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Man, I thought for a while there we weren't going to get one of these this year
2006 Detroit Tigers2007 Colorado RockiesHmmm... you were saying?
jabarony said:
Why don't we just bump the threads from last year instead of creating new ones?any other game of that series wouldn't have. Any Game 7 will beat a regular season game.
So it happened once in baseball? This happens in football way more then in baseball that it isnt even close.
That will happen with 4 team divisions, 16 game seasons, and unbalanced schedules.
Once? Well I listed TWO occasions, AND you could include the 2005 White Sox, who came out of nowhere to win the world series. So actually that's three years in a row. It's not exactly like the Colts came out of nowhere, OR the Patriots for THREE years, OR the Eagles going to 4 NFC championship games. Not to mention the Rams or the Broncos in the late 90's/early 2000's. Hmmm...not a lot of "Worst to First" situations going on there.
The white sox were 2nd in their division in 2004, so they didnt come from "nowhere". How about the Yankees for the last 100 years? How about the Braves winning their division for 13(?) straight years. How about the NFC south the last 4 years?
Yeah, and watching the early games today side by side on both Fox and CBS I noticed that Fox has 10x the commercials that CBS does. CBS will actually stay and provide some coverage during the game even during a timeout where as Fox breaks to commercials every chance they get. I wouldn't be surprised if Fox starts showing 30 second commercials between plays. That being said, it is simply amazing the amount of time that both stations have commercials on at the same time. I need to get Tivo soon, if it was not for watching the live scoring fantasy updates, I could watch both the early and late games in just the amount of time it takes to watch the late game live. Booooooooooooooooooooooooooo fox
Hssssssss.Once we reach this point I think its fairly obvious that both leagues have dynasty's that last for years. Currently the Patriots, formerly teams like the 49ers, Raiders, Steelers, etc. The Yankees haven't actually won a title in awhile, and before Torre got there they were terrible. Not to mention, baseball has been around for much longer than the NFL. Yes the Braves won their division for 13 years, but that had nothing to do with an expensive payroll as was originally stated in the first post. The Braves won because of player development, great coaching, and shrewd managerial decisions. They were middle of the road in payroll. NFC South of the last 4 years is the SAME thing as the AL Central the last 4 years (Twins, Sox, Tigers-yes the Twins won the division but bowed out early in the playoffs, Indians) so that's a mute point. I don't think one can say that parity in the NFL is "so much greater it's not even close" because obviously it has been very close the last 10 years at least.
Hsssssss.
