I don't follow baseball ....

...but.

My post about the guy going after A-Rod got me thinking about baseball.

I go to Yankee games because my son and fiance have a box. Good seats free. I know the names of some of the usual suspects but what exactly they do for a living, RBIs, fetishes, batting average is still kind of a mystery.

Shoot me.

Three games into a series the Yankees are losing bad. I don't follow baseball and never heard of the Texas whatevers before so why wouldn't the Yankees be able to blister these guys four games straight and call it a day.

Now I think I know.

When it's all over everyone goes home. Ding - DING - DING !!!!

IT'S A BUSINESS !!

I get it now. Lets lay off a few, act all goofy, get the crowd going, sell a boatload of hotdogs, expensive memorabilia, keep the interest up so that the last two or three games we can triple the cost of a TV commercial.... Genius.

Sometimes I'm amazingly slow for an adult.

Once they get into a championship series, it's usually pretty much a given they'll end up playing all seven games. Same thing with basketball and hockey.

No the real business is when there is foul weather in the area, but they don't call the game until after folks are in their seats, eating hot dogs and drinking beers. I sat in Fenway for 3 hours only to have the game called. Thankfully, it wasn't my tab the beers were on.

stuart in mn wrote: Once they get into a championship series, it's usually pretty much a given they'll end up playing all seven games. Same thing with basketball and hockey.

Except for a few years back when the rockies swept through the playoffs and then got swept by the Red sox.

Or the two years that the Avalanche won the cup.

Colorado is a pretty small TV sports market

The big market teams always seem to go the distance every time every year.

Sounds like a scam and money maker to me.

The TV and radio stations are already bummed out that the world series may end up with San francisco and Texas playing. It seems that the market is small and they wont make any money.

Go Rangers

914Driver wrote: Three games into a series the Yankees are losing bad. I don't follow baseball and never heard of the Texas whatevers before so why wouldn't the Yankees be able to blister these guys four games straight and call it a day.

Because baseball enjoys far more parity than the other stick and ball sports. The best teams will win 100 of 162 games and the worst will lose 100 of 162 games. And every year, the worst teams will beat the best teams now and then. It's not like football, where some teams will be 15-1 and some will be 2-14. If football had the kind of parity baseball had, the best football teams would be 11-5, and the worse would be 5-11.

Oh, and just because you've not heard of the Texas Rangers (who have existed since 1972, and are owned by one of the best pitchers in baseball history) doesn't mean anything.

All you need to know is the Cubs still haven't won.