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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
If other sports suck, why do you watch them?
Delaying the progression of the playoffs to watch 2 mediocre teams w/mediocre records battle it out to cheer "We're #6!" is asinine to me. When only league or division winners got to play in the postseason it made sense. If a club can't solidify themselves in the top 40% of their half of the league, I don't feel sorry for their imminent vacations. They were fortunate to still have meaningful games past summer.
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The other sports are entertaining in their way. "Suck" is somewhat relative, I admit.
But as OOTP22 told us that Bryant Gumbel once said: "The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love."
And of course a #6 spot is a pathetic joke and abomination. But if you're going to treat it as something of value, there's no point into turning it into a worse joke.
To quote Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (in a letter to his son, March 10, 1746), "Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well."
This caterwauling about expanding the schedule by
one game, an increase of a whopping 0.62%, on a day where no games are scheduled in the first place, seems silly in the extreme. If you can't stand ONE more baseball game, don't watch. But don't wreck for those of us who do care.
Competitions should be settled between competitors. It's not a strange concept, I wouldn't think.