Basketball, Already?
It's just too soon. It's still football time.
The NBA season is way too long and doesn't matter much to the teams that have a shot at winning the title. I like the intensity of college basketball better, but it's tough to get all that excited about it when the top schools run out basketball all new teams every year (although March Madness is always great).
That being said here's my predictions for the Dallas Mavericks:
Regular season: 62 wins
Playoffs: Lose to the Spurs in 7 games in the Western Conference Finals, Spurs win Championship over whoever comes out of the East.
Bonus Rant: The Cardinals winning the World Series shows just how ridiculous MLB playoffs have become (made worse this season by the unbalanced leagues). After playing for 6 long months, whoever gets hot for 2 weeks wins the title. The Playoffs should crown the best team, or at least one of the best teams. If the top 8 teams were picked for the playoffs 7 would have been from the AL, the only NL team would have been the Mets (who were unfortunately without their top 2 starting pitchers for the playoffs). The Cardinals, winner of 83 regular season games, playing in the far weaker national league (the AL was 154-98 against the NL in interleague play), which really makes their 83 wins no more impressive than Rangers' 80 wins. The Cardinals were not as good as 5 AL teams that didn't even make the playoffs, and have thus earned the title of Worst World Series Champion Ever.
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The NBA season is way too long and doesn't matter much to the teams that have a shot at winning the title. I like the intensity of college basketball better, but it's tough to get all that excited about it when the top schools run out basketball all new teams every year (although March Madness is always great).
That being said here's my predictions for the Dallas Mavericks:
Regular season: 62 wins
Playoffs: Lose to the Spurs in 7 games in the Western Conference Finals, Spurs win Championship over whoever comes out of the East.
Bonus Rant: The Cardinals winning the World Series shows just how ridiculous MLB playoffs have become (made worse this season by the unbalanced leagues). After playing for 6 long months, whoever gets hot for 2 weeks wins the title. The Playoffs should crown the best team, or at least one of the best teams. If the top 8 teams were picked for the playoffs 7 would have been from the AL, the only NL team would have been the Mets (who were unfortunately without their top 2 starting pitchers for the playoffs). The Cardinals, winner of 83 regular season games, playing in the far weaker national league (the AL was 154-98 against the NL in interleague play), which really makes their 83 wins no more impressive than Rangers' 80 wins. The Cardinals were not as good as 5 AL teams that didn't even make the playoffs, and have thus earned the title of Worst World Series Champion Ever.
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posted by Freethinker at 12:02:00 PM
5 Comments:
If what your saying is, "The Yankees should have been in the World Series," I agree.
Not exactly...
wow dude...you are messing with the great game when you come out and rant like this.
here's the deal...we can't fix the systems (whether it be MLB or College Football's crazy bowl games..you tell me that system works? don't think so) but we can get some managers who act as if they want to win the big one. Leyland not pitching Kenny in game 5, the Tiger's pitchers not being able to field or throw to 1st and the inability for the Tigers to take the Cards seriously are all things that COULD be changed. Why do we have the blame the system for this kind of sloppy play/thinking?
In the end, the best team of those two won. I think the Cards proved they were the best team in the NL by beating the Padres and Mets. What more do you want? They played within the rules/systems and won it. I personally would much rather have the 83 win Cards win then the $200 million Yanks.
Thanks for giving me something good to read today! Love you brother!!
You're welcome.
I certainly don't blame the Cardinals. No, I can't fix the system, but it's my blog and I can rant if I want to.
I just don't think a 7 game series is a good way to determine who the better baseball team is (it works well for the NBA though). Compare to other sports, baseball offers a better chance for the lesser team to win. It takes a whole season to sort them out really.
I think they should go to no divisions within a league and play a balanced schedule with on interleague play (no league playoffs). In that case a series between the 2 league winners would make sense. That's what they did before 1969.
I know that's less exciting (less teams in the playoffs), but I like to make where the best teams have the best chance of winning the title.
And a have a great plan to fix college football, but you'll have to wait until later to hear it.
yes, it was quite annoying to see the Cards win out after having such a lousy regular season record... the Tigers literally threw that series away. In any other 7 game series, the Tigers would win it. They swept the Cards during the regular season meeting. But that's the nature of baseball and why it's 3rd or 4th on my list of favorite sports: the worst team can beat the best team at any point in the season (i.e. KC beating up on the Yankees, Twins, Tigers, and White Sox near the end of the regular season.) The sport is too individualistic.
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