Falls City Beer (05-24-2020)
The majority of world series champions didn't play 162 games, including the 1919 and 40 Reds title teams, better take down those banners.
Go Gators!
BoxingRed (05-24-2020),Falls City Beer (05-24-2020),Redsfaithful (05-24-2020),Roy Tucker (05-25-2020)
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i think the Reds should win it. and then let everyone who i don't care about argue whether it counts the same. while we still celebrate.
Legitimacy is defiantly in the eye of the beholder, and there will be debate over the legitimacy of this season forever. However, 99% of MLb championships don’t have this debate. It’s bad luck for MLB that this season comes right after we’ve learned that there’s a debate over the MLB championship of two years ago.
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An 80 game season is fine this year under the circumstances, but wild card teams winning championships in any sport is an abomination. It's one of the reasons I usually lose interest once the regular season is over. Unless the Reds are playing, the play-offs drone on way too long.
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texasdave (05-24-2020)
The only thing that weakens the legitimacy of a championship is cheating or something that involves the protest of the participants (so if the owners continued the game without the assent of current players/replacing with scabs).
Yes, I tend to be structural about these things. You win your division then prove you’re the best in your league. Then go against the best in the other league to determine the best of all. There were flaws in this, if the two likely best teams were in the same league, or even in the same division. It didn’t seem fair. But still, you’ve already shown you’re not the best of all, so why are you still in the tourney?
In recent years, with interleague play and so many games broadcast, we have real a good idea who the best team is before the World Series, but how will it do in the third event of the triathlon?
I don't think it's flawed. If you proved to be a better team by winning your division, even if the second best record is in the same Division, the team that won over a full season has already proven better. I hate wild cards in all sports. The one game play or go home which makes winning the division much more desirable is the only thing that makes it tolerable. The best thing about baseball is the long grind. Teams that emerge as division winners have already proven they belong and teams that don't win have already proven they don't belong. Different divisions have different schedules and the records are apples and oranges. Interleague play screws it up and I wish that would go away as well.
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The World Series champion usually isn’t the best team in the league anyways because the playoffs are a crapshoot. 2020 would be no different...
Ron Madden (05-24-2020),Roy Tucker (05-24-2020)
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It's not so much the 80 games that would make it different for me. It's the potential other stuff. I've heard rumors of 40 man teams. Of schedules that could be terribly unbalanced etc...
Those are the things that for me will determine if this is a glorified exhibition or a real season. Like if they're going to do stuff like starting the 10th inning with a man on second after 10 pitchers on the 40 man team pitched the first 9. That is the stuff that would turn the year into an exhibition.
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757690 (05-24-2020)
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