Baseball Season 2011

[Syt]

Still, you see a lot more people with MLB apparel (caps, mostly - and there Yankees dominate by far) than NFL apparel over here. Teamspotting is a bit of a sport for me on my way to/from work.

Seen any Winnipeg Jets gear yet?  New or old.   

No, but I've seen someone read an article in an Austrian hockey paper about the new Jets' logo/branding.

[The Minsky Moment]

Yankees Suck!

That's what the Rays keep saying.

But it is hard to hear over the wailing and lamentation coming out of Boston.

[Valmy]

We're not the champions my friend
but we screwed the Red Sox in the end

[Grey Fox]

Gawd, MLB needs more playoff teams.

[Valmy]

Gawd, MLB needs more playoff teams.

Oh bullshit.  With a 162 game season what they need are less playoff teams.

[Grey Fox]

Gawd, MLB needs more playoff teams.

Oh bullshit.  With a 162 game season what they need are less playoff teams.

Blablabla. 4 team is boring. No rivalry, no excitment. Contraction or more Playoff teams!

[Valmy]

Blablabla. 4 team is boring. No rivalry, no excitment. Contraction or more Playoff teams!

What do fewer playoff teams have to do with rivalry or excitement?  Hell yesterday was one of the most exciting days in sports I have seen in awhile.  Three legendary games at once.

[Syt]

For Tim:

[Valmy]

Sometimes I wonder what teams people in Montana like.  I mean they are near nothing.

[derspiess]

Cards managed to get the Wild Card I'm a bit surprised.

  Only downer is that Pujols dropped to .299 after last night.  Had he stayed at .300 he would've had .300+ BA in each of his 11 seasons in the MLB.

They seem to do better when I'm not watching them.  Probably performance anxiety.

I wrote them off, too.  I deleted the MLB At Bat app from my phone and shifted them over on my ESPN favorite teams so my football, hockey, basketball teams show up first (I tend to do this anyway as seasons end).  But just when I did that, they hit their streak & the Braves imploded. 

Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to keep myself from watching them play the Phillies.  So it'll be Phillies in 3 for sure.

[derspiess]

Sometimes I wonder what teams people in Montana like.  I mean they are near nothing.

I'd imagine Rockies or possibly Mariners.  Or whatever minor league team they have out their way.

[Barrister]

Sometimes I wonder what teams people in Montana like.  I mean they are near nothing.

From living in Yukon, favourite teams tend to be a mish-mash.  Slight preference for BC / Washington-based teams because in the old days those were the games you'd get on television, but mostly based on your former home town / family roots or what teams were hot when you were a kid.

[Grey Fox]

Blablabla. 4 team is boring. No rivalry, no excitment. Contraction or more Playoff teams!

What do fewer playoff teams have to do with rivalry or excitement?  Hell yesterday was one of the most exciting days in sports I have seen in awhile.  Three legendary games at once.

It creates them. It was exciting for 6 teams in a league of 30? :

[Valmy]

It creates them. It was exciting for 6 teams in a league of 30? :

Yeah because the last day of the NHL regular season is thrilling for every single team.  So much at stake.

[derspiess]

Blablabla. 4 team is boring. No rivalry, no excitment. Contraction or more Playoff teams!

What do fewer playoff teams have to do with rivalry or excitement?  Hell yesterday was one of the most exciting days in sports I have seen in awhile.  Three legendary games at once.

It creates them. It was exciting for 6 teams in a league of 30? :

The season itself is long enough, and 8 playoff teams (don't forget the wild cards) out of 30 is plenty.

edit: Hell, baseball purists are still bitching about having wild card teams in the playoffs, and want to reduce it to 6, with the top NL and AL teams each getting a bye.