Dodgers Wondering If They Should Have Spent More Time Training For Playoffs And Less Time Honoring Satanic Drag Nuns

Babylon Bee ^ | 10/12/2023 | Babylon Bee

[1Old Pro]

I had suggested they should make it 20 out of 21 teams, so the whole league could play 82 games just to make one team feel really, really bad.

Good idea, it would open up for some exciting betting, on who the one team would be :)

[dfwgator]

I had suggested they should make it 20 out of 21 teams, so the whole league could play 82 games just to make one team feel really, really bad.

Well if it were the A's, nobody would even notice.

[38special]

It’s actually the Dodgers that get an asterisk ✳️ for the 60 game 2020 season.

[dfwgator]

Them too.

[ConservativeInPA]

Another factual story from Babylon Bee. They are slipping.

[Getready]

Newsom can play the Devil....oh, wait...

[bray]

Dodgers Blue Lite

[Dr. Sivana]

It’s actually the Dodgers that get an asterisk ✳️ for the 60 game 2020 season.

Dodgers get another asterisk for 1981 when the strike led to a split season, and the Dodgers got in, while the Reds, with the overall best W-L record, were locked out of the playoffs.

While I loved beating the Yankees at the time, I intensely hated the idea of changing the rules in mid-season to lock out the team with the best record. I have never had any love for Reds, only some respect, due to their seniority. They don't even get opening day anymore.

[canuck_conservative]

the inferior teams win a short series

Game 1 - Kershaw (LA's "ace") allowed 7 runs and got just 1 out

that's a 162 ERA

the first inning of Game 1! Don't blame it on the series format, Dodgers didn't show up

[OldMissileer]

Good idea, it would open up for some exciting betting, on who the one team would be :)

Nope. The one team would always be my Red Wings.

If you want to guess who will be the most awful team in the NHL the first one you should think of is my guys from Detroit.

[dfwgator]

Detroit hasn’t been to a post-season in any of the four major sports since 2015.

But I’m pretty confident that will end this year with the Lions.

[showme_the_Glory]

Let’s go Rangers.

[showme_the_Glory]

Let’s go Rangers.

[dfwgator]

Kershaw always flops in the post-season.

[discostu]

All baseball teams are barely above 500 if you really look it. Part of the problem with the 162 game season, that kind of grind guarantees even the best teams will have multiple slumps. There’s the adage even the best teams lose 30% of the time. I always find it funny people talk about 100 win teams like it’s a major achievement. If you drop off a zero you get the equivalent of a 10-6 NFL record. Nobody considers 10-6 great, even if it will frequently get into the playoffs. A 100 win team is only 20 games, 1/8 of the season, over 500.

[dfwgator]

Good point, and there’s a lot more parity in baseball, you really can’t spend your way to a title anymore, players are too expensive now.

[discostu]

I don’t even think it’s parity so much as the vicious grind. You get a similar thing in the NBA and NHL (well, outside the occasional NBA super team). The more games there are in a season the more records gravitate towards the middle. It’s just like the old coin toss experiment, the bigger your sample size the less your results deviate from 50-50. We never really like to admit how much luck plays into sports results. But in the end they’re really all about the bounces and the injuries.

[dfwgator]

It also comes down the managers, Bochy is one of the best in the business.

[knarf]

God will not be mocked.

[OldMissileer]

But I’m pretty confident that will end this year with the Lions.

I'm not going to get my hopes up.

Quite a few years ago the Lions had a couple of seasons where they went undefeated for something like half a season then they collapsed and lost nearly every game through the end.