World Series Watch.

[UNTITLEDPROJECT]

As a Met fan. This is making me sick.

Anthony Reyes is owning the Tigers?

 

[UNTITLEDPROJECT]

Answer:

*- NY Yankees
Toronto
Boston
x- Minnesota
y- Detroit
Chicago Sox
x- Oakland
LA Angels
*- NY Mets
Philadelphia
y- LA Dodgers
x- San Diego

 

[TheIrishHammer]

 

[UNTITLEDPROJECT]

What are teams that had a better record than the friggan Cardinals this season.

Ill take Why I Hate The Friggan Cardinals for 800, Alex.

 

[Óglaigh_na_hÉireann]

The Cardinals were given practically 0 chance by the public and media to win the world series or even come close.. so it should come as no surprise that they are leading 3-1. This stuff is predictable. When I saw the ESPN poll asking "who will win the world series?" and the entire country with the exception of Missouri went with Detroit, it was enough to convince me that St. Louis would pull it off.

And so far, it's looking like they might.

Hopefully we'll (the Indians) be able to get Belliard back in the offseason.

 

[Clotho]

Selig really ruined baseball. The Cards had the 12th most wins this season over 162 games. That's a long enough time to judge that if a team is 12th, they're not the best team in the league, by any stretch of the imagination. He messed up the divisions and added the wild card to "keep fanbases interested." It's worked, but in the meantime the championship has become much less meaningful.

 

[Clotho]

And I say that as a Cubs fan whose team actually has a chance to compete now with the added playoff spots. It's just bad for baseball, wild card winners and 83 win teams winning the series seemingly every season.

 

[Vince Young]

Hey, if supposedly "great" teams can't even beat a frickin' Wild Card team in the playoffs, why should they even be considered "great" to begin with?

Who cares if the Cardinals only won 83 games in the regular season? When the heat got turned up, all the "great" teams folded like lawn chairs. (I'm lookin' at you, Steinbrenner.) Meanwhile, the Cardinals won games when it counted the most.

That's what champions do.

 

[Clotho]

Hey, if supposedly "great" teams can't even beat a frickin' Wild Card team in the playoffs, why should they even be considered "great" to begin with?

Maybe because baseball isn't the sort of sport in which the best team always wins over a short period of time? Hence, by FAR the longest regular season of any sport, because that's how long it takes to see who the best teams are. Over 162 games, the Cardinals had the 12th most wins in the league. That doesn't necessarily mean they're only 12th best, but it DOES mean they're nowhere near one of the best few teams. "Champions" don't lose something like 13 of their last 15 to blow all but one game of a 10 game lead; nor do they finish 4 games over .500; nor do they get dominated all year by one of the worst Cubs teams I've ever seen; nor do they have only the 12th most wins in the league.

You're bringing a football mentality to baseball, where it doesn't fit. In baseball the best team does NOT always win in a short series, it's about 50/50, which is why it's up to baseball to keep "better than average" teams out of the playoffs, as they always had prior to '95.

 

[jiggafini19]

I wanted the Tigers to win, but somewhere along the line I remembered how much I don't like Kenny Rogers, Ivan Rodriguez and Craig Monroe.

And to see the White Sox and Cardinals win World Series back to back makes a lot of my obnoxious Cub fan friends miserable.

And Quiet.

 

[UNTITLEDPROJECT]

The American League is so weak.

 

[jiggafini19]

The American League is so weak.

You know, I honestly thought the NL would not stand a chance regardless of who came out of there.

Just goes to show how bizarre baseball is. The one sport that is without a question the most difficult to predict.

 

[UNTITLEDPROJECT]

Metropolitans in 07.

 

[jiggafini19]

Metropolitans in 07.

With that fat wallet they have, it is surely possible.

 

[tommy]

id rather watch white paint dry

 

[TheIrishHammer]

id rather watch white paint dry

RACIST!

 

[tommy]

i figured you would be the one to make that remark

 

[tommy]

your the new ralphwaldo hammer

 

[Guest]

Ratings have been a disaster, on pace to be the lowest rated World Series ever. Those of you who want a salary cap need to rethink that, look at how bad the ratings are for two fairly decent markets, just imagine how bad they'd be if teams like the Royals or Brewers were in the Series.

