Choose your postseason bandwagon. williamfleitch writes
As this argument — that there’s something “unfair” about a playoff system in which a team that wins three games is allowed to advance over a team that wins one — somehow gains cultural currency, let me make the argument that the outrage is in fact good news for baseball. A whole range of people are suddenly shocked by the randomness of a best-of-five playoff system that has been in existence for 55 years.
Just as a reminder: The playoffs are by definition not fair. They are not meant to be indicative of which team is more “talented” or has “earned” a championship, whateveris supposed to mean. They’re just meant to be riveting. As long as two really good teams battle each other over the span of a week full of moments so stressful they seem specifically designed to give you a heart attack, the system is working.
Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, it’s onto the rankings. You may be a fan of one of the four teams still in the hunt for a World Series; more likely, you’re not. So with one game in the books , here’s a League Championship Rootability Ranking for each team, with a case for the unaffiliated fan to climb on the bandwagon — and a case against.They are the only team remaining who has yet to win a World Series, and one of only six teams in the whole sport with that ignominious distinction.
. They also have a fanbase that has waited decades for their team to break through like this and thus are frenzied unlike any other in baseball right now. They’re the easy pick.: Their most popular player, Fernando Tatis Jr., failed a drug test earlier this year and is banned from the postseason, though all told it would be pretty funny if they won the World Series without him.
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