Baseball Pet Peeves

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Just because the previous system sucked, doesn't mean this one is any better. I think it's perfectly acceptable to complain when there are viable alternatives not being used.

Here are a couple of ideas that would be far better than the current one:

- the league with the better overall interleague record
- the team with the better overall record
- the team with the better playoff record up to that point (if one team sweeps their way to the World Series, they get home field advantage)

Just something that makes it meaningful. Winner of the All Star game makes very little sense.
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all of those are unworkable, according to Selig. It makes no sense to me either, but there you have it.
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Just so we're clear...

You hate people who complain about the way home field advantage is determined because Selig says the other alternatives are "unworkable?" That's a good enough reason not to complain about it? Or is it just that they old way sucked, too?

Seems like complaining about it should be pretty valid, but that's me.
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Apparently we're not clear. When it was random, no one griped. Everyone was perfectly OK with it. When they made it the new way, everyone bitches AS IF they took a completely legitimate process, and fucked it up. They didn't. They took a completely asinine process, and didn't make it much better. The choice is NOT between All Star determination, and best home record determination. The choice is between All Star determination, or hoping your team gets in in an odd or even numbered year.

As of right now, Selig has said multiple times that best record determination is IMPOSSIBLE. As in, never going to happen. He says they can't work the hotel accommodations. I don't fully understand it, but that is his stance. So complaining about it now is roughly the equivalent of complaining that Hendry hasn't traded Kevin Hart for Albert Pujols.

If you would like me to put an asterisk on my peeve, and put in a paragraph about how it is OK for them to gripe about it, but only with the stipulation that they are griping about it because it doesn't live up to their fantasy world where Selig says it IS possible to do it by best record, then I suppose I can, but I was trying to be concise.