Playoffs

[ShaimOnYou]

cjlong,

Good points, but the play-off system is probably going to stay as it is for quite some time. There is one aspect of it that is sickening and is directly associated with your great point of rewarding the teams with the weaker divisions while punishing the teams who come from strong competition. That would be the crazy "reward" of obtaining home field advantage because of winning an exhibition game.

Selig is out, and out with him should go his insane "Home Field Advantage for the league who wins the All-Star game" ruling he came up with. It's just another way of rewarding a team who 50% of the time doesn't deserve it.

All that aside, I do believe the Giants are a legitimate dynasty. 3 World Championships in 5 years with the core group intact sounds like they have earned that distinction, IMO.

[cjclong]

I understand your point about spreading joy around to a number of cities and parts of the country. On the other hand, we have fewer really excellent teams over the years as we had in the past. More and more we see teams at the top with serious weaknesses. I understand people like the "competition" that parity brings. But I for me there was more enjoyment watching two really good teams go after each other than two mediocre ones fight it out as sometimes happens. But obviously the powers that be think differently and so be it.

[Mark17]

cjlong,

Good points, but the play-off system is probably going to stay as it is for quite some time. There is one aspect of it that is sickening and is directly associated with your great point of rewarding the teams with the weaker divisions while punishing the teams who come from strong competition. That would be the crazy "reward" of obtaining home field advantage because of winning an exhibition game.

Selig is out, and out with him should go his insane "Home Field Advantage for the league who wins the All-Star game" ruling he came up with. It's just another way of rewarding a team who 50% of the time doesn't deserve it.

All that aside, I do believe the Giants are a legitimate dynasty. 3 World Championships in 5 years with the core group intact sounds like they have earned that distinction, IMO.

I agree and disagree. Agree that the Giants the past 5 years have to be called a dynasty. Any team that can make the playoffs, then win their way through them, then win the World Series 3 times in 5 years has done something very difficult and special.

Disagree about the All Star winning league getting home field advantage in the WS not being a good idea. It used to be alternated every year, the AL generally had it in the odd years, the NL in even years. So you could say the same, that the "lesser" team got it 50% of the time. Doing it the current way, it adds at least a little more meaning to the All Star game.