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Subject: "A Tarp, A Tarp. My Kingdom For A Tarp."

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Date Posted: 20:59:46 05/18/24 Sat
In reply to: sparman 's message, "Re: What??? Delay for Mound Maintenance??" on 20:04:29 05/18/24 Sat

sparman, no doubt you're correct that the coaches and/or ADs don't vote every year on whether to conduct a postseason tournament. But obviously they do revisit the topic from time to time, no better exemplified than in baseball where we've gone from winners from two geographic divisions play each other (even if the two best teams are both in the North or the South), to the two teams with the best regular season records play each other, to four teams in a double-elimination format.

So the topic is clearly revisited as requested by coaches and/or ADs.

Baseball is a special candidate for dropping a postseason tournament for the simple reason that the best team in baseball has a much greater chance of losing any single game or pair of games because there's simply more randomness in baseball.

That's why Columbia's 17-4 season was so amazing. In this sport, it's hard to go 17-4 against Little Leaguers.

At some point, the pendulum could swing back the other way where a guy like Boretti would say, "No mas!" It would be the equivalent of Penn and Princeton agreeing in the early 1970's to experimenting with a four-team men's basketball tournament before realizing, "Hey wait, this is terrible for us."

Question re: the pitcher's mound at Columbia. Don't they cover the darn thing with a tarp when it rains? Isn't that Groundskeeping 101?

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Author: sparman [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 22:23:18 05/18/24 Sat My opposition to the basketball tournament for reasons cited above by Bengal is longstanding, but I cannot see the IL putting this tournament idea back up for a vote, if for no other reason than it would open the door to calling off tournaments in other sports in which they are too invested.