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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JBlood" data-source="post: 464536" data-attributes="member: 16"><p>I've been philosophically against playoffs since they cheapen the regular season.  The Phillies had the best record in all of baseball  in 2010 and 2011 and didn't make it to the World Series.  162 games should somehow count to a greater degree than a couple of short series in the postseason.  Baseball is a true marathon with 162 games, and a team's true abilities will outweigh any results of a short series.    A 16 game season can be affected much more by chance events to a much greater degree.  So I think football playoffs can more easily be justified than baseball.  The Giants now own the worst regular season record of anyone to win a Super Bowl, taking it away from the Packers and a few others who had 6 losses in the regular season.  But I don't deny I like the recent surge by the Brewers...</p></blockquote><p></p>

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