Official Mlb Postseason Thread

Green P1 · October 19, 2009

Is the most exciting year since you started following them in 1995?

Yankees SUCK! I been following the Sox since 2003.

KingDL1 · October 19, 2009

Is the most exciting year since you started following them in 1995?

1969, No I would always rather beat the Red Sox in the post season. But the Yankees have not played the Dodgers since 1981 in the series, and I think if they do this year it will be the 12th meeting of the two in the world series, more then any other two teams. Over 11% of all series played have had these two teams playing each other. This will be a great year for baseball if this series works out just from the tradition and the opposing coasts. Then throw in the Joe Torre twist I can't wait! The Yankees have won 8 of the last 11 World Series played against each other.

I do know this year will be the 40th Yankees appearance in the World Series out of 105.

Green Guy Bass · October 20, 2009

I am starting to get a little jazzed about the idea of Phils / Yankees in the series. I do hope that the Angels make it a long series with New York, because I do like the way they play the game, but I find it hard to believe that they can climb up from an 0-2 hole....even after tonight's 11 inning win. By the way that Phillies 9th was pretty memorable. Good to see Rollins have a clutch moment.

eeally · October 21, 2009

Angels / Phillies......2 best teams

forevereagle · October 21, 2009

Angels / Phillies......2 best teams

Half right if you look at who is winning games.

Quoner · October 21, 2009

Half right if you look at who is winning games.

To be fair he posted this a week ago when.... /checks posting date.... shakes head.

That said, this is shaping up to the best World Series money can buy - and I actually don't mind that as much as I used to.

KingDL1 · October 26, 2009

Welcome the New York Yankees to their 40th appearance in the World Series. :clapping:

forevereagle · October 26, 2009

Welcome the New York Yankees to their 40th appearance in the World Series.

Also known as a series that I will not watch.

KRAM1 · October 26, 2009

Also known as a series that I will not watch.

Will anyone? I am sure the TV ratings will be better with NY in the U.S. Series than the Angels, but I am guessing you will see VERY poor TV ratings. But, what else is new here? Seems US Series ratings have been dropping for awhile, and I am not sure why if baseball is still "America's Favorite Pastime".

I did read an article recently written by a big baseball fan who was bemoaning the fact that, in his opinion, baseball was losing the younger generation because it was so slow and took so long to play a game. Not to mention the exceedingly long season...April-November. The guy seemed to think that today's youth was wanting a much more fast paced game. I don't know, but seems to make a bit of sense to me. I think baseball has become much more a "participant's game" than a spectator game. With one of the games taking 44 min. to play the seventh inning alone (it was a pretty good inning...I have to admit that), I have to think the guy has a point.

Sounds like a good sports research project to me...Is Baseball Losing the Youth of America? I don't know one way or the other but you could start by tracing the percentage participation in Little League, Pony League, American Legion, BBI, Inc., etc., Jr. High and HS programs for participants and then look at attendance and TV ratings...might be interesting, and it might show that baseball remains America's favorite pastime. But...then again...

BeanCounterGrad'03 · October 26, 2009

Will anyone? I am sure the TV ratings will be better with NY in the U.S. Series than the Angels, but I am guessing you will see VERY poor TV ratings. But, what else is new here? Seems US Series ratings have been dropping for awhile, and I am not sure why if baseball is still "America's Favorite Pastime".
I did read an article recently written by a big baseball fan who was bemoaning the fact that, in his opinion, baseball was losing the younger generation because it was so slow and took so long to play a game. Not to mention the exceedingly long season...April-November. The guy seemed to think that today's youth was wanting a much more fast paced game. I don't know, but seems to make a bit of sense to me. I think baseball has become much more a "participant's game" than a spectator game. With one of the games taking 44 min. to play the seventh inning alone (it was a pretty good inning...I have to admit that), I have to think the guy has a point.
Sounds like a good sports research project to me...Is Baseball Losing the Youth of America? I don't know one way or the other but you could start by tracing the percentage participation in Little League, Pony League, American Legion, BBI, Inc., etc., Jr. High and HS programs for participants and then look at attendance and TV ratings...might be interesting, and it might show that baseball remains America's favorite pastime. But...then again...

