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10-08-2007, 04:41 AM | #1 |
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How can you know if it is a success, if you don't have a control?
Ok, what if I say that there should be 8 playoff teams from each league. That it will increase fan interest and increase revenue. How can you prove my assertion is wrong? You can't. Just like you can't prove your assertion that the wildcard is the right thing. |
10-08-2007, 04:54 AM | #2 | |
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At the time (moving to the wildcard) there were many purists very much opposed to the wildcard - bob costas, george will etc... |
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10-08-2007, 04:55 AM | #3 | |
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Money has gone up at the same time that wildcard started? Is that your "proof"? What about all the other things that have changed? Which have helped, which have hurt? TIA. |
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I could probably write a paper on it or at least a very long post – which I may do later. The wildcard is one of the factors in the game's current financial success – coming out of the '94 strike-shortened season, with the wildcard being put in place in '95. Even in the face of its diminishing importance on the landscape of American sports, baseball has become more profitable and franchise more valuable over the last twenty years. |
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10-08-2007, 05:05 PM | #7 |
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PGA and MLS are definitely more valuable and rich now.
I'm not familiar enough with the others to give an opinion. If you are using volleyball leagues to back your opinion, you are really going out on a limb. |
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10-08-2007, 02:29 PM | #9 | |
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If it was up to me, there would be no wild card, no inter-league play, only two divisions in each league and no DH. The leagues went to 3 divisions and a wild card for only one reason - to generate more money. I hate that baseball has gone the way of the NBA and NFL - that money is the reason the for which the sport is played.
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