MLB Off-Topic

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by DrJones

I'd much prefer each league to have 2 divisions of 8 teams: the 2 division winners get 1st round byes and the 4 WC play 3-vs-6 and 4-vs-5 best-of-3 series to advance to the LDS. 56 intradivision games (7x8) 56 interdivision games (8x7) 48 interleague games (16x3) ...or something to that effect. It'd make winning your division more important and would prevent 1994 AL West scenarios. With 8 4-team divisions, it'd only be a matter of time before sub-.500 clubs made the postseason, and I'd rather they didn't.

I think I did something like this before where if you divided up the current teams into 8 team divisions, depending on where the expansion teams end up, you could actually have 2 fully eastern time zone divisions, 1 fully* pacific time zone division, and 1 fully* central time zone division.

The * being the Rockies (depending which one they end up in), but other than them, the other 31 teams would be fine.

That actually seems more realistic if they could pull that off. Travel isn't as much an issue anymore, it's more so the timezones. Having a team like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit and so on being in an eastern timezone division, and a team like Rangers, Astros being in a central timezone division (while As/Mariners/Angels don't have to have a team in their division 2 hours time difference) I'm sure would be much better too in terms of tv ratings locally and nationally.

Only thing which would be unpopular among fans is that this format requires an AL/NL merger. So your league is just 4 divisions. Division winners make playoffs and get BYEs while the next 8 best regardless of division are the 1-8WC teams (in a 3 game series like what was said), winners of those advance to LDS against the respective division winners (which means reseeding in this case based on who wins the WC games).

[DrJones]

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...-game-athletes

Almost 20 years later, and ESPN is still using me to farm for clicks!
I really should've found a way to monetize this.

[l3ulvl]

Quote: Originally Posted by DrJones

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...-game-athletes Almost 20 years later, and ESPN is still using me to farm for clicks! I really should've found a way to monetize this.

[DrJones]

Quote: Originally Posted by l3ulvl

Guilty as charged.

[Majingir]

https://twitter.com/BlueJays/status/...PZwkX7omg&s=19

It's been 20 years!?

For all the sluggers they've had since, the closest we've ever come to this was the Edwin hat trick game (which was especially fun because it was during a playoff push and fans were going crazy with hats)

[Speedy]

Only 3 pitchers have over 200 IP currently.

Man, baseball has changed.

[Jr.]

Quote: Originally Posted by Speedy

Only 3 pitchers have over 200 IP currently. Man, baseball has changed.

I saw something last week that the Giants are only going to have 1 pitcher qualify by innings count this year.

I'm sure there are some other teams like that, too. But that kinda blew my mind

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[Picci]

It was 50 years ago yesterday, I remember watching as a kid Willie Mays say good bye to America.


Baseball Icon Willie Mays Speaks on His Night in 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh9woGdCYdc