A team that couldn't win 90 games in the regular season is going to the World Series, and I will not sit idly by and watch an MLS post sit atop this blog.
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I personally would have challenged my conclusions and cited evidence to the contrary, but changing the subject is also an argumentative technique.
This is one of these times I'm gonna join Nate and take a hard stance against the soccer coverage. Granted, I posted MLB playoff predictions, but it was meant more or less to mock the fruitlessness of analyzing seven coin flips. The fact that you legitimately analyzed your sport's coin flips (as you've yourself admitted they are) discredits our reputation as an intellectually-sound sports blog, and the fact that it's about soccer is scaring off readers.
This is actually kind of a bizarre situation. We're both right.
Are the MLS Cup Playoffs a coin flip? More or less. 5 of the 7 MLS Cup 2005 Playoff rounds were won by lower seeded teams. 4 of 6 MLB playoff series this year were won by lower seeded teams, perhaps pointing to the general crapshoot of knockout competition in general, so I'll concede your point there.
Then again, I'm not sure that the token soccer post on Deadspin every week negatively impacts their readership base, so I'm in the camp that those fears are ungrounded. Never mind the fact that as far as I know, the only people we can confirm read YCS are the authors, and people who leave comments, (as opposed to my soccer blog, which is read on 5 different continents despite being updated irregularly at best. But I digress.)
I'd also like to point out that it's been nearly 3 weeks since I even MENTIONED the league where my relative expertise on this blog lies, much less offered analysis.
Back to baseball, if there's ever a sign that the National League should be contracted, it's last now. And I'm only half-joking.
Of course, since teams in the NL can't effortlessly assemble 100 win seasons it means one thing: they suck, not that the competition and parity is higher than the AL...
And, don't you dare start spouting off World Series and All-Star game outcomes at me, because if one and seven game matchups can decisively indicate which team is better, I'll shit my pants right now.
For once, I'm not bitching about soccer posts on our blog. I just don't want that to be the top story the day after a game-seven, ninth-inning, game-winning home run. That's all.
No problem, I'll just note the results of interleague play this season, where the AL absolutely cleaned the clock of the NL to the tune of a greater than .600 winning percentage. The Royals had a winning interleague record, and with that I rest my case.
Fair enough. Had to fit it in somewhere between Game 7 and the weekend soccer moratorium.
From preseason until now, I have regarded the AL as having more good teams. But that's a good point--it may have just been more top-heavy. The fluke of the Royals having a winning IL record aside, I'm not sure if the overall number of good players in the AL was all that drastically more than NL or if it was just concentrated more among good teams.
Having said that, if that .600+ stat the Zuch sites is accurate, I'd say that's pretty convincing given the sample (270 total IL games, I believe?).
And for the record, the "scaring off readers" was mostly meant as a joke. And thinking about it a little more, predictions can stay. But expect ridicule from me. That applies to all of us.
Actually going to MLB.com, the AL went 154-98 in Interleague play for a .611 winning percentage.
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