google.com - 10/26/2009
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1 day ago NEW YORK Angels manager Mike Scioscia called baseball's postseason format "ridiculous" because of the extra off days added a couple of years ago to suit the sport's television partners. After playing 162 games over 182 days during the regular season, the Angels and Yankees played just ...
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mlb.mlb.com - 10/24/2009
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By Carrie Muskat / MLB.com 10/24/09 7:35 PM
ET Rain postponed Saturday's Game 6 of the American...
League Championship Series, and the Angels and Yankees hope for better conditions on Sunday in New York. Game 6 will be played at 8:20 p.m. ET on Sunday ...
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Game 6 of ALCS postponed until Sunday
sports.yahoo.com - 10/26/2009
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Between the profound heartache of early April and
the deep disappointment of late October, Mike Scioscia's Los...
Angeles Angels of Anaheim put together one of the franchise's proudest and most memorable seasons. Rookie right-hander Nick Adenhart ...
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Despite ALCS loss, Angels put together a season to be ...
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Five Reasons Why I Won’t Watch the World Series
The Daily Fungo – Detroit Tigers Baseball: Yesterday and Today —
... 3. The Calendar. Baseball’s refusal to stand up to the networks and make the postseason more tightly scheduled — a non-travel off day between games four and five of the league championship series? I can’t abide by a November World Series. Life has to go on, man! ...
AP: Scioscia calls postseason schedule `ridiculous’
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
AP: Scioscia calls postseason schedule `ridiculous’ “I think you lose a lot of the integrity of what the season means when you have three days off at the end of the season to let other teams maybe reset their starting rotation, which is an advantage of clinching early,” Scioscia said before the Angels were eliminated with a 5-2 loss. “That’s negated when any team can do it just by getting to the playoffs.” Interestingly, both teams clinched early, and both teams got to reset their rotations. The possibility of facing Sabathia thrice in a short series probably brought this on. ...
Wednesday Wangdoodles
ESPN Feed: neyer rob —
... is that Eric Gregg's massive strike zone should be No. 1 rather than No. 5, because Gregg's calls weren't an accident; he got them wrong on purpose! * OK, so Scioscia doesn't like the postseason schedule . Calls it "ridiculous," and I'm basically on his side. I would like the postseason to perfectly reflect the regular season, where you need four starters and sometimes even five. I have to mention, though, that since the modern World Series was invented in 1903, many managers have gotten by with three starters. In ...
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... . “To put into perspective just how long the Phillies have gone without a championship, the earth has almost made one full orbit of the sun since the franchise last paraded through downtown Philadelphia holding the famed Commissioner’s Trophy.” • Mike Scioscia calls the playoff schedule “ ridiculous .” • These ...
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