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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
This time it (still doesn’t) counts
I abhor All-Star game articles, but I can get behind one that tries to abolish the abomination of “home field advantage”, especially since the advantage only happens in Game 7, and there hasn’t even been a Game 7 since the Seligula rule came into effect.
The article was written last year, but it can get reposted every year in place of the one thousand other articles we see about the All-Star game. Since 1969, one-third of the games have gone 7, with the last one being 2002, the year before “this time it counts”.
Which reminds me, I would prefer the Olympic-style playoffs: when you get down to the final four, make the #1 seed in the NL play the #2 seed in the AL and vice versa. Since the NL is the inferior league for a few years now, it’s a joke to continue to treat them as equals. The World Cup invites more teams in Europe than from North America, just as NCAA doesn’t give equal representation. Better leagues get more teams, or get their teams a better chance.
It’s a joke when the climactic games are the LCS and not the World Series.