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Newch91 · July 2012

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Wobbie · July 2012

anyone else think kinsler let chipper's little dribbler get by on purpose? :?

Wobbie · July 2012

how bummed did KC fans have to be to see melky win MVP and then realize they traded him for...jonathan sanchez ? :?

yeah, the j. sanchez who just won jayson stark's first half Cy Yuk:

"Sanchez could probably win this award based on his 1.99 WHIP alone. Or for his attractive 40-to-32 walks-to-strikeouts ratio. Or for averaging under 4 2/3 innings a start. Or for finding himself on a pace to join just Steve Blass and Oliver Perez as the only starting pitchers in the division-play era to have a walk rate this ugly (7.8 per 9 IP) AND allow more than 10 hits per nine innings in the same season (minimum: 46 innings). But when you add in the body language of a guy who acts as if he'd rather be in Kampala than Kansas City, and then remember that to get this man, the Royals had to trade a fellow (Melky Cabrera) who's about to start the All-Star Game, what we have here is (what else?) a runaway winner of the Cy Yuk balloting."

JonnyPistachio · July 2012

LloydXmas wrote:

I still can't believe that an exhibition game in the middle of the season determines home field advantage for the world series. Selig is an Ass Hat

This really might be the dumbest thing in all of sports. Just amazing how ludicrous it is.

Wobbie · July 2012

JonnyPistachio wrote:

LloydXmas wrote:

I still can't believe that an exhibition game in the middle of the season determines home field advantage for the world series. Selig is an Ass Hat

This really might be the dumbest thing in all of sports. Just amazing how ludicrous it is.

no arguing that bud is a dipshit.......but alternating home field by years made no sense either.

Wobbie · July 2012

what.a.fucking.moron.

Kansas City, Mo. -- Thirty-nine months after Commissioner Bud Selig formed a three-person committee to analyze the A's stadium issue, he said Tuesday, "The main hang-up is, we don't have the answers."

DewieCox · July 2012

DS1119 wrote:

LloydXmas wrote:

I still can't believe that an exhibition game in the middle of the season determines home field advantage for the world series. Selig is an Ass Hat

And one team is managed by a person retired from baseball. :fp:

I don't see the big deal. I think it's a great way to honor someone that managed at the highest level all the way up through his last season. In a sport so big on tradition, I think it fits whether home field is on the line or not. And I don't think home field being decided this way is the worst thing. I think it should be decided by the standings, but I just don't think it's a big issue. I don't seeing anybody out there overwhelmingly halfassing it. I haven't heard many, if any players complaining about it. Is home field is a big advantage in baseball in a 7 game series? The hottest team is gonna win come playoff time.

Wobbie · July 2012

DewieCox wrote:

Is home field is a big advantage in baseball in a 7 game series? The hottest team is gonna win come playoff time.

it's big. I can't find the stats, but I'm thinking over the last 30 years about 2/3 of the winners have had the home field.

norm · July 2012

imalive wrote:

JonnyPistachio wrote:

LloydXmas wrote:

I still can't believe that an exhibition game in the middle of the season determines home field advantage for the world series. Selig is an Ass Hat

This really might be the dumbest thing in all of sports. Just amazing how ludicrous it is.

no arguing that bud is a dipshit.......but alternating home field by years made no sense either.

yeah i never got why they did it that way...do like the nba and nhl...best reg season record

Jearlpam0925 · July 2012

imalive wrote:

DewieCox wrote:

Is home field is a big advantage in baseball in a 7 game series? The hottest team is gonna win come playoff time.

it's big. I can't find the stats, but I'm thinking over the last 30 years about 2/3 of the winners have had the home field.

There have been 84 World Series played since 1924 using the 2-3-2 format in which the team with home-field advantage hosts the first two and last two games, and the home team has won 48 times, or 57%. (Excluded are years in which the travel format was altered because of war and 1994, when there was no World Series because of a strike.) From 1951 to 1980, the team without home-field advantage won 20 of the 30 Series, while 22 of the last 29 winners have been the team with home-field advantage.

