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Subject: Re: Anybody care about the Ivy baseball tournament?

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Bengal

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Date Posted: 13:33:36 05/21/24 Tue
In reply to: David Perry 's message, "Re: Anybody care about the Ivy baseball tournament?" on 22:36:07 05/20/24 Mon

Not much of a counter-argument. If she had been healthy, you can claim DC might have gone 21-0 or otherwise finish in first. If she got hurt before the Ivy tournament and DC was eliminated, which team deserved to go to the NCAAs? Injuries are part of sports. All teams are susceptible to them. You play the 21 game season and take your chances.

Cannot agree with David on a two-team playoff. 21 games is not a lot to decide a pennant? Really? Compared to what? And why -- because of the randomness that can happen during 7 weekends and 21 games? Compared to the randomness of a second place team, in this case a 12-9 P, upsetting a 17-4 Columbia team in a 3 games series after Columbia dominated the League by 5 games?

When the League was split into divisions, and, if I remember correctly which I may not, teams did not play an equal number of games against all league opponents, a divisional playoff is justifiable to me to determine the NCAA bid. But, IMO, not in the current configuration.

"What is the point of being Spanish if you can't tilt at windmills?" Pete Carril. I am not Spanish, but I like the thought.

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Ott Lake
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Date Posted: 13:51:22 05/21/24 Tue

Moving the tournament twenty miles in the middle of the playoff due to a problem with the pitcher’s mound is one of the most laughable events in the history of site management. Seriously, can anybody remember anything else quite so ridiculous? The timing was such that it appeared Columbia’s facilities team just said, “If we’re bounced out, we don’t give a damn. You fix the mound.”