Coin Flips to Determine NL Central Champion
Just three days after Major League Baseball held coin flips to determine what teams will receive home-field advantage if any of the playoff races finish tied at the end of the season, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig announced Monday morning that the National League Central Division champion would be decided in the same fashion.
“It appears that no one actually wants to win the NL Central,” Selig said. “However, we already have a deal with Fox Sports which requires us to send eight teams to the playoffs. We discussed the possibility of taking five American League teams and three National League teams, but Fox did not wish to dilute the majesty of a possible Red Sox-Yankees playoff series by adding another AL team,” Selig explained.
The coin flips will be determined in a round-robin tournament beginning on Wednesday evening. The tournament will be televised on ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes. Celebrity flippers Ryan Seacrest, Dick Vitale, and Dane Cook will be doing the flipping. The first round of flips to air on Wednesday evening are as follows:
1. Cubs-Reds
2. Astros-Cardinals
3. Brewers-Pirates
The winner of the tournament will be allowed to select one player from each of the remaining five teams in the NL Central to join the champion’s playoff roster, in the hopes that the NL Central representative will avoid being swept in the NLDS. The remainder of any regular-season games scheduled with NL Central teams will be forfeited in order to give the NL Central champion a chance to set its playoff rotation and to rest its starters.
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Will the ESPN Deportes feed be broadcast in Spanish or subtitled? I want to be sure that I able to discern the difference between heads and tails.
I believe it’s “cabezas” and “los tailos”.
The key to this coin flip situation is going to be consistency. Dave Concepcion should be in the Hall of Fame and he was a very consistent coin flipper. He used to say “Tails never fails. I can’t judge who will win these coin filps because I haven’t seen enough coin flips this year to make that determination but what I’m sure of is that if Jeter can stay healthy he will give his temmates the confidence they need to bring the Rocket back to pitch next season.
Haha!!! Nice one, Morgan.
There is only one team in the rest of the NL that has a losing record in play against the NLC, the Florida Marlins (15-20). Everyone else as of today is .500 or above
What about Houston? Or are you not including NL Central teams?
that’s only referring to intercompetition between divsions (Atlanta vs. NLC is >500, LAD vs. NLC>500, etc.)
After last night, the Cubs are 16-21 against Cincy, Pitt, and Houston so far this season
Milwaukee is 25-16
:puke:
That’ll be the difference if they blow this. Good God, that’s horrible.