trying to follow seligian logic

They don't put World Series tickets on sale until a team wins its LCS, right? So the scheduling that a fan would have to do following that would be pretty easy. Buy your tix as soon as they go on sale, then wait to book your flight and hotel until after the other LCS is over and the dates are set.

Don't kid yourself. The reason they don't have floating dates is so they can get the highest TV ratings possible. It's hard to blame them, too, when so many millions are at stake for every ratings point.

 

This is why soccer has it right with aggregate scoring for playoff situations.

Play a three at each park and the winner has the most runs after the six games.

 

You really don't think Bud had a say in when that tarp hit the field? Is your bullshit detector broken?

 

You can file the idea of baseball taking a cue, no matter how logical, from godless commie soccer under "never gonna happen."

 

Keep the set dates as they are.

The week before I went to Philly for the NLDS, a hurricane went up the east coast. What if that hurricane had hit the first week of October?

What if Ike hit the Gulf Coast when the Astros were in the postseason?

You can't predict weather. Move up the games and you could be hit with severe thunderstorms. Yes, it'd probably be warmer, but you'd still have the same result.

 

I'll take that as a compliment.

 

That's a horrendous idea.

 

The regular season began in late March and ended prior to Oct. 1. There's no excuse for this. Screw the travel day during the DS.

 

This is all Brad Lidge's fault. He doesn't blow the save in the AS Game, and Games 3-4-5 are in Tampa and we don't have this problem.

 

Almost 100 percent of the time, I end up strangely rooting for Goofus to beat the crap out of that unctious kissass Gallant.

 

Typically, they sell tickets for all the playoff games at once, at least to season-ticket holders. Whichever ones don't get used, you get a refund for. (Or they apply them to next year's season tickets.) So those folks would be screwed, although season ticket holders would, you would think, at least live near the team.

I know they sold WS tickets in Denver last year after the Rockies won the NLCS. It was also a complete clusterfuck.

 

I think it was the 1925 series against the Pirates. Roger Peckinpaugh made a couple key errors late in the game because the field was a mess.

"Game Seven was played in a steady rain, and it appeared at first that the Senators were going to cruise. Thanks to walks and some sloppy fielding on Pittsburgh’s end, they took a 4-0 first-inning lead, and looked golden, with Walter Johnson on the mound. The Pirates bounced back, cutting the lead to one with a three-run third. Washington countered with two of their own in the top of the fourth, making it 6-3 Senators. Back-to-back doubles by future HOFers Max Carey and Kiki Cuyler made it 6-4 in the fifth.

It was still 6-4 in the seventh when Roger Peckinpaugh and his issues with the leather re-surfaced, this time with dire consequences for the Senators. He opened the seventh by dropping an Eddie Moore popup. Moore got all the way to second and rode around to score on Carey’s double, making it 6-5. With two outs in the inning Carey scored the tying run on a triple by Pie Traynor, yet another future HOFer. Both of Pittsburgh’s runs in this inning were unearned, courtesy of Peckinpaugh’s seventh error of the Series. The total was a new World Series record, beating the six committed by Honus Wagner in the first Series in 1903."