The only game that would matter here is the "possibly two" that Jim Porter refers to, a rained out game between Whiz Kids and Giants that was never rescheduled. The Whiz Kids did not play a single game last week and had several openings. In addition, the WK were rained out 12 times this season, more than any team in the league, and always made a concerted effort to play. It takes two teams to reschedule a game. Now we are told we might take a loss if the game isn't played.
When would this "forced" makeup be played? Saturday? Sunday? When, where, what time? Tell us, please.
And will the playoffs still start on Monday?
And do you honestly think it is appropriate for us to play 5 games in 8 days? When the Marlins faced that situation, the schedule was pushed back two weeks, and rightfully so.
Where is the league on this?
To assign the WK with a loss because of a failed makeup game is to be willfully blind to the circumstances. All season long, my teammates and I have played honestly, fairly, and respectfully.
In the end, does any of this really matter? No, of course not. It's just 55-up, recreational baseball. We play about once a week, for fun. So why is this so difficult, and why keep the players in the dark?
We play tonight and still have no idea if the game "matters" or not, and it affects how we'd approach the game, the lineup we'd use, the way we'd set up the pitching for the playoffs.
Love this league, grateful to the people who put in the work, the friends I've made, but this kind of fiasco is avoidable and unnecessary. I'm disappointed.
Jimmy - I understand your frustration with the scheduling and will only say that this rainy season has been tough on everyone.
Then I would say that the GMs and players in this division wanted parity and we got what we wanted. Looking deep into the standings, here is the significance of the "one or two" games that the WK might have remaining. If the WKs win tonight, you clinch first place and a second game is moot. The Giants would finish in second and the Yankees in third. But if the WKs lose tonight, a final game against the Giants would effect the top three seeds.
If the WKs lose tonight but beat the Giants in "game two", the Whiz would finish in first, the Giants would fall to third and the Yankees would move into second. If the Whiz lose both of their final games, the Giants would finish first, the WK second and the Yankees third. So, who do you guys want to play in a single-elimination game?
The fighting Americans? The upstart Twins? or a streaking Peppers team with Ron Massaroni on the hill?
I don't know the entire "old expression" but "That's why we play the game"!
Men.... you need to think about what is fair and right..... I don't know the result of tonight's Whiz/ Yankee game? If the Yankees win then the right thing to do is play the Whiz/Giants make up... if the Whiz won then it still matters because the Giants currently have 4 losses without the assigned 5th loss..... It's possible that the Giants would beat the Whiz in that final game giving the Giants 4 losses still and 2nd place. But if the Whiz won the Giants would have 5 losses, same as the Yankees. The Yankees won the season series therefore they would be in second place by virtue of the tie breaker... Then the Yankees play the peppers and the Giants play the twins.... Assessing losses to teams that didn't play a makeup is a little "atypical"? Fair? Right? No not really....
Oh Well... let's just play and let the better team win!
Who won the Whiz/Yankee game tonight?!
Pete G
-- Edited by Pete G on Friday 4th of August 2017 09:53:52 PM
-- Edited by Pete G on Friday 4th of August 2017 09:54:53 PM
