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My system is perfect because it enhances all the things people like about each part of the season, without degrading one for the other. The regular season is a marathon not a sprint, where roster construction and true talent (usually) win out over hot streaks. So we balance the schedule and reward the teams that win the most games. You still get 6 months of your team playing nearly every day, and you get to see them face all possible opponents. People love the postseason because every game matters, and it's chaos where hot streaks are rewarded and upsets happen plenty. In short, tournaments are fun. So we expand the field to include more teams, more games, more underdogs, and more opportunities for chaos. We stack the deck early against lower seeds to help increase the chances of having good teams remaining at the end, but this also fuels the narrative power of any underdogs that manage to get hot and break through the first two rounds. The only potential downside is this might kill the trade deadline because every team is still going to play in October. But maybe bad teams will still trade expiring contracts because the odds of them making a run are still very slim. bawfuls fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Mar 19, 2024 |
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I like bawfuls' postseason system because it gives the Dodgers a trophy and an opportunity to lose in the first round to increasingly silly opponents
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Mar 19, 2024 21:01
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see? everybody wins!
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elentar posted:With Jackson Chourio making the Brewers that’s now 3 20-year-olds on opening day rosters and they’re all named Jackson Jack’s got some good god drat genes
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Mar 19, 2024 21:07
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The thing that is great about baseball is how long the season is. It's loving criminal that they have basically made the season way less meaningful with the expanded playoffs. It's really too bad.
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Mar 19, 2024 21:12
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Erase the playoffs, play baseball all year long, nonstop, never let the season end. If you didn't get a team, congrats--you are the only ones who are free.
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Shinjobi posted:Erase the playoffs, play baseball all year long, nonstop, never let the season end. If you didn't get a team, congrats--you are the only ones who are free. Just have a running 162-game W/L record
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lol Boras rules https://twitter.com/enosarris/status/1770181983420764258?s=46&t=OxNS0oQRTXMDiN4qEfSnlQ
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DeepDickPizza posted:lol Boras rules it's clearly someone else's fault that he hosed his clients.
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Mar 19, 2024 21:24
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If the Dodgers want they could just go to one of those little league trophy stores and have a bunch of regular season champion ones made. No one is stopping them
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Intruder posted:If the Dodgers want they could just go to one of those little league trophy stores and have a bunch of regular season champion ones made. No one is stopping them bawfuls fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Mar 19, 2024 |
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Mar 19, 2024 21:31
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When has the regular season not been meaningless? You can't "win" the regular season.
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Clayton Kershaw is a downright ancient 36 years old today 
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live with fruit posted:When has the regular season not been meaningless? You can't "win" the regular season.
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I like that there's a bunch of meaningless games, love to go to a game in June and not really get too bummed if they lose. You can't have playoff intensity 100 times, need some lazy dogshit games.
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bawfuls posted:Yes you could, prior to 1969 the regular season championship was called the Pennant and it was a thing people absolutely cared about. When Bobby Thompson cheated to hit that home run in 1951 the announcer is yelling over and over "The Giants win the Pennant!" not "The Giants are going to the World Series!" So 55 years ago?
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live with fruit posted:So 55 years ago? again, if you don't give a poo poo that's fine, my system has a thrilling 32-team tournament for you
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R.D. Mangles posted:I like that there's a bunch of meaningless games, love to go to a game in June and not really get too bummed if they lose. You can't have playoff intensity 100 times, need some lazy dogshit games.
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live with fruit posted:I'm not sure putting a bunch of players who otherwise don't belong in the majors in the majors makes baseball better. Nothing in the world is ever going to get better so you may as well get used to it.
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bawfuls posted:also known as the first 68 years of MLB yes there are plenty of things from the first decades of baseball history that have rightly been confined to the scrap heap
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Eric the Mauve posted:Don't you threaten me with a good time What have you done…
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Jackson Holliday is the truth and the light
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live with fruit posted:When has the regular season not been meaningless? You can't "win" the regular season. 
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Bregor posted:What have you done… At least this derail is about basesball. Also I'd be down for bawfuls system because more meaningless hardware to humble brag about is good.
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LobsterMobster posted:there are plenty of things from the first decades of baseball history that have rightly been confined to the scrap heap The argument was that the regular season has always been "meaningless" and therefore should remain so. I not only disagree with that logic (we can and do change things as we see fit), but also it is false because there were 6 decades of MLB where the regular season very much did mean something to players and fans. My system is flawless because it contains something for everyone. Do you love near-meaningless mid-summer games? We got you covered with a 6-month season. Do you want to award a trophy to the team(s) who stand out during that 6-month marathon? We got you covered with the restoration of The Pennant(s). Do you love October Chaos Ball? We got you covered with the most chaotic, largest October super-tournament yet conceived! Do you want to see superteams crash and burn out of a tournament to the worst team in the sport? Buddy, imagine the Dodgers losing both ends of a double header at home to the A's to end their season. Do you want to see Mike Trout play at least one postseason game every year? We got that covered too! bawfuls fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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There's real baseball happening in like 10 hours 
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I will not be waking up at 3am to watch baseball, sorry dreamy Tyler, I'll have to catch your next start
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live with fruit posted:When has the regular season not been meaningless? You can't "win" the regular season. The regular season is full of games, each of which you can individually win and derive joy from. They can even be considered in terms of series where extra joy can come from winning all of them. Sorry, I just hate the "chip or bust" mentality.
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Regular season baseball is for drinking beers and eating nachos in the sunshine enjoying watching the pajama men bop around on the basepaths and the postseason is for a series of insane emotional meltdowns.
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all of my teams baseball is good and there should be more of it
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R.D. Mangles posted:Regular season baseball is for drinking beers and eating nachos in the sunshine enjoying watching the pajama men bop around on the basepaths
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Eric the Mauve posted:I'm open to a 130 game regular season followed by intradivisional ladder playoffs. Every team makes the playoffs! Ahh the WCC style playoff.
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If the only time you can derive joy from watching sports is when your team wins the pennant or trophy you'll be miserable 95% of the time. Perfect for posting in SAS Darude - Adam Sandstorm fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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Give every team a ceremony for being the most special boys in their market territory so nobody feels left out except the Mets and White Sox.
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Oh hey technically the first regular season game is in a few hours cause they’re counting the Seoul series as regular season games.
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https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1770394753705685051?t=t9UfYWoIhe99qWBp4a1zhw&s=19
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https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1770430285999481202 Same old padres
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Brito and Wandy immediately eating poo poo against the loathsome Dodgers. Weak.
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I see the Padres wasted no time in being cursed for the season
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Dodgers rule Padres drool
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