the camera always shows Coop on the phone to the bullpen, but the more important question is who decides which pitchers are going to start getting ready? Does Robin tell him who to get started, or is it Coop's decision?
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In Boston, Francona always made the call. Pretty sure Mike Scoscia always makes the call in LA. If memory serves me right, I think LaRussa makes the call.
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Does any team set out to defend their wild card title? The only reason baseball has a wild card is that it has two major leagues with three divisions each. You need another team in each league to have two playoff rounds. The only penalty for a team that collapses at the end of the season shouldn't be a bad seed, especially with seeding based on wins and losses having so little meaning in major league baseball. I think setting up a play-in game for the two best teams that didn't win anything is a better way to run a wild card. The baseball season means something. If you are going to have a wild card, don't let the team coast into the postseaon as the Braves and Rangers seemed to be doing. The wild card has been around so long that younger fans have lost perspective. |
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And they could go all the way again because of one of the worst calls I have ever seen
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No offense ,but did you watch the end of the season ? That was the very definition of a choke job. Couldn't buy a hit with runners in scoring position, got owned by the Royals. It HAS to be one of the bigger chokes in Sox history, and that is saying something, because just in the past 15 years there have been several.
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Karma is biting the Nats in the butt for that insane benching of Strasburg. Go Cards. The Nats gave the baseball gods the middle finger basically and now they must pay.
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Teams who haven't earned their way into the baseball postseason by winning a division over 162 games over six months can be competitive and can win. Expand the postseason and you expand the possibilities that a team that didn't earn the right to compete for the championship. The NCAA basketball championship has expanded to the point where the champion is more of a tournament champion than a season champion of the sport, as it was when only conference champions and strongest independents were competing. I don't know of any sport where a team has won a championship after achieving a regular season .500-or-less record, but the way sports open up their championship playoffs, it is bound to happen. At least the Cardinals had to earn the wild card spot by winning a play-in game. The Nationals may end up winning the series, but it is looking like it was the Cardinals' good fortune to go up against a team with management that doesn't seem to care about winning a championship. |
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The Browns won a divisional title one year with a record of 8-8 and in 1994 at the time the labor impasse stopped games the Rangers were in 1st place in the Western Division despite being 10 games under .500.
Had they played the rest of the final six weeks it's very doubtful Texas could have won enough to finish over .500 (all the other teams were even worse in the standings...) So it probably would have happened in baseball for the first time. Lip |
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No doubt. A 98 win team minus its ace pitcher may as well be an 88 win team.
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Buck Showalter made all the calls to the bullpen in the Yankee series. I saw Girardi make at least 2 so I suppose he makes the Yankee calls
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More recently, the Chargers in 2008 and Denver in 2011 both won divisions at 8-8. Seatle won their division at 7-9 in 2010. All three of those teams ended up winning a playoff game. |
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JDM:
The 1994 reference was in regards to the Rangers. Lip |
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