MLB Postseason

[The Brain]

Originally posted by JimmyBlueEyes
Sad to say, for the fans of some of the teams that haven't won in ages, there have been people who have lived their entire lives without seeing their team win it all. Sad, sad, sad.

To which I say, sucks to be them.

You mean to say that if the Metropolitans (God forbid) were playing deep into the postseason year after year, and winning World Series like crazy, that one day you would wake up and say, "Gee, maybe the Mets should take this year off... the Expos deserve to win this year. Or maybe the Cardinals or Astros, since they haven't been there in a while."?

I didn't think so.

This is the world of sports we are talking about. And in every sport where there is meant to be a sense of finality, there has to be <b>one</b> clear-cut winner, one person or organization to represent the pinnacle, and everyone else to be the also-rans.

Why do you think the college football landscape is always being argued, when the BCS system can't figure out an undisputed #1 team? Would you prefer the major sports adopt that sort of free-form, non-playoff format, where every year two teams with good records are arbitrarily selected by a computer to play in a "championship" game? Would this be acceptable even if one or more teams with better records were then forced to play in lesser games as some of sort of consolation reward?