As you may have read, MLB is toying with the idea of realignment, moving Houston to the AL West and eliminating divisions, so that we would have two 15-team leagues with 5 teams making the playoffs in each league. I cannot describe how much I find this idea to be foolish and poorly considered. As I’ve argued before, the excitement over a long baseball season is the pennant race. Of course, players chasing milestones and batting titles is interesting, but it is a team game and having two or three teams battle it out down to the wire is the essence...
Thursday, 23 June 2011
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Comparing the NHL and NBA Playoffs
Posted on 21:15 by Unknown
I haven't posted anything for a while, since I've been doing little other than a game at Jingu for Stadium Journey. But I did follow the NHL playoffs quite closely and caught a lot of the NBA finals as well. During the past two months, I noticed a number of commentators on Twitter and elsewhere trying to argue for one of these events being "better" than the other. So I'd thought I'd share my take.As I mentioned last month, the two tournaments are quite different. The NHL is a league where parity reigns: 15 out of 16 playoff teams had win totals...
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