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are you shocked?.....this is like their 10th straight playoff loss.....Plaschke: Splat! Humiliated Dodgers swept into next season
Their latest playoff failure might be the worst one of them all, a three-game beatdown at the hands of the underdog Arizona Diamondbacks.www.yahoo.com
It's really all I cared about for the MLB season.
Watch out for them Phillies!Plaschke: Splat! Humiliated Dodgers swept into next season
Their latest playoff failure might be the worst one of them all, a three-game beatdown at the hands of the underdog Arizona Diamondbacks.
It's really all I cared about for the MLB season.
And very good teams like the Phillies, who have no real chance to catch the division leading Braves but are very good and hot coming in, are a tremendous threat.The playoff fiasco in MLB is a disgrace to competitive sports.
In football, where they don't play all that many games, and weather and injuries play a significant role, it makes sense to have many teams in the playoffs, because some teams had poor records due to factors outside their control.
But for a sport with 162(!) regular season games, the better teams have come out on top, and three rounds of playoffs are the most that should be presented. Division playoff, league playoff, and World Series. Teams that didn't even win their division should not be in. Allowing teams with mediocre records cheapens the playoffs. But of course with this crazy format, half the teams in the majors still have "a shot" halfway through September.
The division winners are in the playoffs because they finished on top after 162 games. Now there are a couple of really weak divisions I will grant you. And if you lock up your division with say a week or so to go, chances are you take a look at some other players while the teams fighting for a WC are going all out to get there.....and that streak often carries over like this year.Why change it? It works well. Maybe too many days off? The only exciting baseball is the last few weeks and the playoffs now? Getting like NBA.
The Dodgers sent out Lance Lynn a two month washed up rental. Lynn jas been mostly mediocre forever and not really good in Playoffs. They sent out Kershaw (again) to fail. They try to buy a team (like the Yankmees) and its not working. Who is the pitching coach? TEX & STL get a lot more out of less.
ARIZ improved all year and are now better than old over-rated LA. Kiki Hernandez and Taylor? Your gonna win with that? Betts & Freeman got shut down and thats all it took. Only Will Smith showed ready to play. Dave Roberts is? Ugh, are the Dodgers too old?
But LA deserves to go to NLCS because they beat up on SD in March?
Those are very well thought out points. But I disagree.The playoff fiasco in MLB is a disgrace to competitive sports.
In football, where they don't play all that many games, and weather and injuries play a significant role, it makes sense to have many teams in the playoffs, because some teams had poor records due to factors outside their control.
But for a sport with 162(!) regular season games, the better teams have come out on top, and three rounds of playoffs are the most that should be presented. Division playoff, league playoff, and World Series. Teams that didn't even win their division should not be in. Allowing teams with mediocre records cheapens the playoffs. But of course with this crazy format, half the teams in the majors still have "a shot" halfway through September.
For purity.... currently there are 30 teams.... Two fifteen team leagues. It's getting the same number of games against each team that is a problem. Reduce two teams and in 14 team leagues 13 time 12 equals 156 games.And very good teams like the Phillies, who have no real chance to catch the division leading Braves but are very good and hot coming in, are a tremendous threat.
Maybe take the 3 division leaders and only one WC, best record that didn't win the division. Or make 4 divisions and only division winners play.
Back to what it used to be.....For purity.... currently there are 30 teams.... Two fifteen team leagues. It's getting the same number of games against each team that is a problem. Reduce two teams and in 14 team leagues 13 time 12 equals 156 games.
Whatever.They met an opposing team getting hot at the right time and they got smoked.
I don't think God cares about baseball.
choking for ten straight years.....Whatever.
It's just the little things in life that make life worth living, like this player trying to hide his face in shame.
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Imagine, spending a gazillion dollars, more money than God actually has, and winning over a 100 games in the season, however, you not only lose the first playoff series, you can't even win one game.
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Maybe all the Catholics on the team threw the gameBetts and Freeman ($500million) went 1-37 (infield single game 2 that could have been called an error).
I guess that is what happens to the best of them......fall way behind due to horrible pitching (again).....the team begins to press. Doing almost nothing until late in game 3. Even that was because young ARIZ started to celebrate a bit and lost urgency IMVHO.
I called it before it started. If your season depends on Lance Lynn (or Kershaw) you are finished. I saw 300lb toilet-plugging Lynn on STL perform as an OK innings eater but when it counted the most? Ah....so-so at best a few times out. Ironically, I think he did OK and beat LA once in the playoffs?
Dave Roberts? Lost a bunch of them now. Winning only the Fauchi Flu shutdown bubble tournament. Magic Johnson in the front office? What could go wrong? After what he did to destroy the Lakers....now the Dodgers. But eh? Affirmative action and all.
Maybe all the Catholics on the team threw the game
That is one loss for Jesus!
I had forgotten about that self-inflicted error by Dodgers.Maybe all the Catholics on the team threw the game
That is one loss for Jesus!
I didn't forget, and never will forget.I had forgotten about that Devil-worshipping BS they allowed to parade around on the field.
I had forgotten about that self-inflicted error by Dodgers.
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Lynn throws like 70% fastballs, and is not as good as when he was a Cardinal.....just sit and wait on the fastball.Betts and Freeman ($500million) went 1-37 (infield single game 2 that could have been called an error).
I guess that is what happens to the best of them......fall way behind due to horrible pitching (again).....the team begins to press. Doing almost nothing until late in game 3. Even that was because young ARIZ started to celebrate a bit and lost urgency IMVHO.
I called it before it started. If your season depends on Lance Lynn (or Kershaw) you are finished. I saw 300lb toilet-plugging Lynn on STL perform as an OK innings eater but when it counted the most? Ah....so-so at best a few times out. Ironically, I think he did OK and beat LA once in the playoffs?
Dave Roberts? Lost a bunch of them now. Winning only the Fauchi Flu shutdown bubble tournament. Magic Johnson in the front office? What could go wrong? After what he did to destroy the Lakers....now the Dodgers. But eh? Affirmative action and all.
