2012 Playoffs Thread

[mookie]

Wait a second. All the teams with the worse record get the first two games at home? Am I reading the above schedule correctly?

 

Pretty terrible.

[jersey cubs fan]

I don't like the fifth team, but I can live with it. What I really don't like is the lower seeds hosting the first two games of the LDS this season because Bud couldn't wait a season to implement the fifth team. All it has done in the AL is push the tie-breaker back to Friday instead of being tonight and totally screwed up the homefield advantage aspect of the LDS. In the NL it has allowed the Cardinals into the postseason with the chance to actually have homefield advantage against the Nationals (best record in the league). Personally, I'd rather be the 3 seed than the 2 seed this season...

Err...the lower seeds don't have home field advantage.

 

It definitely could be argued that they do.

Yeah, I don't know the math, but I'm fairly sure someone who looked it up would find that a very large percentage of the best of 5 series in baseball history have ended in fewer than 5 games.

 

And I'm sure a good percentage of those series were won by the road team.

 

The first two games doesn't make homefield advantage.

[Guest]

Baltimore 4, Texas 3

Atlanta 231, St. Louis 0

 

Detroit over Oakland in 5

New York over Baltimore in 4

San Francisco over Cincinnati in 4

Washington over Atlanta in 5

 

Detroit over New York in 6

San Francisco over Washington in 6

 

San Francisco over Detroit in 5

[Sammys Boombox]

I don't like the fifth team, but I can live with it. What I really don't like is the lower seeds hosting the first two games of the LDS this season because Bud couldn't wait a season to implement the fifth team. All it has done in the AL is push the tie-breaker back to Friday instead of being tonight and totally screwed up the homefield advantage aspect of the LDS. In the NL it has allowed the Cardinals into the postseason with the chance to actually have homefield advantage against the Nationals (best record in the league). Personally, I'd rather be the 3 seed than the 2 seed this season...

Err...the lower seeds don't have home field advantage.

[bcl412]

There is no chance for them to have home field advantage.

 

Actually, the 2-2-1 format gives an opportunity for the lower team to "steal" home field. That's impossible under this format.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

The idea is that the lower seed should never have the opportunity to have more home games. If these series end in 3, they've had a 2-1 homefield advantage.

 

I don't agree with that idea, but I get it.

[jersey cubs fan]

My friend was vehemently against this new WC round a couple weeks ago and texted me this morning that he has now come around.

[SouthSideRyan]

My friend was vehemently against this new WC round a couple weeks ago and texted me this morning that he has now come around.

 

I wouldn't say I've "come around," but I'm really looking forward to watching tonight.

[mookie]

I am so amped to see Chipper go 3/3 with 5 HRs and 12 RBI.

[Sammys Boombox]

The idea is that the lower seed should never have the opportunity to have more home games. If these series end in 3, they've had a 2-1 homefield advantage.

 

I don't agree with that idea, but I get it.

 

What do you mean you don't agree? The lower seed would have more home games in a 3-game series. That's home field advantage.

[jersey cubs fan]

The idea is that the lower seed should never have the opportunity to have more home games. If these series end in 3, they've had a 2-1 homefield advantage.

 

I don't agree with that idea, but I get it.

 

What do you mean you don't agree? The lower seed would have more home games in a 3-game series. That's home field advantage.

 

It's not a 3-game series.

[Sammys Boombox]

The idea is that the lower seed should never have the opportunity to have more home games. If these series end in 3, they've had a 2-1 homefield advantage.

 

I don't agree with that idea, but I get it.

 

What do you mean you don't agree? The lower seed would have more home games in a 3-game series. That's home field advantage.

 

It's not a 3-game series.

 

Are you really that dense?

 

My problem is that the lower-seeded team should never have a chance to host more games in a series (especially a short one like a 5-game series) than the higher-seeded team. It looks really bad when the higher-seeded team finished 10 games ahead of the lower-seeded team. That would be the case if the Cardinals win today. The argument was to make the division championship mean more this year, and it did in the AL. But the potential is there to take all of that away just because a team that finished much lower in the standings wins ONE game against a team other than the Nationals. The same situation stands if the Braves win. The Nationals beat them over the course of 162 and so they have to go play the first two games of a short series in Atlanta's park?

