Premier League agrees with you. And for many years in baseball, the second-place team in each league was just the first loser. You had to win the regular-season pennant to get to the World Series.
Home plate umpire in the Padres/Phillies game is making a huge case for robotic umps.
Any pitch within shouting distance of the plate is called a strike.
For me the magic number is 10. Each division winner and one wild card team per conference that plays the division winner with the worst record in the wild card round.
You mean the previous system with 2 wild cards per league that play against each other first?
Otherwise, each division winner plus 1 wild card is 4 teams per league
I agree.
You might wanna check your math, there are 4 divisions per conference in the NFL.
On the other hand, Premier League teams also have a race at the bottom to avoid relegation, and then there’s Champions League, which some of those teams compete in, which has no equivalent in a North American pro sport.
British footie has two additional leagues that also participate in the promotion/relegation scheme, as well as in the League and FA Cup elimination tournaments. And the top 5 teams in the Premier league qualify for European competition.
It all makes the American sporting arrangements look so bland.
Ah, I thought you meant MLB because of the thread. Never mind
Yeesh, back to back homers. Those Yankees relievers really might decide the series and not in a good way
The thread did swerve a bit off-topic for a moment.
I thought the MLB playoffs with 5 teams was perfect. Three division winners and 2 wild-card teams that played each other in a 1 game win-or-go-home playoff game. This wild card game produced some amazing outcomes, like the 2014 Royals/A’s game that KC won 9-8 in 12 innings.
Damn, Matt Carpenter did not come through.
Gawd, what a yawner. 6 runs scored with 5 on solo homers. Almost no action on the base baths.
There are too many teams in the playoffs.
i wonder how would one do the advancment/elegation thing in MLB…
What is that?
in British soccer they have like various leagues and depending on how the team does it moves up and down the various leagues using baseball as an example the top leagues are the national and the American and there’s AAA AA and A
a new team would start out in single A and if it won a championship or has a great record it would move up to double a or if a double A team lost 90 percent of their games it would move down to single-A
one of the more interesting aspects of it is when a basically beer league team makes it up to the top for a couple of seasons
Or a million-dollar team ends up in the dirt …
Ahh, gotcha. I don’t follow British soccer. Thanks for the explanation.
If you’re not familiar with it (and disregard if you are), those A, AA, and AAA teams are Minor League Baseball, or MiLB. The MiLB League does not play 162 games in the regular season, while MLB does. MiLB plays fewer games. And, there MiLB ballparks are much smaller. Single-A parks typically hold a few thousand, less than 10,000. The Single-A San Jose Giants play fewer than 70 games a season in a ballpark that holds 4,200.
Anyway that concept would be interesting to apply to MLB and MiLB together.
As much as I like the Carpenter story this year and and much fun as it has been, the LCS is not the place to get your timing back after an injury. Let Stanton DH and put Cabrera back in LF.