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The World Series; The fall clasic
Topic Started: Sep 25 2008, 01:17 AM (214 Views)
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Just a little back ground on the world series.

The first modern World Series was held between the Boston Americans (as in "American Leaguers" — now the Red Sox) of the American League and the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League in 1903. Boston won the Series 5 games to 3, helping to establish the new league's credibility. However, the next year, the National League champion New York Giants refused to play the American League champions (Boston again) because of the alleged inferiority of the American League, along with the legitimate claim that there were no formal or standard rules for this championship (a factor which had helped kill the 1880s version of the Series). In response, the World Series was instituted in 1905 as a permanent institution, through which the leagues would "meet annually in a series of games for the Professional Base Ball Championship of the World."[2]

Until 1969, teams reached the Fall Classic merely by having the best records in their respective leagues. If two teams were tied for the best record at the end of the scheduled season, the winner of a head-to-head "pennant playoff" between the two teams (a three-game playoff series in the National League and a one-game playoff in the American League) was declared winner of the "pennant" (league championship), and thus represented the league in the Series.

The reorganization of each league into two divisions for the 1969 season changed the road to the Series. The winners of the East and West divisions of each league would meet in a best-of-five (later best-of-seven) League Championship Series to determine the winner of the pennant. The split into two divisions was partially based on the premise that there were too many teams in the league to have one division ("you can't sell a twelfth place team"[citation needed]). It also ensured more "pennant races" to generate more regular-season attendance, along with more post-season revenue.

A further change occurred in 1994 with the expansion of the Major Leagues and the establishment of the Central Divisions. This created an odd number of teams in each league's playoff tournament, so a fourth playoff team was added. It was called the "Wild card", patterned after the National Football League's playoff system of including the best non-divisional winner (by win-loss record) in the playoffs. This created additional regular-season races as well as further augmenting post-season income. It also had the inevitable effect of playing the game's prime event in the latter part of October, with weather often much colder and harsher than in the early part of the month, especially in the Midwest and Northeast.

Under the current format, normally the division winner with the highest winning percentage in the league faces the wildcard in the best-of-five first round, or Division Series, and the two remaining teams face each other in the first round. However, if both the wildcard qualifier and the best divisional win-loss record come from the same division (which has happened frequently), the wildcard instead plays the division winner with the second-best record in the first round while the remaining two teams face each other. The winners of the two Division Series play in the League Championship Series for the right to play in the World Series.

In case two teams tie for the fourth playoff spot in a league, a single-game "wild-card playoff" is required to determine the final qualifier.

Although the current structure was established in 1994, the players' strike canceled the post-season events that year. Playoffs with the current structure were first played in 1995.

ok a long background...either way i hope you enjoyed that piece of baseball history

Playoff Brackets

American League Divison Series

The Los Angeles Angles (1) vs. the Boston Redsox (w)
Boston Redsox win series 3-1 best of 5

The Tampa Bay Rays (2) vs. the Chicago Whitesox (3)
Tampa Bay Rays win series 3-1 best of 5

National League Divison Series

Chicago Cubs (1) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (3)
Los Angeles Dodgers win series 3-0 best of 5

Philidalphia Philies (2) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (w)
Philidalphia Philies win series 3-1 best of 5

notes
2 teams from the same divison cannot play eachother in the first round so in the national league the 1 plays 3 and the 2 plays the wildcard because the cubs and brewers are both in the National League Central.


American League Championship Series

Tampa Bay Rays (2) vs. Boston Redsox (w)
Tampa Bay wins series 4-3 best of 7

National League Championship Series

Los Angeles Dodgers (3) vs. Philidalphia Philies (2)
Philidalphia Philies win series 4-1 best of 7

WORLD SERIES

Tampa Bay Rays vs. Philidalphia Philies
Philidalphia wins series 4-1 best of 7

*american league has home field advantage because they won the allstar game. seeds do not matter here.

THE PHILIDALPHIA PHILIES ARE THE BASEBALL CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD
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I already got my ALDS and ALCS tickets and am going to get my WS tickets on Sunday.
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Baseball the copy cat sport of cricket :P
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Go Padres? =/
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Padres aren't even close to the playoffs.
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well all but 2 races have been decided now.
The american league central and the national league wildcard
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almost ready peoples. only 1 race left to decide, the american league central. Playoffs start Wednesday october 1st
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Go Phillies. :P I just want them in cause I live in PA and Cardinals aren't in it this year..
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I'll go with the Phillies
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dang that rays and redsox game last night was a thriller, 11 innings and 6 hours makes for a lot of stirring on the couch to find a comfortable position but i guarantee that both managers were having a harder time doing that then me :P
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the stage is set. The rays managed to squeek by the redsox in 7 so they play against the philies starting wed.
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Freaking Rays... If they didn't close it out I'd go crazy. Here's how I root for teams in baseball: Indians>AL Central>AL (except for Red Sox and Yanks)>NL>Red Sox, Yanks.

Pulling for the Rays.
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lol, do you live in ohio?
i myself am a crazy twins fan so i was bummed out when the whitesox won the tiebreaker game.
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Family is from Ohio, I've always lived in Florida. I like the Twins, they play the game the right way. Hoped they would make the playoffs.
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phillies blow go rays
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