Fuck them both?

5 hours ago, Texsox said:

Playoffs are just fake drama. 162 games are meaningless once you add any type of playoff. What difference does it make if it's two teams or twelve? You just decided a team with a worse record could be the champion. Unless there is a tie there is nothing to playoff. Play a balanced season against every MLB team and the team with the most wins is the champion. 

 

I agree with you if the playoff series are 3 or 5 games. It’s so damned stupid and it always comes down to one great starter having one bad inning or one offense going cold for one game. 

I would do a radical solution: shorten the season to 148 games, have 16 teams get in, and have the first two series 7 games and the last two 9. I like playoffs, but let’s make the series actually long enough so that the corrections even out. That’s just me though.

Edited July 29, 20223 yr by Greg Hibbard

On 7/27/2022 at 8:05 PM, caulfield12 said:

Even if you combined the Sox Royals and TigerI into a "megateam", you still might not beat the Yankees Astros and Blue Jays when they're hot offensively.

This is intriguing. I wonder if an AL Central All-Star team could beat the Yankees and Astros and win it all this season? I imagine Cease and Bieber would be your top 2 starters. Who would be the manager, Franconia or Hinch?

19 minutes ago, chetkincaid said:

This is intriguing. I wonder if an AL Central All-Star team could beat the Yankees and Astros and win it all this season? I imagine Cease and Bieber would be your top 2 starters. Who would be the manager, Franconia or Hinch?

Buxton

Arraez/Abreu

Jose Ramirez

Carlos Correa/Anderson

Josh Naylor

Andres Gimenez 2B

Luis Robert RF

Haase or MJ Melendez C

Benintendi LF

Witt, Jr. 

 

Joe Ryan

McKenzie/Bieber

Kopech/Cueto

Emmanuel Clase

Dylan Cease

Andrew Chafin

Hendriks/Graveman

Jhoan Duran

Gregory Soto

Tarik Skubal

Singer Staumont Barlow

Edited July 29, 20223 yr by caulfield12

2 minutes ago, chetkincaid said:

This is intriguing. I wonder if an AL Central All-Star team could beat the Yankees and Astros and win it all this season? I imagine Cease and Bieber would be your top 2 starters. Who would be the manager, Franconia or Hinch?

Tony La Russa is a legitimate Hall of Famer, brother, and has earned the right to manage and name the team's coaching staff. However, ownership has voted 4-1 that he cannot name the roster or lineup, as it would include Leury and others of questionable ability.

Lineup: DH T. Anderson LF L. Robert 3B J. Ramirez CF B. Buxton SS C. Correa 1B J. Abreu C S. Perez 2B A. Gimenez RF M. Kepler

Bench: INF LF L. Arraez 3B  SS B. Witt 2B J. Polanco C MJ Melandez

Rotation: D. Cease; S. Bieber; T. Skubal; J. Ryan; T. McKenzie

Bullpen:  9 E. Clase; 8 L. Hendriks; 7 R. Lopez; RP A. Chafin; J. Duran; M. Fulmer; E. Morgan; T. Stephan

8 hours ago, Greg Hibbard said:

I agree with you if the playoff series are 3 or 5 games. It’s so damned stupid and it always comes down to one great starter having one bad inning or one offense going cold for one game. 

I would do a radical solution: shorten the season to 148 games, have 16 teams get in, and have the first two series 7 games and the last two 9. I like playoffs, but let’s make the series actually long enough so that the corrections even out. That’s just me though.

That could be fun. 

It will be interesting if one of the two decide to go for the division at the trade deadline.  That would put Hahn into the stupid trade mode.

Guardians all the way. I'm a huge fan of Terry Francona. I think if we switched managers, the Sox would have an 8 game lead

in the division over the Twins. Guardians would be about 20 games back.