I've been off the list so long (too much work getting set up at graduate school) that I feel bad starting off with a negative post. I just have to say that I think it's a big joke to say that the Yankees are division champions in the east. Maybe it doesn't matter, because both teams are in the playoffs and, once you're in, you have to beat everyone anyway. However, the Yankees get to tick this off as another in a great string of Division domination, but, when you think about it, what is the reason for their "championship" in spite of their having the same record as the Red Sox? It's the fact that they won their season series. Think about it, though. They won the season serious against the Sox and both teams finished with the same record. Doesn't that mean the Yankees just did worse against everyone else?
Greg Pellam
hating the Yankees and the Red Sox in Columbus, Ohio
Hello everyone, I've been off the list so long (too much work getting set up at graduate school) that I feel bad starting off with a negative post. I just...
As a Yankee fan to tell you the truth I didn't understand it either. I figured the Yankees would lose today and was right, they lost big time. To me, they...
Didn't this happen a few years ago with the Cards/Stros and the next year they both hung a flag in their stadium? While I love good yankee bashing I disagree...
I am actually surprised that they defer to head to head match-ups. In this corporate world and an even more corporate running of MLB, one would think the...
It's part of the collective bargaining agreement. If both teams make the playoffs, there is no tie-breaker game to establish seeding. However, if the Red Sox...
I thought Cleveland also had to win on Sunday to force the playoff game. Cleveland was swept by the White Sox. I knew New York wasn't going to win on Sunday,...
Once Cleveland lost on Saturday, there couldn't be a three way tie anymore; the Boston New York winner on Saturday would finish ahead of them. Since Boston won...
I'm not against their not playing a game. As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter who plays whom. You should be able to beat everyone if you're going to...
By the ground rules, the Yankees are division champs. Any tie for first place has to be broken, whether it be by another game or by head to head record. That's...
Yeah, I don't understand the discussion over this. Ties have been, at least for quite a while, decided via the best head-to-head record...this is not a new...
Actually, before the wild card, all ties were broken with at least one play off game, more in the most famous play off when Bobby Thompson hit the "shot heard...
Just lazy sportswriters whining over losing another Yankee/Red Sox story. There are six other teams in the playoffs and a couple of near misses to write...
Seems how I started the topic, I will comment. My original comment was not to say the current method was unfair. I had wondered why the networks didn't push...
God Zvi you writing that the Yankees are division champs must have been so hard for you to do since what a month ago you stated that they weren't going to make...
it does not matter anyway cause the yankees will not be there in the end.. ... have been so hard for you to do since what a month ago you stated that they...
Yeah but the fact that they are in is what I am talking about. Remember, this team was once as bad as the Dodgers... I never said anything about winning a...
a 200 mil team better be in the playoffs or heads will roll. so far the best series is atl vs hou. ... Remember, this team was once as bad as the Dodgers... I...
Yeah they should be and I think if they weren't Torre would be out of a job right now. A team with that high of a payroll looks good on paper but they still...
I'm a Yankee fan and I don't understand it either. I would have liked one team to have won it over the other and not to be called champs when they have the...
Further to my previous answer, just how would you decide who plays the Angels and who plays the White Sox? However you decide this is de facto a tie breaker....
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