These are the two big reasons that baseball is my least favorite sport of the big 5 (soccer, football, hockey, basketball, and baseball). By nature, it is such a slow game...too much standing around, not enough action. This is only compounded by the incredibly LONG season. Do we really have to sit through 162 games to get to the exciting part (playoffs). 100 or so games would make alot more sense.

CMJ · October 26, 2009

The length of the season in time isn't really longer than the NHL or NBA though. They go from October to June.

Censored by Laurie · October 26, 2009

I'm planning on sneaking into game 3 through the secret underground tunnel in the Oliday Inn.

BeanCounterGrad'03 · October 26, 2009

The length of the season in time isn't really longer than the NHL or NBA though. They go from October to June.

The pace of MLB games make the season seem alot longer.

Edited October 26, 2009 by BeanCounterGrad'03

forevereagle · October 26, 2009

Will anyone? I am sure the TV ratings will be better with NY in the U.S. Series than the Angels, but I am guessing you will see VERY poor TV ratings. But, what else is new here? Seems US Series ratings have been dropping for awhile, and I am not sure why if baseball is still "America's Favorite Pastime".
I did read an article recently written by a big baseball fan who was bemoaning the fact that, in his opinion, baseball was losing the younger generation because it was so slow and took so long to play a game. Not to mention the exceedingly long season...April-November. The guy seemed to think that today's youth was wanting a much more fast paced game. I don't know, but seems to make a bit of sense to me. I think baseball has become much more a "participant's game" than a spectator game. With one of the games taking 44 min. to play the seventh inning alone (it was a pretty good inning...I have to admit that), I have to think the guy has a point.
Sounds like a good sports research project to me...Is Baseball Losing the Youth of America? I don't know one way or the other but you could start by tracing the percentage participation in Little League, Pony League, American Legion, BBI, Inc., etc., Jr. High and HS programs for participants and then look at attendance and TV ratings...might be interesting, and it might show that baseball remains America's favorite pastime. But...then again...

I enjoy watching baseball, but I hate the Yankees and what they symbolize of the larger problem in baseball. They can spend $200MM on players, while other teams spend $30MM. I can't stand what the game has become. The owners that can, buy as many victories as they can, while the rest sell off their best players to try and save a little money because they couldn't afford to be competitive in the first place. Occasionally, one of the little teams will rise up and give the other teams a run, but they can never sustain and be good for too many consecutive years. Their best players contracts come up and they want more money, so they go to one of the handful of teams that can afford them. I want the Rangers to be good and get a chance to play for it all, but that will probably never happen since they have never been able to build enough fan support to sustain success. If baseball were to institute a salary cap, and there was more parity, then I would probably watch a lot of games without any changes to length.

KRAM1 · October 26, 2009

I enjoy watching baseball, but I hate the Yankees and what they symbolize of the larger problem in baseball. They can spend $200MM on players, while other teams spend $30MM. I can't stand what the game has become. The owners that can, buy as many victories as they can, while the rest sell off their best players to try and save a little money because they couldn't afford to be competitive in the first place. Occasionally, one of the little teams will rise up and give the other teams a run, but they can never sustain and be good for too many consecutive years. Their best players contracts come up and they want more money, so they go to one of the handful of teams that can afford them. I want the Rangers to be good and get a chance to play for it all, but that will probably never happen since they have never been able to build enough fan support to sustain success. If baseball were to institute a salary cap, and there was more parity, then I would probably watch a lot of games without any changes to length.

Sounds like the NBA and the NFL to me...or maybe the NCAA!

forevereagle · October 26, 2009

Sounds like the NBA and the NFL to me...or maybe the NCAA!

The NFL has a cap and teams can not just go out and buy all the best players. The NBA a little, but even they have the luxury tax that discourages this practice.

NCAA, yeah, I can see that.

Green Guy Bass · October 26, 2009

I'm planning on sneaking into game 3 through the secret underground tunnel in the Oliday Inn.

Don't forget your wood grain punch to pre-game.

KingDL1 · October 26, 2009

The NFL has a cap and teams can not just go out and buy all the best players. The NBA a little, but even they have the luxury tax that discourages this practice.
NCAA, yeah, I can see that.

Baseball has a luxury Tax as well