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Oh good grief. Do we have to make this season an absolute clown show? Pick your opponents? Is Vince McMahon the commissioner now?
Better start holding your nose, gscottar…
https://twitter.com/MarlyRiveraESPN/status/1286398198324637696
Just plain stupid! Let’s just have playoffs every year. Forget the regular season as it doesn’t mean a thing.
I said this before, and I will repeat it now. If you can’t play .500 ball over two months, you don’t deserve to be in the playoffs, anyway.
As Rob Manfred was on ESPN explaining the new playoff format, this happened.
2020 baseball in one image. pic.twitter.com/7cqccJVuYa
— Sara Sanchez (@BCB_Sara) July 24, 2020
Better start holding your nose, gscottar…
Having 8 teams per league in the playoffs is one thing but choosing your opponent is beyond ridiculous. Have they scrapped that idea?
I wish they went back to the Championship Series and World Series. Then the pennant would be meaningful again.
gscottar asked:
Having 8 teams per league in the playoffs is one thing but choosing your opponent is beyond ridiculous. Have they scrapped that idea?
Yes, that idea did not make it. Straight seeding.
My prediction for next up will be a 30-man roster all season…
Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association have agreed to stage seven-inning doubleheaders starting Aug. 1, sources familiar with the situation tell ESPN.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 30, 2020
This change is now official. The Cards hope they will be able to take advantage of this change on Sunday.
Doubleheaders will be seven innings each game this year. pic.twitter.com/vCo8dRdGVi
— Alyson Footer (@alysonfooter) July 31, 2020
So we are back to an old discussion – how long is a credible season and does it matter that some teams play more games than others? Remember that while this will affect the Cardinals most, all of their canceled opponents will have fewer than 60 games also.
'I think whether you get all the way to 60 or not, that’s difficult at this point. I think it’s possible for (#stlcards) to play enough games to be credible, to be a credible competitor in this season.'
— #MLB Commissioner Manfred to The Post-Dispatch.https://t.co/Low805K4jy— Derrick Goold (@dgoold) August 10, 2020
What do you think, folks? Would 52 games be enough for this to be a “credible” season? (and 58 for the Tigers and 57 each for the Cubs and Pirates)
Nothing could make this joke credible. This idea to have some half— season was stupid. They should have closed it down and waited for February.
I hope the White Sox enjoy their weekend off coming up.
Compared to 60 games, having the Cards with 52 would be acceptable. Obviously it’s a big blow compared to the usual full season but it may be what we have to accept. You’d have to wonder how it would be looked at if a team played less than 60 games and just made the playoffs, then won the Series, though.
How about a bubble for the post-season? MLB’s top doctor is at least thinking about it.
Could a bubble work for MLB's postseason? "If you were able to get down to a point where you had a limited number of teams for a limited number of games, I think that type of thing could work better,” the league's medical director said. https://t.co/brMdEtFDhC
— NYT Sports (@NYTSports) August 11, 2020
I think a 52 game schedule would be legitimate considering what we have been through and are still going through. I would like for us to get closer to 55 though because I don’t want to listen to the whiny Cub fans when we make the playoffs while only playing 52 games.
As for the playoff bubble, absolutely MLB should do it. I think the entire season should have been in a bubble. I have to blame the MLBPA on that one. They resisted.
gscottar, does it matter that in this scenario, the Cubs would only be playing 57? Then the difference would be just five games.
On the regular season bubble hindsight, do you think all 30 teams would have been better off in Florida and Arizona right now, traveling between their respective spring training camps in the midst of some of the hardest-hit states? I really wonder about that…
gscottar, does it matter that in this scenario, the Cubs would only be playing 57? Then the difference would be just five games.
On the regular season bubble hindsight, do you think all 30 teams would have been better off in Florida and Arizona right now, traveling between their respective spring training camps in the midst of some of the hardest-hit states? I really wonder about that…
Even if it isn’t the Cub fans there will be someone complaining about our lack of 60. We just need to get as close as possible to that number.
I think the only way the bubble could work is if all 30 teams were in one city, kind of like what the NBA is doing in Florida right now. I understand that not all NBA teams are participating and their travel parties are smaller than MLB but I just have to believe that restricting the players to ballpark and hotel only would reduce the chance of transmission. I can’t prove it, just an opinion.
I get your POV, but where is that place that could enable 30 teams to play 60 games each? In the 110-degree heat in Arizona?
There is a reason a bubble might have a chance in the playoffs. Only a few games are played concurrently. In the regular season, it just wasn’t practical, though.
After seven games, Heyman is projecting playoff participants. Is he doing it for any other reason than to stir people up?
Or is he just trying to undermine the winning percentage criteria chosen by MLB?
Amazing how teams have come out of Covid hell to play fantastically. With sweep, #STLCards join Marlins in playoff position.
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) August 15, 2020
I thought he was commenting on the current standings, “Join Marlins in playoff position”, rather than projecting the final postseason participants.
My general take on Heyman is that the majority of his comments are very simplistic and knee-jerk. He seems to be incapable of complex thought. The only reason I follow him is that he is good at quickly putting forward detailed contract information and I use that in the payroll spreadsheets I keep.
Not close to final, but postseason plan at “controlled sites” being discussed, per sources: AL in southern California, NL in Texas. World Series possibly at Rangers’ new ballpark. League talking with union about possibilities. Final plan would be subject to ownership approval.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) August 26, 2020
It only makes too much sense to go to the bubble for the playoffs. There are no fans anyway and having a controlled environment should be useful in keeping any sort of outbreak from happening. Of course it might make for some weird game start times, but that was bound to happen anyway with the expanded playoffs.
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