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Originally Posted by Brad K
Is there any way you can relate a small portion of even a couple of your posts to the issue at hand, which is baseball putting extra teams which are inferior in the playoffs then mostly failing in their efforts to have these extra inferior teams lose early while the strong teams advance?
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You never answered this question:
Given that the AL used a balanced schedule from 1979 onward, does this mean you now consider 1979 California, 1984 Kansas City, 1987 Minnesota, 1988 Boston, 1989 Toronto, and 1990 Boston to be inferior teams not deserving of making the postseason? These teams ranged from 3rd best to 6th best record in the AL. Because of the balanced schedule, the divisions were effectively arbitrary and meaningless.