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Old 08-17-2004, 02:24 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by TheSnake
This, I believe, is one of the reasons that football, for instance, is so popular in this country. With only 16 games, each game becomes that much more fun because it seems that much more important instead of, say, 162 baseball games (blah).
If you're lucky enough to back a team that's caught up in a pennant race[*], you can milk a good month or two of actual excitement out of a baseball regular-season.
[*] This was true up to and including 1993, the year that Atlanta and San Francisco engaged in the Last Pennant Race Ever, the two best teams in baseball that year going down to the wire for a playoff spot. 1994 got wiped out by the strike, and 1995 introduced divisional realignment and the wild-card slot, changing September from a race to finish first to a race to finish first-among-the-seconds. Had 1993 happened in 1995, the Giants would probably have wiped the floor with the Phillies in the wild-card playoff series, instead of playing actual meaningful games in September. [**]

[**] Oh, and get rid of the goddamned DH rule, too.
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