Edited October 5, 2012 by Sammy's Boombox

[Guest]

The idea is that the lower seed should never have the opportunity to have more home games. If these series end in 3, they've had a 2-1 homefield advantage.

 

I don't agree with that idea, but I get it.

 

What do you mean you don't agree? The lower seed would have more home games in a 3-game series. That's home field advantage.

 

It's not a 3-game series.

 

Are you really that dense?

 

Even if the higher seed loses the first two games, they have 3 games to win at home and thereby win the series, therefore they have home field advantage.

 

Only one team can win the series by winning all of its home games.

 

The order of the games doesn't change this. A lower seeded team winning on the road would acquire home field advantage, no matter the order.

[jersey cubs fan]

Are you really that dense?

 

Possibly, but you don't know what homefield advantage is.

[Sammys Boombox]

I would have called myself out on the 2-3-2 format in the LCS... Although I did not state it well, my real issue is with the potential of the lower seeded team having more home games in such a short series. Home field advantage or not you all would be much more angry if this was 2008 and the Cubs were starting the first two games of the playoffs on the road.

[jersey cubs fan]

I would have called myself out on the 2-3-2 format in the LCS... Although I did not state it well, my real issue is with the potential of the lower seeded team having more home games in such a short series. Home field advantage or not you all would be much more angry if this was 2008 and the Cubs were starting the first two games of the playoffs on the road.

 

I'd be pretty happy if the Cubs were facing a team that had to play a one game playoff (which by the way may be on the road)

[Sammys Boombox]

I would have called myself out on the 2-3-2 format in the LCS... Although I did not state it well, my real issue is with the potential of the lower seeded team having more home games in such a short series. Home field advantage or not you all would be much more angry if this was 2008 and the Cubs were starting the first two games of the playoffs on the road.

 

I'd be pretty happy if the Cubs were facing a team that had to play a one game playoff (which by the way may be on the road)

 

What if you were the 2 seed?

[jersey cubs fan]

I would have called myself out on the 2-3-2 format in the LCS... Although I did not state it well, my real issue is with the potential of the lower seeded team having more home games in such a short series. Home field advantage or not you all would be much more angry if this was 2008 and the Cubs were starting the first two games of the playoffs on the road.

 

I'd be pretty happy if the Cubs were facing a team that had to play a one game playoff (which by the way may be on the road)

 

What if you were the 2 seed?

 

I think that is a pointless addition this season that will be changed. It's an annoyance but not that big of a deal. These things tend to wrap up in games 3 and 4, I'd kind of like that to be in my stadium.

[jersey cubs fan]

who is the moron third man in the booth.

 

"He also walks a lot, which is kind of odd to go along with all those strikeouts."

 

What kind of moron thinks that is kind of odd?

[Sammys Boombox]

who is the moron third man in the booth.

 

"He also walks a lot, which is kind of odd to go along with all those strikeouts."

 

What kind of moron thinks that is kind of odd?

 

See: Dunn, Adam. 222 K. 105 BB. Lots of pitches taken equals deep counts and lots of BB and K.

[illiniguy]

It has to be amazing to be a cardinal fan.

[Sammys Boombox]

It has to be amazing to be a cardinal fan.

 

Free runs from sure-handed fielders. Calls that nobody else gets.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

It has to be amazing to be a cardinal fan.

 

The Cubs have won one postseason series in any of our lifetimes, including Fred. Two if you want to count the WC tiebreaker game in 1998.

 

Today's game could be the Cardinals' 10th in the last decade.

 

Oh, and they haven't lost 90+ since 1990, though their farm system mysteriously hasn't shriveled up and died as a result.

[DivineBovine]

The F@#$ing Cards are going to win another WS, aren't they.

 

:banghead:

[UMFan83]

It has to be amazing to be a cardinal fan.

 

The Cubs have won one postseason series in any of our lifetimes, including Fred. Two if you want to count the WC tiebreaker game in 1998.

 

Today's game could be the Cardinals' 10th in the last decade.

 

Oh, and they haven't lost 90+ since 1990, though their farm system mysteriously hasn't shriveled up and died as a result.

 

Don't forget that they are now gifted an extra draft pick because they are somehow at a competitive disadvantage because of their market size or something.