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this format is terrible
9:57
Is it wrong that I'm rooting for the Astros and Brewers in the opening round in the hopes that both teams with losing records advancing would kill this playoff format?
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:57
Or they go WOW LOOK ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN
9:58
I always like the *FanGraphs* WAR reference!
(Statcast feed)
9:59
Sean Forman's a friend, but this is competition!
Angelus in the Outfield
10:00
I’d guess the optimal rooting preference for nuking the 16 team format is literally all the lower seeds advancing this round, thereby [...] over all the teams that actually had good regular seasons. Given that the Yankees are technically the lower seed, sounds like I have my rooting preference.
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:01
I'm not demanding we go back to two team playoffs, but thet regular season meaning something is important to me as a fan.
Meg Rowley
10:02
Incentives are fine, but honestly if the last year has shown us anything, it's that if you want someone to do something, have a rule! Incentives work... sometimes. Maybe owners of good teams look at good teams getting bounced early and see a problem. Maybe they say, oh, we can be way cheaper! Have a rule, a structure that ensures teams need to win. Don't depend on sometimes, or maybe.
this is purely about baseball, what else could it be about?
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:03
Yeah, to me, great teams trying win is the appeal of baseball (or any team sport)
Hugh Duffy
10:03
Speaking of losing to the competition, anyone else looking forward to Kiley McDaniels being part of the ESPN reporting team for the Reds-Braves game tomorrow?
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:04
THERE ARE TWO?!?!
Meg Rowley
10:04
Very excited!
Angelus in the Outfield
10:04
As a Yankee fan I’m extremely lucky I realize, but I’d also like to feel like anything is at stake in literally any regular season. I’ve been watching  baseball for 15 years and I can’t remember a single season where I was afraid we’d fall below 500.
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:04
I know, it sucks. I'm from Baltimore. The Orioles went more than a decade recently without any relevance.
10:05
But big picture, if mediocrity is rewarded nearly the same as excellence, you'll got a lot more of the former.
It stinks, but I *shoudln't* have felt good about the O's from 1998 to 2011.
Meg Rowley
10:06
Well at least Josh Naylor is having a good night
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:06
But then again, I can't just go back and be a fan of baseball in the exact same way I was in 1990. There's a whole "you can't go home" thing.
Lunar verLander
10:06
There are eight (EIGHT!!) games tomorrow. Which game are you most looking forward to?
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:06
Padres. They're the most exciting team in baseball right now.
Angelus in the Outfield
10:07
I will admit that I sometimes think about the Mariners and I have a moment of doubt about whether it’s just selfish of me to hate the expanded format.
Meg Rowley
10:07
It isn't
let me free you of that concern!
10:08
I'm not really much of a fan anymore but when the M's make it back, I want it to be a good team where I can feel like, wow cool, a good Mariners team!
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:08
Bingo!
Meg Rowley
10:08
This will mean so much to my family!
Sam
10:08
Stanton hit that ball out of the stadium. Not over anything though, just *through* everything
Brian CashGod
10:08
116 MPH lol
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:09
I want the Orioles to make the playoffs. But as a GOOD team. A team I can talk about in 25 years and think back fondly .
Angelus in the Outfield
10:09
What are your thoughts on a significantly expanded but significant unbalanced playoffs schedule? Like giving byes to the division winners. I go back and forth. Cause maybe that helps Mariners fans without causing good teams to be mediocre.
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:09
I'm not a fan of wildly unbalanced playoffs when you have wild cards.
wildly unbalanced schedules that it
is
10:10
Those 1997 Orioles? I'll remember that season. They were a really good team that year.
In 20 years, I'll have to be reminded that the 2016 Orioles made the playoffs.
AJ
10:11
I'd enjoy the expanded format a lot more if it were a best-of-2 where the lower seed has to win two games to advance and the higher seed only has to win one. I've spent most of the past week scared my team is gonna get bounced in the first round after getting the #1 seed
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:12
It's still not a big enough penalty for a whole year of work.
Winning 100 games and needing to lose 2 in a row instead of 2 out of 3 against a 78-84 team isn't that much better in my book.
Joe
10:13
(sorry, more format complaints) Whatever the playoffs turn into next season, I hope division winners don't have to play WC games. 'congratulations, you won the division, here's home field advantage - oh, but you need to play a three game elimination series SAME AS EVERYONE ELSE.'
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