It's highly unfair. It should go to the team with the best regular season record. But remember that prior to the ASG deciding the home field advantage, they used to simply rotate each year between leagues. So it's not any more unfair than it used to be.
Yeah best regular season record would certainly be the most logical way to do it.
He actually said he would "consider it", he never promised anything.
Oh righto.
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Are you blokes buying or selling? Surely you're still well in the race, especially with two wild cards nowBeing a Rays fan at the deadline sucks every year. James Shields going here, going there,
Pretty shocking about Ichiro. Not sure anybody on the planet saw that coming.
He's certainly not the same pitcher he was back in the day but most teams would kill to have a guy like that as the number 5 in their rotation. And he's got postseason experience too. Didn't you guys pretty much pass on CJ because he'd proved he wasn't up to pitching in those situations?
My concern with Oswalt is not only his deteriorating performance over the past few years, but also his creaky back. He's going to miss his next start because of it. You never know when that's going to shut him down for the year.
Yeah that's fair enough. Although when Oswalt pitches a complete game win to take the World Series 4-1 over the Reds I'm sure you'll be quite happy to have picked him up.
This is the Rays, they're always selling. Even if we had a ten game lead we wouldn't be buying, just staying put. Payroll of <50m a season, and it will stay that way. As soon as Longoria's contract is up he'll be gone, Price too. Shields will be traded either now or in the offseason. Once Madden goes the team will go down the tubes. Amazing front office and coaching staff, cheap owner with **** fanbase with no money coming in. They'll be lucky if the team is still there in 5 years.
