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Where will we be in ten years?

jleves said:
All sports will be played by a couple of guys on iPads, but because or AI, it will look real. We'll still go to stadiums or watch on TV as the holograms act it out. Vegas will make a fortune.
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Ha! What are we gambling with? Universal Basic Income? I used to starve and save the lunch money my parents gave me to buy albums.
 
navery12 said:
I think so, you're the first person I've heard that doesn't like the changes, though I'm sure there are more.

Confused by your last sentence though, the wild card round was never 7 games, it was 1 game when it was 2 wild card teams and now is 3 games
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My point is that instead of the expanded playoffs which cheapens the regular season, why couldn't they just have extended the division series from 5 to 7 games for more playoff inventory? Where the wild card winner played the worst division winner. Back from when it started in what 95, 96?

I have no issue with the pace of play, in fact it's a good thing. I don't like the expanded rosters to 26 because it just lends itself to bullpen minutia, the extra innings changes, constant interleague play (not exactly recent) as far as formal changes.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
My point is that instead of the expanded playoffs which cheapens the regular season, why couldn't they just have extended the division series from 5 to 7 games for more playoff inventory? Where the wild card winner played the worst division winner. Back from when it started in what 95, 96?

I have no issue with the pace of play, in fact it's a good thing. I don't like the expanded rosters to 26 because it just lends itself to bullpen minutia, the extra innings changes, constant interleague play (not exactly recent) as far as formal changes.
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Does it really cheapen the regular season though? Baseball still has the smallest percentage of playoff teams that get in, reducing that even more seems crazy to me. That's what cheapens the regular season IMO, when it's June 1 and half the league is already out of the playoff hunt and trading away half the team, and another 5-10 teams are giving up by the end of July. Now unless you're a bottom of the league team you're keeping most of your players, keeping fans interested and are still realistically in the playoff hunt until September
 
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Hunt for 7 said:
Have not seen this one yet. Unfortunately it may be somewhat prophetic of what lies ahead for humanity. Maybe the machines will take care of us maybe they won’t.
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Rode my first driverless Uber in Austin last week. Talk about a taste of the future. Of course it didn’t sense an ambulance trying to make its way through and was honking at any car that got close to it. Has a better crash rate than humans. Strap on your seat belt, the wildness is only beginning. There are robot stewardess’ on their way.

I embrace change, evolution and innovation but some of this is downright not human feeling.

Now seeing at the professional level often, I do wonder when we will have our first Husky alumni offspring as a key player on UConn. Have we seen much of this anywhere in college hoops? Anthony’s kid is one.
 
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navery12 said:
I don't think this is true at all. The recent changes have made baseball so much enjoyable for everyone from the casual fans to the diehards
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The recent changes to speed up pace of play were huge. The season is about a month too long. It should be mid playoffs now. If they don’t want to do away with the 162 game season, maybe 7 inning weekend double headers? Another issue is pitcher injuries. No idea how to deal with that since high velocity is so effective.
 
brihman said:
The recent changes to speed up pace of play were huge. The season is about a month too long. It should be mid playoffs now. If they don’t want to do away with the 162 game season, maybe 7 inning weekend double headers? Another issue is pitcher injuries. No idea how to deal with that since high velocity is so effective.
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I tend to agree with it being too long - find it pretty silly when baseball is being played in the cold/sleeves when it's such a warm weather sport.

I just don't know if MLB will ever mess around with duration of season due to records/stats, and revenue. There isn't a ton of content during a lot of those months. Who knows- there are some stats out there that are already untouchable due to how the game has changed. Forget a pitcher ever breaking a shutouts record.
 
navery12 said:
Does it really cheapen the regular season though? Baseball still has the smallest percentage of playoff teams that get in, reducing that even more seems crazy to me. That's what cheapens the regular season IMO, when it's June 1 and half the league is already out of the playoff hunt and trading away half the team, and another 5-10 teams are giving up by the end of July. Now unless you're a bottom of the league team you're keeping most of your players, keeping fans interested and are still realistically in the playoff hunt until September
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I mean by definition isn't the regular season less meaningful when more teams make the playoffs?

I understand why more playoff teams appeals to more people because it gets more teams involved. I'm just of the opinion its artificial. You play 162 games nightly over the course of 6 months just to come down to a 3 game playoff?

I would expand to 32 teams AL and NL with two 8 team divisions. Ditch interleague. Dan Hurley and no Dan Hurley respectively.

Division winners and 3rd best record advance to 7 game division round. 4th best and 5th best play in a 1 game playoff to advance where they play the 1 seed.
 
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