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This pirate crowd makes me sad about how lame and scared Cubs playoff crowds can be

Well, my memory is fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure our crowds were pretty awesome in 2003 before the 8th inning of Game 6. Let Pittsburgh go through a few of those and see if they don't turn into tight-asses too

 

Yeah, the crowds were bonkers in 2003 and 2007. It was only with 2008 where they were a-scared.

 

I feel like by the 5th bases loaded double play in '07 the crowd had died

 

I was at that game 3 when Hill gave up the HR to Young on the first pitch. The crowd was dead as soon as that happened. It sucked tremendously.

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1-game WC matchups are awesome. Having them play three games while everybody else sits around and waits would be dumb.

The Division Series don't even start until Thursday and Friday, which means there is plenty of room to fit a 3-game series. There is no reason to let 1-game decide a "playoff" round in a sport that plays a 162 game regular season.

 

1. It was decided over those 162 games that you're stuck in the do or die situation. If you want a chance at a full series, win your division.

 

2. In the case of the AL this year, you'd have Tampa traveling from Toronto on Sunday to Arlington on Monday to Cleveland on Tuesday(then presumably) back to Tampa on Thursday, and then to Boston on Fridady.

 

And needing to leave Monday open for tiebreakers/make-up games, you wouldn't be able to start any of the DS games on Thursday.

I think you would feel differently if a 94-win Cubs team finished 2nd to the Cardinals and ended up losing the 1 game playoff to an 89-win 2nd Wild Card team. If anything, it was decided over 162 games that the Cubs were better than Team B, so why should one essentially random game decide who moves on? Sure, they could also lose a 3 game series, but that outcome would be a little easier to swallow.

 

Of course I'd hate it if that scenario came true, but what if the Cubs were that 89 win team? The bottom line is I like the one game playoffs, and if the Cubs get screwed by it someday that's not going to change my opinion.

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This pirate crowd makes me sad about how lame and scared Cubs playoff crowds can be

Well, my memory is fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure our crowds were pretty awesome in 2003 before the 8th inning of Game 6. Let Pittsburgh go through a few of those and see if they don't turn into tight-asses too

 

Yeah, the crowds were bonkers in 2003 and 2007. It was only with 2008 where they were a-scared.

 

I feel like by the 5th bases loaded double play in '07 the crowd had died

 

I was at that game 3 when Hill gave up the HR to Young on the first pitch. The crowd was dead as soon as that happened. It sucked tremendously.

 

Yup, I was still walking to my seat. Stupid OPR

SouthSideRyan MVP

SouthSideRyan

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This pirate crowd makes me sad about how lame and scared Cubs playoff crowds can be

Well, my memory is fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure our crowds were pretty awesome in 2003 before the 8th inning of Game 6. Let Pittsburgh go through a few of those and see if they don't turn into tight-asses too

 

Yeah, the crowds were bonkers in 2003 and 2007. It was only with 2008 where they were a-scared.

 

I feel like by the 5th bases loaded double play in '07 the crowd had died

 

I was there too, and that's not accurate. The crowd got silent after the HR obviously, but everyone was up and making noise just in time for Mark DeRosa to keep grounding into double plays.

I was at that game 3 when Hill gave up the HR to Young on the first pitch. The crowd was dead as soon as that happened. It sucked tremendously.

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We all know the Cardinals are gonna repeat.

??

 

They won last year, no?

 

No, that would be the Giants.

 

hahahahaha. Awesome! Last year was the year where they beat the Nationals in epic fashion.

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I don't understand how people can be given a free decisive game and think "You know what the playoffs really need? More non-decisive early round games."

Boring people like to be bored.

 

Or baseball is a game based on a pitching STAFF, so some people would like more than one game. I understand why people like the one game. I understand why people like the three game series. I understand why people don't even want the second wild card. There is no correct way of doing it just differing opinions.

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I don't understand how people can be given a free decisive game and think "You know what the playoffs really need? More non-decisive early round games."

Boring people like to be bored.

 

Or baseball is a game based on a pitching STAFF, so some people would like more than one game. I understand why people like the one game. I understand why people like the three game series. I understand why people don't even want the second wild card. There is no correct way of doing it just differing opinions.

Baseball is not a game based on a pitching staff.

 

And it's not like you win the World Series with one game. A 3 game series is just as random and "meaningless". If you don't like it , win your division. Pit still has to go into round 1 without Liriano until late. This is not the easy road. It is fun and enjoyable and entertaining. Baseball needs that more than it needs more non-deciding 4 hour games.

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A 3 game series is just as random and "meaningless".

By that logic, the World Series might as well be shortened to 1 game.

 

A 3 game series is slightly less random than 1 game or else all series would be equally random regardless of length.

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What refreshing post-game analysis by TBS. Olbermann asks the crew about McCutcheon saying the Pirates won because of their confidence heading in.

 

DeRosa, Pedro, and Hayhurst all tell him it's [expletive]. Naturally Verducci says it's because the Reds confidence was "false confidence"

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Dusty's teams are now 1-10 in their last 11 playoff games where they can eliminate the other team with a win.
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I don't understand how people can be given a free decisive game and think "You know what the playoffs really need? More non-decisive early round games."

Boring people like to be bored.

 

Or baseball is a game based on a pitching STAFF, so some people would like more than one game. I understand why people like the one game. I understand why people like the three game series. I understand why people don't even want the second wild card. There is no correct way of doing it just differing opinions.

Baseball is not a game based on a pitching staff.

You're joking, right? I'm not discounting that some people think non-decisive games are boring. What percentage of them do? I don't know.

 

Not every stance you take has to be debated so that you win the argument. When you try to win every debate instead of discussing them you say things like, "Baseball is not a game based on a pitching staff."

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Non-decisive early-round games are boring, not all non-decisive games.

 

Combine this with the fact that it adds meaning to winning the division, and you've got one of the best ideas baseball has had in a long time.

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Can we have Michael Keaton as our fan mascot please?

 

What's wrong with Jim Belushi?

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