veganfan21 wrote:
I think playoff baseball is fun as hell but i cant pay attention to the other 162 games. I think in football or even basketball when two heavyweights go at it during the middle of the season you get amped up but it's hard to feel that way (for me again) in like June when it's the cubs and dodgers or whatever. It's like yeah this is cool but we've still got two or three long ass months left. I don't know. Maybe I've got ADD.
you know what it is? during the regular season baseball is some kind of a war of attrition; players who fail to get a hit ~70% of the time are still technically .300 hitters and all kinds of !!!, and then if you don't have some kind of a perpetual anchor-of-interest like, say, a fantasy baseball empire to oversee (read: all those day-to-day stats
matter to you) then i can see how it's easy to get lose throughout the course of so many disposable games where like, you know, yeah you always try to win but in the end it's like "man we still have 50-100+ games to go so WGAF about today/tonight? we'll get 'em tomorrow!"
but then when the playoffs come around the # of games is suddenly limited to 1/5/7 (altho i still strain to call the newschool WC play-in game "the playoffs" as opposed to my preferred "mandatory game 163") and thus now every at bat becomes that much more !!!/of-paramount-importance, and you find yourself slowing down (along with the pace of the game, especially if it's an OBP-heavy team like the cubs or traditionally like the bosox/yankees) because now all of a sudden disposability is out the window due to the finite nature of the playoffs, and thus every pitch/at-bat/opportunity is that much more !!!!!!!!!!!!! than it was for the last 6+ months of the season.
TLDR = playoff baseball and regular season baseball are two differently animals because the "marathon" of 162 games = there's so much innate disposability with all of these little moves and ideas when you know that you've got a metric shit-ton of games left, however come playoff time all those little moves and ideas = HUGELY IMPORTANT AND THEREFORE SLOWED DOWN TO A PRESSURE-PACKED MOMENT (that joe buck is in the process of moutning like a sexual conquest because he's on a mission from god to end up with a legendary call akin to his dad's "GO CRAZY FOLKS! GO CRAZY!" =) --- so yeah basically playoff baseball = the shit if you're into the gradual buildup of some kind of enormous pressure that will instantly be allievated or doubled/tripled/quadrupled with each and every pitch_________________
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