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MLB 2011 Post-Season: Who misses the NBA?

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bigblue_dl said:
Last year, if I remember correctly, didn't the Cardinals overtake the Braves on the last game of the season to win the wildcard? After making an impressive comeback run in order to do so? So in this new system they would have to play the Braves head to head, after they already beat them fair and square? Sorry, that's not right.
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Yes they did, on a very crazy night of baseball. If both teams had won or lost their game on that day however, there would have been a one game playoff at Busch Stadium the next day.
 
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REDaero91 said:
Yes they did, on a very crazy night of baseball. If both teams had won or lost their game on that day however, there would have been a one game playoff at Busch Stadium the next day.
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Yeah, because they would have been tied, which actually makes sense.
 
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I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate the expansion of the MLB playoffs. This used to be the only league where making the playoffs meant something.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
It meant losing to the Yankees. Right?
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Well, right, but it also meant you won your division or you were most likely in the top three teams in the league. I can't stand how it seems like everyone makes it in the NBA, NHL, and even the NFL to some extent.
 
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Scott Boras says <a href="http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/7650664/agent-scott-boras-slams-new-york-mets-owners-slashing-payroll">the Mets are unethical</a> because they decreased their payroll and aren't signing players to huge contracts this year. Wow.

Obviously I'm not a big market fan, so maybe I have different expectations, but if my team was still paying Bobby Bonilla, I'd want them to be a little cautious with their contracts, regardless of their TV revenue.
 
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jen said:
Scott Boras says <a href="http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/7650664/agent-scott-boras-slams-new-york-mets-owners-slashing-payroll">the Mets are unethical</a> because they decreased their payroll and aren't signing players to huge contracts this year. Wow.

Obviously I'm not a big market fan, so maybe I have different expectations, but if my team was still paying Bobby Bonilla, I'd want them to be a little cautious with their contracts, regardless of their TV revenue.
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Some investment guy who knows a lot more about these things than I do showed that the Mets actually made a killing by deferring payment for such a long period (assuming they didn't just give the cash to Bernie Madoff).
 
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jen said:
Scott Boras says <a href="http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/7650664/agent-scott-boras-slams-new-york-mets-owners-slashing-payroll">the Mets are unethical</a> because they decreased their payroll and aren't signing players to huge contracts this year. Wow.

Obviously I'm not a big market fan, so maybe I have different expectations, but if my team was still paying Bobby Bonilla, I'd want them to be a little cautious with their contracts, regardless of their TV revenue.
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As a fan of the team that is paying Bobby Bonilla (for another 23 years), I agree with you. Of course, the wise way to structure the second Bonilla contract was not to have signed him.

Priceless, I read that analysis too, a long time ago (on Fear in Flushing, maybe?) and don't recall it well; wasn't the decision based on the Wilpons' (insane) belief that the Madoff ROI would continue ad infinitum?
 
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He's back, Andy Pettitte has signed a $2.5 million minor league deal with the Yankees per Jack Curry of YES.
 
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