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Offline sizzlin

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #175: October 15, 2014, 07:06:58 PM »
What happened to KC? Are they ever going to lose again?

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #176: October 15, 2014, 07:07:18 PM »
Royals on fire.

Offline spidernat

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« Reply #177: October 15, 2014, 07:07:43 PM »
8 in a row.  :shock:  We couldn't even get to 2 in a row.  :bang:

Look at all those "diehard" royals fans.  :lmao:

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #178: October 15, 2014, 07:07:58 PM »
Good pitching beats good hitting

I don't get baseball. So what's the formula to win? Just build a mediocre enough team to squeak in the playoffs and pray that players who have been bad all year turn into hall of fame superstars for a few weeks?

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #179: October 15, 2014, 07:08:22 PM »
Has anyone won 4 straight in an LCS since the '04 Sox?

Offline sportsfan882

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« Reply #180: October 15, 2014, 07:09:06 PM »
:idiot:
why? What I said is exactly what happens time and time again.

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #181: October 15, 2014, 07:09:16 PM »
8 in a row.  :shock:  We couldn't even get to 2 in a row.  :bang:

Look at all those "diehard" royals fans.  :lmao:

....   and they won the last two in '85.    ;)

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #182: October 15, 2014, 07:09:56 PM »
I don't get baseball. So what's the formula to win? Just build a mediocre enough team to squeak in the playoffs and pray that players who have been bad all year turn into hall of fame superstars for a few weeks?
You know what, SF? Every pro sports league has playoffs, and in the playoffs, what happened in the regular season does not matter, so unless you're advocating for the regular season wins leader to be the champion without a postseason, shut up and get your head out of your ass. 

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« Reply #183: October 15, 2014, 07:10:08 PM »
Has anyone won 4 straight in an LCS since the '04 Sox?

tigers have had a couple of sweeps since. The rockies also.

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« Reply #184: October 15, 2014, 07:12:27 PM »
You know what, SF? Every pro sports league has playoffs, and in the playoffs, what happened in the regular season does not matter, so unless you're advocating for the regular season wins leader to be the champion without a postseason, shut up and get your head out of your ass. 
Agreed. Just makes the regular season completely pointless IMO. Best strategy is to punt all year like the Royals and go on a fluke run in October. Regular season success like you said means nothing. There's no point in trying to build a team that wins 100 regular season games. We need a team that can win 11 (or 12) playoff games.

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« Reply #185: October 15, 2014, 07:13:22 PM »
Oh of course - Rockies were unbeatable that fall. Until *that*
tigers have had a couple of sweeps since. The rockies also.

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #186: October 15, 2014, 07:15:59 PM »
I have always been a fan of the royals, very happy for them. hope they win it all.

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #187: October 15, 2014, 07:19:09 PM »
The Scorpions?!?   :lol:

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #188: October 15, 2014, 07:20:36 PM »
Wait, I thought you had to get back to back #1 overalls to go to the World Series?

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« Reply #189: October 15, 2014, 07:20:53 PM »
Did she just say that she never expected she would ever give Glass the AL trophy? :lmao:

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #190: October 15, 2014, 07:22:56 PM »
How many baseball writers are gonna have to eat massive plates of crow for crapting on Dayton Moore for his entire tenure?

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #191: October 15, 2014, 07:27:58 PM »
I don't get baseball. So what's the formula to win? Just build a mediocre enough team to squeak in the playoffs and pray that players who have been bad all year turn into hall of fame superstars for a few weeks?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%9312_Los_Angeles_Kings_season

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306_Edmonton_Oilers_season

Offline KnorrForYourMoney

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #192: October 15, 2014, 07:31:41 PM »
You know what, SF? Every pro sports league has playoffs, and in the playoffs, what happened in the regular season does not matter, so unless you're advocating for the regular season wins leader to be the champion without a postseason, shut up and get your head out of your ass. 

You know what - I'm not even saying this tongue-in-cheek - I can see where SF is coming from here.  It's somewhat frustrating as Nats fans to see the team dominate the regular season and have these wild card teams totally blow them by.

That said, the Royals just dominated two of the best teams in baseball en route to winning arguably the better of the two Leagues.  Hard to really say that it's a fluke or that they're "mediocre" or anything.  They're a good team that put it together at the right moment.

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #193: October 15, 2014, 07:38:53 PM »
In most major soccer leagues there are no playoffs - best record over the season wins.  Granted there are all sorts of elimination tournaments in addition to that, but the league championship is simply a matter of the best team over the entire season getting the trophy.   
You know what, SF? Every pro sports league has playoffs, and in the playoffs, what happened in the regular season does not matter, so unless you're advocating for the regular season wins leader to be the champion without a postseason, shut up and get your head out of your ass. 

Offline sportsfan882

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« Reply #194: October 15, 2014, 07:42:54 PM »
You know what - I'm not even saying this tongue-in-cheek - I can see where SF is coming from here.  It's somewhat frustrating as Nats fans to see the team dominate the regular season and have these wild card teams totally blow them by.

That said, the Royals just dominated two of the best teams in baseball en route to winning arguably the better of the two Leagues.  Hard to really say that it's a fluke or that they're "mediocre" or anything.  They're a good team that put it together at the right moment.
They were mediocre for 162 games, I'm mainly referring to their lineup.

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #195: October 15, 2014, 07:45:27 PM »
In most major soccer leagues there are no playoffs - best record over the season wins.  Granted there are all sorts of elimination tournaments in addition to that, but the league championship is simply a matter of the best team over the entire season getting the trophy.   

I like the FA Cup.

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #196: October 15, 2014, 07:54:05 PM »
They were mediocre for 162 games, I'm mainly referring to their lineup.

16 games over .500 in the tougher of the two Leagues is "mediocre" now.  Got it.

Offline mitlen

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #197: October 15, 2014, 08:06:15 PM »
16 games over .500 in the tougher of the two Leagues is "mediocre" now.  Got it.

89 wins gets 'em in everywhere.

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #198: October 15, 2014, 08:13:00 PM »
You know what - I'm not even saying this tongue-in-cheek - I can see where SF is coming from here.  It's somewhat frustrating as Nats fans to see the team dominate the regular season and have these wild card teams totally blow them by.
Boo freaking hoo. The playoffs work fine so long as the best team's offense shows up and the manager doesn't make stupid pitching changes. No Nats fan has any right to nag about the playoffs after that turrible showing this year.

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Re: Postseason Discussion Thread
« Reply #199: October 15, 2014, 08:16:39 PM »
So we should build a team around failed prospects Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas, Alcides Escobar, etc. Got it. Whatever the Nats are doing clearly isn't working. 3 wasted years in a row.