Running 2011 Baseball Thread, Vol. I: Dedicated to spnited

Home team determined by a coin flip, no?

 

Home team decided by head-to-head record during the season, I believe. Or at least that's what someone on here told me earlier when I was hoping the game would be in Atlanta.

 

It used to be coin flip. They changed it recently.

 

Morrow strikes me as a guy in the AJ Burnett / Edwin Jackson class of pitchers. Great stuff, but lacking in the consistency to be a #1 or #2 starter. If he's your #3, #4 or #5, then great, but he's probably not going to lead a staff.

 

Buehrle and his wife run a charity for stray dogs. He's such a nice guy he surprised people when he said he hoped Vick would get hurt.

 

http://sportsradiointerviews.com/2011/09/27/curt-schilling-on-the-red-sox-potential-collapse-i-think-more-of-it%E2%80%99s-on-theo-epstein-than-terry-francona/

 

Why not just use head-to-head to determine who goes? For a sport that plays such a long regular season for the very purpose of reliably proving who is better, why have a team's season come down to a one-game playoff? None of the other sports do that.

 

Because it's cool.

 

Way more teams make the playoffs in the other sports. The 9th place team left out in basketball or hockey is rarely more than a few games better than .500. In football sometimes a 10 win team misses out. But you can't have a 1 game playoff in football and then play the next day.

 

Although I do wonder what happens if we go with the two-WC plan and there's a tie for that.

And I know it wouldn't work, but I'd love to see the NFL try a Wednesday tiebreaker for playoff spots.

 

I can't find a "tweet" or story that he's referencing, but Mike Vaccaro tweeted something that seemed to indicate that the Red Sox might be considering trading for a pitcher to start a one game play-off.

I know we've talked about the possibility of teams making a deal for a player after the September 1st cutoff for play-off eligibility, but wow, that would be the ultimate "rent-a-player" scenario.

Anyone think it could happen? Who would be available and on proper rest?

And, if you have a link to the speculation, please post it.

 

Bruce Chen, for one.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/09/chen-among-red-sox-targets-for-potential-tie-breaker.html