Go Cardinals!

Great series and absolutely EPIC game by Carp and Halladay. The Cards are incredibly resilient and clutch this year, and I have no doubt that the Brew Crew will be their toughest remaining test because the AL is weak. To think I had given up on baseball once BYU football started....

Rangerzzzzzzzzzz.

Yet again, we play an entire season to see who the best team is and the teams who proved it over the entire season get beat by the team hottest right now.



Playoffs = meaningless regular season

SpiffCoug wrote:
Yet again, we play an entire season to see who the best team is and the teams who proved it over the entire season get beat by the team hottest right now.



Playoffs = meaningless regular season

In which sport is this not true though? Hockey, oh yeah upsets all the time. Football--one game decides it so you get plenty of upsets there too. NCAA--upsets galore.



The only sport that usually crowns the best team is the NBA, which is why it tends to be boring (last year excluded).



Playoffs are what they are. Do you just want to shut it down at the end of the season and declare a winner?

Why not?

SpiffCoug wrote:
Why not?

You'd have to determine everything subjectively, that's why.

mizzoucoug wrote:

Why not?

You'd have to determine everything subjectively, that's why.

Really? You couldn't balance the schedules so every team had the exact same schedule so the team with the best record would be the champion.



Here's a hypothetical. There are 30 MLB teams. If you played every other team twice (one home series and one away series) you'd play 156 games.



Or you could do it completely separate by league. You play every other team in the league in two home/away series. The two league champions square off in two home/away series to determine the overall champion.

Because a playoff is more fun, and more money! :)

Schmoe wrote:
Because a playoff is more fun, and more money! :)

Dang it! I knew I was forgetting something. Maybe I'd like playoffs more if my teams were better in them (I'm looking at you Phillies).

i hope the cards win...iam super excited to see my hometown White Sox just hired my all time fav player Robin Ventura yesssssssssssssss.

BYUBALLIN wrote:
i hope the cards win...iam super excited to see my hometown White Sox just hired my all time fav player Robin Ventura yesssssssssssssss.

I'm just excited to see the White Sox and Rangers play next year to see if Robin Ventura and Nolan Ryan shake hands.



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SpiffCoug wrote:
Yet again, we play an entire season to see who the best team is and the teams who proved it over the entire season get beat by the team hottest right now.



Playoffs = meaningless regular season

Playoffs = Added revenue and excitement for the fans. Whoever said it was to determine the "best" team.

SpiffCoug wrote:
Yet again, we play an entire season to see who the best team is and the teams who proved it over the entire season get beat by the team hottest right now.



Playoffs = meaningless regular season

I think the Rangers could make a strong argument that they were in fact the best team in the AL during the regular season when they were all healthy.



Anyways, the last I checked, you play the games to win, not to see who is the best. That's what the playoffs are abouts--winning games, pennants, and trophies....not about proving who is the "best."

Can't wait for tonight. The Rangers are a good team, but still not as tough as we've faced in these playoffs. Stacking up the remaining 3 games looks good for us.



Game 5: Carpenter is a monster on the road & we own their ace.

Game 6: Back in St. Louis. Garcia is only any good at home so that's positive.

Game 7: In St. Louis, but we might be looking at an all-bullpen game vs. whoever the Rangers send out there (I just pray it's not another lefty!)



I'll take those odds any day. Go Cards!!!

mizzoucoug wrote:
Game 5: Carpenter is a monster on the road & we own their ace.

CJ Wilson was 8-2 at home this season, but 8-5 on the road in more "pitcher-friendly" parks. He has an ERA of 3.69 in Arlington--the most "hitter-friendly" park in all of baseball.



Compare that to your "monster" on the road who went 7-6 away from home this season with an ERA almost a full-point higher than when he pitches away from home, and allows more than double the HRs on the road than at home in St. Louis. In the three most "hitter-friendly" parks he played in the NL this season (he didn't play at Coors, so I only looked at Chase, Minute Maid, and Great American), Carpenter had four starts and went 2-2 with an ERA of over 5.2.



This game 5 will be closer than most are thinking--Accuscore has Texas as a 56% favorite tonight.

Well we blew game 5 with terrible hitting and almost blew game 6 too, but WOW what a game.



Best World Series game I have ever heard of!!!

Did anyone else think Cruz should have caught that ball in the bottom of the 9th? It looked like he was afraid of hitting the wall.

SpiffCoug wrote:
Did anyone else think Cruz should have caught that ball in the bottom of the 9th? It looked like he was afraid of hitting the wall.

Yes. Absolutely should've been caught. When you have a chance to make a World Series ending catch the wall should not be a concern.



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snoscythe wrote:

Did anyone else think Cruz should have caught that ball in the bottom of the 9th? It looked like he was afraid of hitting the wall.

Yes. Absolutely should've been caught. When you have a chance to make a World Series ending catch the wall should not be a concern.



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I was thinking the same thing. He seemed a little lackadaisical at first and by the time he decided to get on his horse and move, it was too late. You gotta bust your @$$ for that ball!

Game Set Match! Cards win it all Baby!



Great series Rangers but nobody messes with St. Louis when it comes to baseball.