Posted on 10/01/2005 4:10:51 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
You've been happy seeing your team get their tomahawk chopping asses kicked in in the playoffs in 13 of those 14 division-winning years? (Some) Braves' fans are evidently easy to please.
Trajan88; Plano (Texas) Yankees #23
Can you guarantee 100% that none of the Sox players were clean in the past, clean now?
Trajan88; Plano (Texas) Yankee #23
I was interested and checked out box scores and saw all the red, white and blue bunting and special logos painted on the field and all that goes with it.
As I told the other guy...we'll just have to agree to disagree.
I would not trade places with any sports fan since 1991.
The first three years (ancient history) absolutely sucked, but '95 and '97 sucked no more and no less than the typical Braves' year -- we made the playoffs and then lost.
In the last ten years the Yanks have made the playoffs ten times and have one four championship while the Braves have made the playoffs 10 times and won one championship.
Braves' fans the more satisfied customers? lol...please.
one = won
Even if Boston wins the regular-season finale against the Yankees on Sunday to draw back into a tie, both teams would go to the playoffs with New York being declared division champion after winning the season series against the Red Sox 10-8.
My qusetion is:
Since when? When did all this NFL type tie breaker crap start? Was there a rule change at the beginning of the season or has it always been this way? I thought if two teams finished the season at the top of the division with identical records, there would be a one game playoff, as there was in 1978. In 1978, at the end of the season, the Red Sox and the Yankes had identical records of 99 wins and 63 losses. There was a one game playoff between the two teams which the Yankes won to finish one game up with a record of 100 wins and 63 losses (as opposed to 99 and 64 for the Red Sox.) Why weren't the Yankees declared the winners that season before the playoff game? They'd beaten the Red Sox in the season series 9 to 7.
Why this year and not in 1978? When was this changed? Anyone know? I'm clueless. And pissed. I wanted the Yankees to be the ones to fall short and have to go to Chicago.
I think Bonds is a bum and his stats should be stricken from the record. I am thrilled that he's never won any championships.
Nobody remembers the team with the best regular season record unless they win their last game of the season. Ask St. Louis last year. You don't think they should cancel the playoffs...Do you?
I went to the Cleveland game today. It was excellent. That team never gave up; they were anxious and popped up balls they should've waited on. They are a good team, and exciting to watch. They just didn't have that "extra notch on the dial" at the end.
The team did itself, its fans, and its city proud. A trip to the World Series would've been such an excellent metaphor about so many things...sigh.
No...but you guys sound like you want to cancel the season.
Look....I am not trying to diss the Yankees. Until they drop the DH, I don't care WHAT they do in the Junior League.
We play REAL baseball for 162 games.
I've always been a big Indians fan...being from Ohio originally. I've lived near Boston for a lot of years so the Red Slobs are my team. But I'll always have a place for the Red Legs and The Tribe.
BTW, I found the answer to my question. The rule was changed when the Wild Card was instituted to avoid three way ties. There was no wild card in 1978.
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