What’s Luck Got To Do, Got To Do With It?
Give a hand to my band, Sexual Chocolate!
Despite my love for the game, there are several things that genuinely bother me about the current rules in Major League Baseball. I’ve never compiled a list of these grievances, but I’m pretty sure that this upcoming decision will eliminate one gripe that belongs in my top-five.
No more flip decisions.Rather than heads or tails, baseball general managers plan to recommend that sites for division and wild-card tiebreakers be decided by wins and losses.
Amazing, isn’t it? The fact that such an inane rule existed to begin with is incredible. Regardless of the extent to which you believe in home field advantage, I don’t think that anyone denies that there is at least some advantage. And to have an edge awarded to one side by the flip of a coin is a disservice.
Now, head-to-head records probably aren’t the best way to go about it either because the results of the 18 regular season games against your divisional opponent, or even worse, the 6-9 games against a team in another division, isn’t enough to determine who’s better. If I had my way (and god knows I don’t), home field will be decided by run differentials. But hey, one step at a time, right? At least the head-to-head records are determined by what happens on the field instead of inside an office at the MLB headquarters here in New York.
Now if they can just eliminate saves and quality starts…
November 7th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I got a special treat for you this evening, a young man that you all know as Joe The Policeman from the What’s Going Down? episode of “That’s My Momma”. I want you to put your hands together and welcome him to the stage, big round of applause, for Jackson Height’s own, Mr. Randy Watson.
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November 7th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
I can’t believe how funny that movie still is to me after all these years.
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November 7th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Whoah! But Paul! Quality starts? Aren’t those at least better than wins???? You’ve just blown my mind. Has my head exploded? Not yet. But the brain cells are definitely ricocheting off the inside of my cranium.
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November 8th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Sarah, there are many stats I’d like to get rid of – not just saves and QS. If you’d like me to rattle them off the top of my head, R, RBI, E, Fielding Percentage, Wins/Losses, Holds, Assists, Put outs, and Sac Flies. And while we’re at it, I’ve also changed my mind on the value of WHIP and OPS – though not horrible, they both value walks and hits equally when that’s just not the case.
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