http://www.sbnation.comhttp://www.sbnation.com/users/twenty5psi Posts made by twenty5psi on SB Nation http://www.draysbay.com/2009/3/10/789161/possibly-the-best-picture twenty5psi Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:25:25 -0000 <img alt="15beckwatchchin__1224379186_7213" src="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/fan_shot_images/36490/15beckwatchchin__1224379186_7213.jpg" /> <div class="source source-img"><p>Possibly the best picture&nbsp;ever.</p> <p>Captions welcome.</p></div> http://www.draysbay.com/2009/1/29/740023/the-2009-al-east-playoff-s twenty5psi Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:47:13 -0000 <p>As we all know the AL East is going to be loaded in 2009, with three teams that&nbsp;have the&nbsp;talent to&nbsp;win over 95 games, what's everyone's thoughts on what this will do to the discussion of a new playoff system? If that #3 team is the Yankee's or Red Sox (lets all hope) with say 94 or 95 wins, will the media pick up and run with it?</p> <p>I think before you could start talking about a new format the leagues would have to be balanced, with one team switching from the NL to AL or adding 2 expansion teams to the AL. At that point I liked RJ's idea about creating 2 divisions in each league, East and West, each division winner (4 total) would be garaunteed a homefield-advantage playoff spot, and then there would be 2 or even 4 wildcard seed's in each League.</p> <p>Obviously quite a bit would have to be changed for something like&nbsp;this to work, but I have the feeling someone in the AL East this year is going to be denied a playoff spot despite a great year.</p>