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After the Tigers stunk up the 2006 World Series, I didn't think they would do the same thing in the 2012 World Series. I was wrong, they were just as bad this year. Lets hope we have seen the last of them in the World Series.
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The season is a 7 month marathon, not 6. I'll just ask this: In a race, let's say the 500 meter... who is the best in that race? Is it the guy who crossed the finish line first? Or is it the guy who led the race for 90% of it, only to run out of gas at the end? After the winner crosses the line and wins the race, should we say, "Congrats, but the guy who led most of the way, and lost, was still better than you." The MLB season starts at Opening Day, at ends at the last out of the World Series. 30 teams start running. At one point, 20 are dead, and 10 are left to keep running toward that Finish Line. If you run out of gas, you are not the best. No way, no how. A long layoff is a pitiful excuse for losing. And the AL's superior regular season record against the NL may be outweighed by the NL's recent WS success over the AL. If an NL fan tells me "Haha, my league has won more WS than your league lately!", I won't respond with "But my league has won more regular season games!!!". That'd be asinine. The World Series is where it's at. Let NL fans have bragging rights. The AL doesn't dominate the NL. |
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And while the season is a marathon and the first 20 games needs to be taken as seriously as the last 20 games of a team in a pennant race with a 2 game lead, the reality is the playoffs are a crapshoot. In a short series anything can happen. Bad teams sweep good teams in 3-4 game series during the season. Teams with losing records have dominant records against teams with winning records (not very often). See KC vs Sox in 2012. So if the Sox won the World Series this year, can we still claim KC is the best team in baseball because they dominated the champions during the regular season? t To an extent, a short series is like flipping a coin. If it comes up heads 4 times in a row can I assume that heads is the dominant side? Or if an umpire blatantly blows a crucial call, like sale an obvious infield fly rule, and the team with the worse regular season record beats the team with the better record, is it safe to say the team with the worse record is better. Debate like this is what makes baseball great. It's like the Mike Trout vs Miguel Cabrera argument for MVP. Bottom line is SF are the champions and the rest of the teams went home as losers. Bob |
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So seven games between the same two teams carries the same amount of weight to you as the 252 interleague games played by every team in the league during the season. That logic makes zero sense.
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I'm not sure you can any broad judgements about the standing of the leagues or even the teams involved based on 4 games in which 2 ended 2-0 and a third went into extra innings.
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I'd feel like a fool if I told an NL fan that AL is dominant. We may pitter patter them with jabs all reg season long, but in the WS, they deliver the massive right hook. |
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I mean, for arguments sake, if the Sox got to play in the NL how many games would they have won this season? 100? 110? 120? I'm being conservative.
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I will never understand why this is a thing. Unless it's your team winning the WS, who cares? If you(communal sense, not you personally) honestly think it matters what league is "better" in order to justify your fandom or put yourself above others......well that's just sad IMO. It's like the Ole Miss fans(or any bottom dwelling SEC team of recent) who think they're superior because Alabama won the NC last year. Who cares? Your team sucks out loud, what some better regional team did is irrelevant.
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Yes, we have to take into account the performance of the entire league, with considerable weight given to the World Series. What does it say about our league if our best gets thumped by their best? Enough to negate a lot of the reg season accomplishments. The NL has claimed baseball's top prize 4 of the past 5 seasons. AL has done well in the reg season, but can't claim dominance without more WS trophies. And it's extremely disingenuous to call the pennant winners 3rd and 7th best. They had the 3rd and 7th best regular season records. That's it. But then they claimed the prize that the rest of us were clamoring for. They were better. |
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The playoffs are not about luck, they are about mettle, and they're not "just a tourney", they define MLB for that given year. Really, you're gonna compare a Astros-Sox regular season series to a playoff series? Do you follow sports at all? Read the race analogy, that's usually told to newcomers to the game. |
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