In a story that flew under the radar yesterday, owners voted to change a MLB rule that finally makes sense. The baseball owners approved the change to allow head-to-head records determine home-field advantage for one-game playoff tiebreakers following the season. It's a refreshing change that I applaud being made considering they previously used a coin toss to determine the home site.
That's right, a coin toss. As you can see, it's about time a change was made. I'm calling this the common sense rule from now on. If you remember back to last October when the Twins and White Sox met up for a one-game playoff for the division in Chicago. They played at US Cellular in Chicago because despite the Twins winning the season series, the White Sox won a coin toss. Under the new common sense rule, the Twins would be hosting the playoff in the Metrodome and would have won. Not that it would have mattered because neither team was getting past the Rays, but it's about time they made the change to dump the coin toss as a tiebreaker for something as important as a one-game playoff. I don't know who ever came up with using a coin toss to determine home field originally because that's garbage. The coin toss is used as a very last resort to breaking a tie in sports...I think the NFL uses it as like number 10 on a long playoff tiebreaking list.
Kudos to the MLB owners for making one good decision this offseason.
Friday, January 16, 2009
The Common Sense Rule
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First of all, yes, I remember this past October. How could one forget?
This story did fall under that radar, but it is comforting to know the next time the Tigers have a chance to pull through for the Twins and do not, the next game will be at Target Field.
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