Try again, it was in 1995...you're telling me 18 games not played in April changed that season in any meaningful way? Please.Most years the Tigers would've been a welcom opponent, the last couple, not so. It's the luck of the draw, though I WOULD suggest they stop having some interleague games in September. The fans like it, so it's useless to whine. Besides, it's not like the Braves ever do anything in the playoffs anyway (their one Series win was in a strike shortened season)...:missingte :nopityA:uppy:
And the point isn't really that the IL schedule is just unfair to the Braves, it's unfair period. Considering many division races will be decided by only a few games, the fact that some teams in a division play contenders from the other league while other teams in that same division play bottom-dwellers from the other league can have a serious effect on the playoffs.
I have no problem with playing some IL games and even having the "rivalry" games (which create the situation we have now, where the teams from one divison play a very different and often unequal schedule) but they shouldn't count toward the final standings. Or, if you want IL games to count toward the final standings, set it up like it used to be set up, where an entire division in the NL plays an entire division in the AL and it cycles every year.
It may be whining but there's really no way you can argue the current system is set up in an equitable way. Sure, some years the Braves are going to get screwed and some years they're going to get a pie IL schedule while the Marlins may get screwed, but that doesn't make it equitable. Why use that "maybe next year it will be different" excuse for a clearly flawed system when you can simply fix it and make it the same for every team, every year?
According to your logic, it's not fair to put teams in a division either. It wasn't fair two years ago when the Phillies and Braves were playing well, but the NL West was a joke and could barely get a team over .500 to win the division.
But Philly get left out of the playoffs b/c their division was stronger.
If the Phillies didn't have to play their division teams more times than other teams they probably would have done better. Right?
So let's get rid of unbalanced schedules and divisions altogether.
But Philly get left out of the playoffs b/c their division was stronger.
If the Phillies didn't have to play their division teams more times than other teams they probably would have done better. Right?
So let's get rid of unbalanced schedules and divisions altogether.
Speaking of fairness, it isn't fair that the AL has 14 teams fighting for 4 playoff spots while the NL has 16 teams for 4 spots. Take a team out of the NL (Houston?) and put in the AL to balance out the leagues and divisions. So what if there is interleague play every day.
That's only unfair since the introduction of the wild card, which, like IL, is a marketing ploy. Without the wild card, you simply have to win your division to make the playoffs.
Again, like I said earlier, it's not really about feeeling sorry for the Braves, it's simply that the Braves got the shortest end of the stick this year. Next year it could be any other team, and it would be just as unfair.
the real prob is when the shitty teams play against the better teams like its their world series. until the last couple of years the damn royals have owned the cardinals. now that sucks. last year the cards got swept by chi sox and then detroit. if you ask me they get out of it what they want full stadiums.