Sorry folks baseball is just for the big to middle market teams right now, its not a spectator sport like football where people will just watch any team play. The luxury tax is about the best thing you'll ever see come close to a cap, unless baseball wants to televise the world series on the WB(not sure the WB would even want it if small markets were in it)

Fox looks like a bunch of clowns right now for renegotiating their contract with MLB for another 7 years at 2.1 billion dollars before the old one even expired. They must've been basing all those ratings on the Yanks/ Red Sox games over the years, and Cubs.

 

[tommy]

i was wondering that last night queens. how many more people watched the clemson va tech game then the series. got any number comparisons on that ?.

 

[jiggafini19]

Ratings have been a disaster, on pace to be the lowest rated World Series ever.

Every year they say this if the Yankees aren't involved. Since 2002, only the 04 Boston-STL series had "good" ratings. Ratings sucked last year, too. I was too busy to notice because my team was winning.

Queens, you're dead on.

I watch the World Series every year regardless of who is playing. Some matchups are more intriguing than others, but baseball is baseball.

Only series I haven't watched since 1995? You guessed it.

2000.

 

[Clotho]

Maybe fans want to watch the best teams? Not an 83 win joke.

Outside the Lines just showed a graphic- since 1995 (introduction of the Wild Card), the team with the best record has won the Series only one time. That's just horrible. What a meaningless championship.

 

[jiggafini19]

Maybe fans want to watch the best teams? Not an 83 win joke.

Outside the Lines just showed a graphic- since 1995 (introduction of the Wild Card), the team with the best record has won the Series only one time. That's just horrible. What a meaningless championship.

Contract about 6 teams and you're in business.

 

[dyrtdogg]

If the Cards are an 83 win joke, what does that make the team at the bottom of their division?

 

[Óglaigh_na_hÉireann]

On the issue of ratings, I can't help but think they aren't going to ever get any better. Most likely they'll just worsen until they level off somewhere. I hate to say it, but baseball truly is a past-time. Kids just don't find it nearly as interesting as football or basketball, which they prefer to play and watch...and I think even soccer has eclipsed baseball in terms of how many kids are playing it.

 

[Vince Young]

Maybe because baseball isn't the sort of sport in which the best team always wins over a short period of time?

Okay, take it back to where it was before: 4 divisions, only divisional champs in the playoffs. What do you have? 4 teams who are STILL playing over a SHORT period of time (shorter, actually, since 2 rounds is shorter than 3) to determine which team is better. What, exactly, is different?

And if you can't use a short series to determine which team is better, than the whole concept of a playoff becomes pointless anyway! Just do away with it altogether. Ladies & gentlemen, I present to you the 2006 baseball champions... the New York Yankees! (Oh, whoops, the New York Mets had the exact same record. Gee, how will we figure out which team is better? Hey, I know! How 'bout a best-of-seven series?)

Besides... name me ANY sport where "the best team always wins over a short period of time." Every sport has upsets. The best teams in any sport are the ones that keep upsets from happening to THEM. The best teams are the ones who when it matters most find a way, any way, to just. Win. Period.

I still stand by my original argument. I don't care if a team wins more low-pressure regular season games than anyone else. If that same team turns out to be incapable of winning against a lowly Wild Card team under higher pressure, I don't call them champions... I call them the Indianapolis Colts.

If Detroit was so good, they would've beaten St. Louis. For that matter, if the Yankees were so good, they would've beaten Detroit. That's why they play the games.

 

[TheIrishHammer]

I know this sounds crazy, but I'm picking the Cards to win it in 5 games.

 

[Vince Young]

I know this sounds crazy, but I'm picking the Cards to win it in 5 games.

Care to put a wager on that, good sir?

 

[TheIrishHammer]

Care to put a wager on that, good sir?

Yes. I'm willing to wager my entire IrishEnvy bankroll on the outcome. If you'd like, I'll take the Europeans in the Ryder Cup.

 

[Vince Young]

Ladies & gentlemen, you heard it here first: TheIrishHammer predicts that the Cardinals will repeat as champs next year, winning the 2007 World Series in 5 games! A bold prediction for sure, but boldness is what TheIrishHammer is known for.