World Series in November

by devildogamp on Oct 16, 2009 8:50 AM PDT

It looks like the World Series will go into November but how far? If it's a Freeway Series maybe not but a 2 - 5 days. If it's Angels vs. Phillies maybe a repeat of last years mess of a split game and saying grace over a Thanksgiving dinner praying for the Angels to win the series? or worst case scenario Phillies and Yankees, last year right before Christmas the Yankees announced they had signed Mark ummm ... that guy Kendry Morales replaced, this year right Christmas before they could be announcing that the World Series is set to wrap up. Seriously, why would the season be pushed so far back this is rediculous and why wouldn't a team located where it rains who were already building a new stadium worth 1.5 billion dollars (that sounds like a Dr. Evil ransom by the way) put a freakin retractable roof on it? but oh well don't mind me just blowing off steam because it looks like I'm not going to get to watch game 1 or 2 due to rain after waiting all week .

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for the ten-hundredth time....

WBC. The World Baseball Classic set back the MLB season by at least a week this year.

My question to the people who complain about this:
“WHY DOES IT MATTER THAT BASEBALL IS PLAYED IN NOVEMBER???”

Do you have somewhere to be on November 1st? Are you allergic to baseball come November 1st? Is it because you celebrate All-Saints Day? What is it?

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Oct 16, 2009 9:02 AM PDT reply actions

for the thousand-thousandth time

Weather in November is not for baseball unless its just west coast, which unfortunately we can’t exclude east coast teams from post season completely. What is it? not all saints day but WEATHER as I’m almost positive I said before. Look at what happened with the crap fest in Philly last year with the split game, pushing back later only raises the chances of crap like that.

"Boy, did he drop a huge deuce in the stands!" (About a two-run homer)
Rex Hudler

by devildogamp on Oct 16, 2009 9:13 AM PDT up reply actions

The Angels weren’t there last year, so … I didn’t watch more than one at-bat of that entire world series. So, I have no idea of what “crap fest” you speak! ;)

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Oct 16, 2009 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions

The two-day game.

Was flooding, but Selig made sure it went through the fifth and then had them finish the next day.

Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch

by red floyd on Oct 16, 2009 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions

The WBC...

plus FOX’s insistence that the postseason be as long as possible.

I have nothing important to say.

by thrill000 on Oct 16, 2009 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions

"Death to the opposition!" - Commander Worf, First Baseman: The Niners

by Zoe Necrosis on Oct 16, 2009 9:14 AM PDT reply actions

Stuff on your bunny?

THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!

by opiejeanne on Oct 16, 2009 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions

Yeah !!! Pancake's on my head

by eyespy on Oct 16, 2009 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions

They should schedule the Series once the CS’s are done. If hypothetically the ALCS and NLCS both end up being sweeps, there’s an unnecessary 8-day layoff.

Put the Prozac away, what you need is Rat Poison.

by brokenyard on Oct 16, 2009 9:42 AM PDT reply actions

Man, you need to utilize your grammatical friend in punctuation.

If the Angels have to play in slightly colder conditions to get to a World Series title, I’m all for it. So for the time being — and I say this without irony or pun intended — chill, bro…

by shiftyeyedgoat on Oct 16, 2009 10:16 AM PDT reply actions

lol

Seriously don’t mind me. I just hate waiting, I’m anxious.

"Boy, did he drop a huge deuce in the stands!" (About a two-run homer)
Rex Hudler

by devildogamp on Oct 16, 2009 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions

Hey, they should do away with these "hockey" format playoffs

Take it from someone who remembers World Series games in the 1960’s, including Bill Mazeroski’s walkoff….The World Series should end October 9th (unless there is rain).

Here’s how the playoffs should be done:
For a fourteen-team League (American League), you play from April to the end of August, 130 games each team. No inter-league, just a balanced schedule.

After the last day of August, after the 130th game, the TOP six teams enter “Super September”, and they play 30 games, but only again each other (three home, three away). Whoever has the best September after thirty games, goes to the World Series, beginning October 1. The eight “also ran” teams can play inter-league, each other, bring up rookies…they would also finish with 160 games,

This would create a lot of intense baseball in August, not to mention “super-intense” baseball, with sold-out games for the “select six” throughout September. The World Series would be the traditional seven games, as it’s always been.

This “playoffs” crap that MLB invented after the 1994 strike is an unimaginative take on the way the NBA and NHL extend their seasons, and it’s all about GREED! Baseball is not a game that lends it to rounds and rounds of playoffs. It has weather, it has pitching staffs, all sorts of stuff that make it SO UNLIKE hockey or b-ball. You look at the number of “wildcard” teams that made it to the WS (statistically too many) and you look at teams who never played each other in the playoffs, but got eliminated by one play (this year, Holliday’s muff) that had too many repercussions ( a couple of years ago, Derek Lee of the Cubs muffed a play, and the team fell apart).

MLB should have its own unique system, based on more than THREE GAMES after a 162-game season.

"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. " GB Shaw

by One won lost won on Oct 16, 2009 11:43 PM PDT reply actions