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Bud Selig Passing New Rule: Postseason Games Must Be Completed

November 21, 2008

Filed under: MLB Fans, MLB Playoffs

Remember Game 5 of the World Series? Both parts of it? There was major fallout after the game was suspended, because it seemed convenient of the game to get called immediately after the Rays scored the tying run. On the flip-side, had the game been called before the Rays scored and the rulebook was explicitly followed, you would have had a champion crowned after only playing half of a game. Today, Bud Selig revealed that baseball is doing the right thing:

"All postseason games, All-Star games and that, will be full-length affairs, and the rule will be so written," Selig said Thursday following an owners' meeting."

That's a good move, because I'm pretty sure no baseball fan wanted to see that game end after 4 1/2 innings.

Of course, in true Bud fashion, we're left with questions. It was asked if regular season games in late September would be covered in this rule.

"Any game that has significance for the postseason," he said. "It will be very clear now. Everybody will know exactly."

Let's hope it's clear. I immediately question what you would call "significant" to the postseason.

Let's say a team is trailing by four games in their division with two weeks left in the season. They are losing by one run and there's an extended rain delay in the seventh inning. I'd have to assume this game is not covered in the rule, but -- if you were that team's manager -- wouldn't you argue this game was significant to deciding the postseason? I sure as hell would.

What if a team ends up one game out of the playoffs after having this situation happen to them in April? Would they then be allowed to petition the league so they could play the last few innings and try to turn that "L" into a "W?" Definitely not, but how is that fair, when you are allowing games in late September finish?

I like the rule for the postseason, but I don't think you can start placing more significance on different regular season games. You can't just arbitrarily say that September 28th means more than April 15th. Every team should play under the same rules for the entire 162-game regular season.

Bud Selig Passing New Rule: Postseason Games Must Be Completed originally appeared on MLB FanHouse on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:10:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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The Oakland A’s Will Do Anything They Can to Try and Win a Playoff Series

November 19, 2008

Filed under: Athletics, AL West, MLB Playoffs

Anytime a powerhouse regular season team (I'm looking at you, Cubbies) gets knocked out in the baseball playoffs, you'll hear someone say "Anything can happen in a short series!" It's true. A bad start from your ace, a mis-timed error and, whoosh, you're playing golf before the next Frank TV commercial. And that's when you've got to lose three of five games.

Imagine if it were just one game? If Lew Wolff, owner of the Oakland A's, had Bud Selig's job, we might find out just how harsh that feeling would be.

"I'd make it one-game-and-you're-out for the first series. It would be exciting. It would be great."

Why bother with a whole game? Whoever scores first wins. And use that Olympic rule where the players start on first and second and you can start your lineup wherever you want. That's excitement, buster!

Look, I get the A's have had a hard time over the years once playoff series move past the first game but this is a real stinker of an idea. No team in baseball history has ever won more than 116 games in a season, which means every now and then you lose to the Royals. That's baseball and that's why, imperfect as they are, five and seven game series are the way to determine the champion.

Not much chance of it happening, though. Wolff says he hasn't said anything to Selig because he's afraid of him. On that, Lew, we are agreed.

The Oakland A's Will Do Anything They Can to Try and Win a Playoff Series originally appeared on MLB FanHouse on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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Phillies Fan With Flipped Car Needs Help

November 5, 2008

Filed under: Phillies, NL East, MLB Fans, MLB Playoffs

After the Phillies won the World Series, thousands of fans poured out in the streets of downtown Philadelphia and celebrated in an extremely peaceful manner. Of course, we only remember the idiots. Unfortunately for those who like to park in the street, a favorite pastime among celebrating idiots is flipping over cars.

We saw them in action last week, and in the video above you can see one poor guy dealing with the aftermath. As the car owner explained on his blog, since he wasn't able to afford an insurance policy that covered vandalism, the drunken decision made by a handful of fans has left him completely screwed. So he's asking for help:

So I was thinking...

There was alot of people on Broad Street last night. If all the people who were hanging out near Broad and Washington (where the car was flipped) gave me ten dollars I could probably buy a new car... or if all the people who actually flipped my car gave me a thousand dollars that could work too.

You can go to his blog and make a donation via PayPal. Hopefully enough fans, even if they weren't even out celebrating that night, will feel bad for the guy and toss him a few bucks.

Phillies Fan With Flipped Car Needs Help originally appeared on MLB FanHouse on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:35:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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Chase Utley Is Super F’n Excited

November 1, 2008

Filed under: Phillies, MLB Playoffs, MLB Video

You'll have to excuse Chase Utley here. After all, winning a World Series is pretty awesome, and when you get to celebrate that achievement in front of all your fans, sometimes the emotion can get the best of you. So what if your celebratory rally is being broadcast on live television throughout Philadelphia, sometimes you really need that F-bomb to drive your point home. Oh, and the video is NSFW if you haven't figured that out already.


Damn f----n straight.

Chase Utley Is Super F'n Excited originally appeared on MLB FanHouse on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:39:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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The Dugout: The End/Movin’ On

November 1, 2008

Filed under: Cubs, Dodgers, Phillies, White Sox, MLB Playoffs, The Dugout

While the Phillies celebrate a well-deserved World Series victory, life (and business) goes on for Major League Baseball. 65 players filed for free agency on the first day of the filing period for eligible players, and it's a completely normal but somewhat sad thing to see so many building blocks from playoff teams packing up and hittin' the old dusty trail.

Tonight's Dugout is a two-parter to give Philly their mad, Hammer-like propers, to find out where the Dugout regulars who didn't reach the mountaintop might be headed, and to officially end our season with FanHouse. Tomorrow the season starts over again when we find out what the hell happened to the Twins.

Part 1 of 2 is after the jump.

The Dugout: The End/Movin' On originally appeared on MLB FanHouse on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:49:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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