Thursday, October 7, 2010
Joe Mauer Article
Joe Mauer is the face of the Minnesota Twins and that is why I believe with the article on Extraordinary Joe. Joe has to be the king in this postseason for the Twins. He has to put the team on his shoulders and caring them through the playoffs or at least past the Yankees. I agree with this because the Twins have a great team and all the pieces put together, they just need somone to step up and lead the team. Since Justin Mornue went down in July many players have steeped up but now its time for Joe step up and play his best baseball of the season. He knows the pressure he is under from his hometown fans who have enjoyed a wonderful season thus far. Opening Target Field, winning the American Central Division Championship and having home field advantage against the Yankees are just some of the great moments this year for the Twins. But now its time to show what we can do in the postseason. We are ridiculed for being under achievers who can make the playoffs and then are three and done. Which is a fair insumotion since they have lost there last 4 playoff apperances. But now it is time to show everyone that the Minnesota Twins are for real and that they can compete with the best. That they are no longer cursed against the Yankees and that they can beat them. If Mauer is able to have the best three games of his life and carry the Twins I guarantee they win the series, and will no longer be called the team that can't perform in the postseason.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
college football playoffs
Lets be honest are you sick of college football because of the rating system?Well I am. The rating systems are great in the regular system but once you get to the end of the season and bowl season they become awful. That's why I believe that there should be a playoff for the national championship. It would also allow us to not woory if are team is rated number one by computers and a select number of people.
It has happened numerous times that the best two teams in college football aren't always playing each other. The last time was in 2008 when Florida played Oklahoma. But yet Texas had the same record as Oklahoma and they beat Oklahoma on a neutral field. Or how about Boise State who is always undefeated and in the top 10, but have never had the opportunity to play for the national championship. Yeah I know that Boise doesn't play in a very good conference or play very good teams. But every year they play a couple of good teams and prove that they can beat them too.
That's why I believe we need some kind of playoff system. Yeah so you might be saying that is way to complicating and that would never work because there are too many teams. But I have a way that it would. We can continue to to use the ratings and the bottom of the top 25 and the rest of the teams who qualify for a bowl game can be chosen as they use to, and those teams can play there bowl games as usual. But the top 16 should be put into a playoff system. You can use the final weeks top 25 ratings list to determine the seedings. The number one team would be the team rated number one on the top 25 list and the 16th would be the 16th team on the list. You would have the number one team play the 16th rated team, the number two team play the 15th rated team and so on.
This would truely tell us who deserves to be in the national championship and who truely is number one in the nation. It would only add another three games to what the teams usually play. Plus only the national championship teams would play an additional three games. Most teams would only play and extra one or two games from what they usually play. And they take a month off anyways between the end off the season and the start of bowl season. So you could just take two weeks off and then get the playoffs started. which, would allow them too be over no more than two weeks later than they get over now. In addition to that, you wouldn't even half to get rid of the big five bowl games, you could just make the last five games the big five bowl games. So see its just that easy to put a playoff into effect, and it would be good for college football too.
It has happened numerous times that the best two teams in college football aren't always playing each other. The last time was in 2008 when Florida played Oklahoma. But yet Texas had the same record as Oklahoma and they beat Oklahoma on a neutral field. Or how about Boise State who is always undefeated and in the top 10, but have never had the opportunity to play for the national championship. Yeah I know that Boise doesn't play in a very good conference or play very good teams. But every year they play a couple of good teams and prove that they can beat them too.
That's why I believe we need some kind of playoff system. Yeah so you might be saying that is way to complicating and that would never work because there are too many teams. But I have a way that it would. We can continue to to use the ratings and the bottom of the top 25 and the rest of the teams who qualify for a bowl game can be chosen as they use to, and those teams can play there bowl games as usual. But the top 16 should be put into a playoff system. You can use the final weeks top 25 ratings list to determine the seedings. The number one team would be the team rated number one on the top 25 list and the 16th would be the 16th team on the list. You would have the number one team play the 16th rated team, the number two team play the 15th rated team and so on.
This would truely tell us who deserves to be in the national championship and who truely is number one in the nation. It would only add another three games to what the teams usually play. Plus only the national championship teams would play an additional three games. Most teams would only play and extra one or two games from what they usually play. And they take a month off anyways between the end off the season and the start of bowl season. So you could just take two weeks off and then get the playoffs started. which, would allow them too be over no more than two weeks later than they get over now. In addition to that, you wouldn't even half to get rid of the big five bowl games, you could just make the last five games the big five bowl games. So see its just that easy to put a playoff into effect, and it would be good for college football too.
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