This is why baseball sucks. It is an individual performance sport. There is nothing the 8 other players can do to make the one person under the spotlight perform better.
The regular season is crap. It is 162 games just to sell some tickets and snacks. The stats a batter puts up in the regular season doesn't carry over to the post season. You could have batted .350 and hit 50 HR's in the regular season but gone homerless in your last 60 at bats and hit .200 to end the season. Now which stat will carry over in the post season? It's not like in basketball you go from averaging 30 points in the regular season and average 5 points in the post season or start clanking all of your free throws.
If you ask me the best team in baseball are the NY Yankees. They finished with 97 wins in a division where 4 out of the 5 teams had a .500 or better record. But instead their 162 game season gets wiped clean and MLB says lets see how well you play in just these 5 games.
The regular season is crap. It is 162 games just to sell some tickets and snacks. The stats a batter puts up in the regular season doesn't carry over to the post season. You could have batted .350 and hit 50 HR's in the regular season but gone homerless in your last 60 at bats and hit .200 to end the season. Now which stat will carry over in the post season? It's not like in basketball you go from averaging 30 points in the regular season and average 5 points in the post season or start clanking all of your free throws.
If you ask me the best team in baseball are the NY Yankees. They finished with 97 wins in a division where 4 out of the 5 teams had a .500 or better record. But instead their 162 game season gets wiped clean and MLB says lets see how well you play in just these 5 games.
I can't believe Boston isn't in the playoffs.
As for making the World Series, the first round bestt of 5 series is really a crapshoot. Unlike the NBA, the best teams don't win the series as often in baseball, as alot of baseball is luck and teams are much closer in success rate.
The Phillies could play the Astros in a best of 5 series and would only win the series roughly 80% of the time, meanwhile if the Lakers played Twolves in a best of five series they would probably win the series close to 95% of the time.
I don't think any knowledgable baseball fan would argue the Phillie's arent the most well-rounded team in the NL, but when you play a 5-game series it could go either way.
As for making the World Series, the first round bestt of 5 series is really a crapshoot. Unlike the NBA, the best teams don't win the series as often in baseball, as alot of baseball is luck and teams are much closer in success rate.
The Phillies could play the Astros in a best of 5 series and would only win the series roughly 80% of the time, meanwhile if the Lakers played Twolves in a best of five series they would probably win the series close to 95% of the time.
I don't think any knowledgable baseball fan would argue the Phillie's arent the most well-rounded team in the NL, but when you play a 5-game series it could go either way.
baseball is most definitely a team sport. one guy can pitch amazing but rarely is he going to throw a CG. he needs a good bullpen.
one guy or even a few guys can hit really well, see yankees. if the entire roster doesnt at least have the capability of getting a clutch hit, that individual under the spotlight who is hitting really well doesnt mean shit.
this is why baseball sucks? why? because you cant buy your way into the world series like the yankees, phils, bosox, whoever tried to do this year? they failed and that sucks? lol
have you been watching any of these games? it has been the complete opposite of suck. great baseball so far this month. no sweeps in the DS rounds, and 3 out of 4 go to game 5. all 3 game 5s decided by 1 run. that is anti suck.
just realized you are probably a yankees bosox or phils fan.
I totally agree. In basketball if you have a team that just missed the playoffs play a top seeded team in a best of 5 or 7 series it would be no contest and borderline unwatchable. But in baseball take this year for example have the Giants play the Phillies in a 5 or 7 game series and the Giants could own the Phillies more times than not. Same goes if the Angels were to play the Yankees.
The Yankees out scored the Tigers 28-17 in the series and didn't get shit from A-Rod or Texeria. Some would say if A-Rod or Tex even hit .250 for the series the Yankees would be advancing. I say not necessary... because what makes you think A-Rod or Tex would produce runs in the games that the Yankees lost if they weren't able to produce runs in the games that they won like the rest of the team could? So most likely their hits would come in the two games the Yankees won and in the end the Yankees would have out scored the Tigers 34-17 in the series but still lost. Yup baseball sucks like that.
And A-Rod failed every time he was up. Instead of looking at the hitters, lets look at the pitchers. Carp in his prime can outpitch Halliday, and did. Anyone who paid attention to the Tigers after trading for Fister and D Yound knew they were the best team in baseball after the AS Game.
Baseball is only Americas past time for the player stats and individual awards. That is all that really matters. Why else do you think they wait until weeks after the World Series has ended to start handing out the Cy Young, ROY, and MVP awards? When you think of Greg Maddux you think of the 4 Cy Young awards he won for himself, not the 1 World Series he one. In football when Dan Marino's career was over he held almost every passing record but all people talk about is he didn't win a championship. Even Peyton Manning gets criticized for only winning one super bowl in his career his MVP awards are almost worthless amongst the fans and media.
On the flipside what if the starting pitcher is off his game and gives up some early runs? What good is the bullpen then? You saw how doom and gloom people were when they knew AJ Burnett was taking the mound in game 4. Were people saying that AJ needs the support from his teammates to move on? Nope they were saying AJ blows and he was going to get lit up and it was all going to be his fault.
I am not saying some of these series were entertaining to watch because they were. It is just the upset factor in baseball is at a very high percentage. The Mariners could beat the Yankees in a 5 game series if they have to go against Kid Felix twice in 5 games. That could never happen in basketball. No way do the Lakers lose to the Kings in a 5 game series with or without Kobe.
I just think over a 162 game period the best teams will always prevail but over a 5 game span anything can happen. Any pitcher can pitch a good game but only the best pitchers can have a good season. Any batter can go 3 for 4 in a game but only the best hit .300 and belt 40hr's in a season.
Nope I am a White Sox fan. Many years of misery to look forward to.
run support.
the notion that baseball isnt a team game is ridiculous. even the most routine defensive plays over the course of the game require the entire team to be involved. any defensive weakness on a team will be exposed. any weakness in a lineup in a hotly contested series will be exposed. any weakness in a pitching staff as a whole during a hotly contested series will be exposed. baseball most often awards the most "complete" team, not the team with the biggest star. how is this even up for debate?
we are about to enter the 7 game series rounds, where a ROTATION of starting pitchers matters more than at any other part of the season. in the best of 5 round, a less deep rotation can get by. but in a best of 7, a team could have the greatest pitcher in the history of baseball as their ace, a guy who throws a no hitter every time he goes out, but that team still only wins 3 out of 7 games if the rest of their rotation blows.
Neither team earned the right to be there! Teams that advance are those that are playing their best baseball in September. Neither Philadelphia or Boston were even close to playing their best. The teams that remain are the teams playing the best baseball. It doesn't matter what happened during the regular season.
Ya well try going 18-0 and losing on a freak play in SB.In a sport where there is a salary cap.Best teams don't always win.
Fuck the Yankees,RSox,Phillies, tough shit, they've ruined the fuckin sport.
The baseball playoffs have been the best they have been in years.The last 3 days were a reminder of why I love the game.
Go Josh! Go Rangers!
