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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
I know it ain't the same. But the claim it wasn't decided by competition is a falsehood. Post all the words & paragraphs you want, it was decided on the field.
I know you will deny it.
And the "if they had known" is a bull crap excuse. Bills & Ravens opened the season together. And you know what they were talking about? That this game could matter for home field & be the diff in a SB appearance. You stay ready, you don't have to get ready. If the Mets had known......looks like the Reds knew.
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In case you missed it, the NFL is not MLB. As Bill James wrote back before WWE's Class of 1985 (Reigns, McIntyre, Cody, the Usos) was born, "If baseball teams only played 16 games per season, Steve Carlton would start every game for the Phillies." The frequency of the schedule is a huge influence on the tactics involved. The violent contact of the 1890s went away once baseball teams realized it was unsustainable over a longer schedule.
And no, the
tie was not resolved on the field. It was resolved by over-prioritizing old data. I'm sorry the idea of a game 163 has you ****ting your boxers ("NOOOOO! Not more baseball! I can't takes no more!") but that's a
you problem, not a
me problem.
(And BULL-FREAKIN'-SPIT at the idea that the Reds won those games in July [I looked it up] because they were all "hey, we might tie the Mets for a Wild Card…we'd better bring it!" while the Mets were all "la-la-la, we're retiring David Wright's number, who cares about some game?"
All that happened that the random schedule happened to bring the Reds to New York while the Mets were fighting through a larger [10-20] skid. If the Reds had shown up five weeks later, when they were dropping 8 of 9 near the end of August, the Mets' [hypothetical] whacking of them wouldn't have been about the Reds not "staying ready" or any similar horse-hockey…and the scuffling Reds of late Aiugust wouldn't have been any more relevant to the teams' overall capabilities than the stumbliing Mets of the previous month and should not be the sole determinant of the pennant any more than any other random 1/27th of the whole. FFS.)