Day: September 29, 2004

ties

If there’s a three way tie:

If it’s LAD/SFG/CHC, then because of coin tosses and the NL West being involved, it’ll be the Dodgers @ the Giants in the first game. If the Giants lose, they stay at home, and the Cubs travel there to meet them. If the Dodgers lose – well, they actually didn’t do the coin toss there yet. Hmmm.

If it’s HOU/SFG/CHC for just the Wild Card, there are no coin tosses involved; it’s just a ranked two game elimination battle.

G1: Team A @ Team B
G2: Team C @ Winner

Who gets which spot is decided by the records against the rest of the group:

Giants   8-4    .667
Cubs     12-13  .480
Astros   11-14  .440

(figuring out this chart is why I did this)

Top record gets first pick, so the Giants have clinched first choice. The sane thing would be to take the Team C slot, because you’d only need one win to move on. Cubs would logically choose to be Team B, and hope to win two straight home games.

On any two way tie, the Cubs lost the coin toss and will be visitor in a 163 game.

bad free verse hour

I can not go to sleep. I’m very tired. I’ve been lacking sleep all week. My mantra has been to not get too far up or too far down on one day. Until the last meaningful day of the season, everything can change. Like the last week hasn’t proven that. And whatever happens in this … Continue reading “bad free verse hour”

I can not go to sleep.

I’m very tired. I’ve been lacking sleep all week.

My mantra has been to not get too far up or too far down on one day. Until the last meaningful day of the season, everything can change. Like the last week hasn’t proven that.

And whatever happens in this Giants game means nothing if the Cubs don’t win tommorow. No amount of intense viewing will change that. I might as well go to bed and find out what happened int he morning.

I can not go to sleep.

I think I’ve got some leftover pizza. Stupid Phil Nevin.

RAW extended

(I can’t talk about it. Don’t make me.) Am I the only person in the world who thinks Flair took out Orton to get into the vote himself? Because it seems that way. IF THEY ARE DOING IT THAT WAY, I would’ve changed how the RAW ending was presented; if the big swerve is “Flair … Continue reading “RAW extended”

(I can’t talk about it. Don’t make me.)

Am I the only person in the world who thinks Flair took out Orton to get into the vote himself? Because it seems that way.

IF THEY ARE DOING IT THAT WAY, I would’ve changed how the RAW ending was presented; if the big swerve is “Flair really is gunning” on his own, then they shouldn’t diminish with the lesser swerve of “Flair turns on Orton.” Instead of building it up like Flair was absolutely going to turn, JR should’ve been hoping against hope Flair would turn, and then treated it like a “we’ve seen this before, I can’t believe Evolution did it again” type of deal, setting it up to not be what we’ve seen before in these situations

I think I like that idea better just because it brings the continuity of the announcers knowing the history between these people beyond the last PPV cycle; usually it takes people chanting names for the announcers to be clued in about their dumbest people in the room status.

(If they aren’t doing it this week, it was really nice of Flair to fake tension with Batista for something we’re supposed to pretend only Batista and Flair were aware of happening. That dedication to fooling the cameraman for no particular reason is apperciated.)