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In European football (I refuse to call it soccer) they just give the title to the team with the best record in the regular season. None of this playoffs nonsense.

Wouldn’t be a bad thing, except for all of the money that would be left on the table. There is no way the MLB (or NBA or NFL or NCAA) would ever walk away from that.

I remember the ‘purists’ kvetching about how the World Series could possibly pit an AL and NL teams with the second best record in their respective leagues. It was anathema. Imagine a second place team in the league playing for the championship! If memory serves, that was in the late ‘60s, when MLB split each league into 2 divisions. Today there are 3 divisions and 3 wild card teams in each league.

This year the is the possibility of the 5th place AL team facing the 6 place NL team in the World Series.

There are billions of dollars at stake.
 
As a long time Diamondback fan, I love to see the Dodgers as a dumpster fire...
I really enjoy listening to Steve Berthume and Bob Brenly
especially when they rip on the Dodgers and Rockies!
I enjoyed this season as well and hope they have the Bravado the Phillies possess.
 
In 1993, a 103-win Giants team would have made the playoffs. Instead, they missed out because the Braves won 104 games — and they in turn lost in the NLCS.

It was the 1994 Expos team that got truly robbed by the season-ending strike.
The Indians were also one game out in the AL Central. I always wonder what might have been had there not been a strike.
 
In 1993, a 103-win Giants team would have made the playoffs. Instead, they missed out because the Braves won 104 games — and they in turn lost in the NLCS.

It was the 1994 Expos team that got truly robbed by the season-ending strike.
We lost to the b*****s on the final day of the season...meh!
 
We lost to the b*****s on the final day of the season...meh!

I never fully forgave Dusty Baker for throwing 21 year old rookie Salomon Torres into the fire for Game 162 at Dodger Stadium instead of one of the steadier veterans he could've chosen, like Scott Sanderson. Probably wouldn't have mattered, anyway.

Also, I never forgave the Rockies for 1993. They couldn't beat the Braves one. Single. Time that season.
 
I never fully forgave Dusty Baker for throwing 21 year old rookie Salomon Torres into the fire for Game 162 at Dodger Stadium instead of one of the steadier veterans he could've chosen, like Scott Sanderson. Probably wouldn't have mattered, anyway.

Also, I never forgave the Rockies for 1993. They couldn't beat the Braves one. Single. Time that season.
Same.

And then, later on in the 2002 WS, when he yanked Ortiz and handed him the game ball... still smh over that one...
 

She takes the Marlins to the playoffs and then she's offered a position that would make her SECOND to the president of Baseball ops. Yeah, I would have left too...
 
all this "computerisms" I could not find the game online, got distraught,
then realized there is a TV on a wall infront of me and the game is on FOX™TV

enjoy everyone~
 
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The Marlins are an absolute joke a franchise. Always have been, always will be. Hopefully she lands in a far better situation with another club.
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Just sayin...😁
 
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The Marlins are an absolute joke a franchise. Always have been, always will be. Hopefully she lands in a far better situation with another club.
I now live 90 miles from Miami and don't seeing me going to a game there.
the franchise is not that bad though, just the fan base is tough
because there is not a deep flowing there as Boston NYC and even Minnesota has a stronger presence there.
 
And somehow they've won 2 World Series since coming into the league :mad:. I don't think the sting from the '97 WS will ever go away.

They still have an overall losing record and have never won a division title. Just goes to show you, if you get into the playoffs and get hot, anything can happen. Both times, they beat the Giants in the first round, too.
 
They still have an overall losing record and have never won a division title. Just goes to show you, if you get into the playoffs and get hot, anything can happen. Both times, they beat the Giants in the first round, too.
1997 Divisional series... smh
 
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