I like how people think the playoffs are meaningful and predictable. Four games is your sample size, so team-building analysis is worthless. The best team in baseball is the team that wins the most games over the course of 162 games.
In that case then we should do away with the World Series and just hand the trophy to the team with the best record at the end of the regular season.
The point is that those World Series champion teams in the late 90s were not put together like the ones recently. Now they just have a bunch of individual stars and sluggers, but not a TEAM. Those teams with guys like Bernie Williams and Paul O'Neill and Scott Brosius and Tino Martinez, didn't have the payrolls that these teams have had. You can spend a billion dollars and go to the playoffs every year, but it takes a well put together complete team to win a World Series, which is what New York expects every year. BTW, Cards are gonna get steamrolled by the Mets.
i don't like the mets or the cardinals but atleast the mets aren't in our division. i'm pulling for the mets until the world series.
Yep. Very balanced. Only major difference I see is Sox relied on the longball while the Tigers' O reminds me of pre-yackwagon NL baseball. If Detroit can keep their pitching staff together, they'll be good for awhile.
I feel the need to reemphasize this very important point. HAHA Yankees lose... THHEEEEE Yankees lose.
