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Old 10-01-2015, 02:42 PM   #1983
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Originally Posted by scho63 View Post
Congrats to you Cards fans.

It was fun while it lasted but this will be another short post season for my Pirates IMHO with a loss in the wild card. I just don't see how we beat Arrieta the way he is pitching. He is beyond human since the all star break.

This format sucks. We are the SECOND BEST team in baseball and get to play one lousy game in the playoffs.
I have a hard time buying that argument in the era of the unbalanced schedule.

The Pirates played the Cardinals 19 times this year. 12% of the Pirates schedule was against the Cards. They had every opportunity to settle it on the field and they didn't do enough.

If you can't win your division, you shouldn't be guaranteed a playoff series - I don't care how good your record was. I recognize that they would've won every other division, but they controlled their own destiny w/r/t winning the Central and in the end, they just didn't win enough of the head to head matchups against the Cardinals or the Cubs.

This is much MUCH better than the old days where the wild card faced no penalty at all for not being the best team in their division. There should be an added incentive to being the best team in the division over 162 games and there wasn't one until the play-in game was put in place.

And bad news, Bucs fans - if you can't get it done this year, your window is closing up on you. You're not as young as people think you are, the reinforcements have largely dried up on the farm and the Cubs are charging. By the time the Cardinals age, the Cubs will have blown past both of us.
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