"Baseball in general has the lowest home-field advantage of all sports," said Tobias Moskowitz, coauthor of "Scorecasting" and a professor at the University of Chicago. "We don't find that there is any difference in the postseason versus the regular season, once you adjust for the quality of teams."

Wobbie · July 2012

^^^^ the 22 of 29 was what I was remembering.

you would think baseball WOULD have a great home field advantage, since it is the ONLY sport without a standardized field/court/pitch/rink/etc :?

Jearlpam0925 · July 2012

imalive wrote:

^^^^ the 22 of 29 was what I was remembering.

you would think baseball WOULD have a great home field advantage, since it is the ONLY sport without a standardized field/court/pitch/rink/etc :?

Baseball is such a game of luck or small nuances that it makes sense. Two teams in the WS are probably going to be even matched, or be usually just as hot. Teams in the WS are less about being superior and more about getting lucky, and those little differences in a game win you a championship. A pitcher park will make any pitcher look good and a hitter's park will make any hitter look good - it makes sense that it's pretty equal.

DewieCox · July 2012

imalive wrote:

^^^^ the 22 of 29 was what I was remembering.

you would think baseball WOULD have a great home field advantage, since it is the ONLY sport without a standardized field/court/pitch/rink/etc :?

Didn't think about that really, but I've always looked at home field advantage as a crowd momentum thing. Sounds like something they'd cover on Sports Science.

Ledbetterman10 · July 2012

DewieCox wrote:

imalive wrote:

^^^^ the 22 of 29 was what I was remembering.

you would think baseball WOULD have a great home field advantage, since it is the ONLY sport without a standardized field/court/pitch/rink/etc :?

Didn't think about that really, but I've always looked at home field advantage as a crowd momentum thing. Sounds like something they'd cover on Sports Science.

I've always looked at home-field advantage in baseball as being primarily about who bats last. Unlike basketball where the crowd is right on top of you, I don't think the crowd noise means as much in baseball. And even if it does, it seems easier to for an away team to suck the life out of a home crowd in baseball than it does in basketball.

As for the All-Star game winner getting home-field in the World Series, I actually like it. People sometimes forget that before 2002, the AL and NL rotated home-field in the WS...it didn't matter who had the better record. I always thought that was dumb as hell. So since the record of the pennant champs has always been irrelevant, I like the All-Star game determining home-field.

keeponrockin · July 2012

JonnyPistachio wrote:

LloydXmas wrote:

I still can't believe that an exhibition game in the middle of the season determines home field advantage for the world series. Selig is an Ass Hat

This really might be the dumbest thing in all of sports. Just amazing how ludicrous it is.

I would say ending a hockey game/soccer match with a skills competition is stupider.

Flagg · July 2012

As a fan of the team that dropped the last two, why can't home field just be based on record and be done with it??

And with expanded inter league play next year that makes even more sense.

Best team gets home field - end of story.

Newch91 · July 2012

Flagg wrote:

As a fan of the team that dropped the last two, why can't home field just be based on record and be done with it??

And with expanded inter league play next year that makes even more sense.

Best team gets home field - end of story.

It makes too much sense for Selig.

Newch91 · July 2012

Ken Singleton has a suggestion for the WS:

How about the results of interleague play up to the All Star Break determining which league has home field in World Series?

DS1119 · July 2012

Newch91 wrote:

Ken Singleton has a suggestion for the WS:

How about the results of interleague play up to the All Star Break determining which league has home field in World Series?

That's actually how home field would be determined in the WS if the all star game was rained out. Heard that on the radio just today.

LloydXmas · July 2012

Newch91 wrote:

Flagg wrote:

As a fan of the team that dropped the last two, why can't home field just be based on record and be done with it??

And with expanded inter league play next year that makes even more sense.

Best team gets home field - end of story.

It makes too much sense for Selig.

you're right. Best Record should get fucking home field. So stupid that this started from an All star game that went 10 plus innings and the players didn't want to play.

A team that won 103 games deserves home field more than a team who won let's say 85-90. If they won the same amount of games, then the inter league series winner gets home field advantage.

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