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http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/07/chaos-there-is-the-potential-for-a-scheduling-nightmare-in-october/


Interesting read.  Selig and the big guns of baseball apparently overlooked Time Zones when they decided to expand the Wild Card teams

The actual breakdown of the "potential problem" is in this article:

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/page/rumblings120907/baseball-potential-postseason-mess

Let me outline why this won't happen:

This is the time of year when sportswriters (especially baseball writers) become very bored.  The Starks article is based on the Dodgers and Cardinals finishing in a dead heat for the 2nd wild card.  It ain't gonna happen.

As of right now, Atlanta has the lead for the Wild Card with St. Louis owning a 1.5 game lead for the 2nd wild card.  The 1.5 game lead is important.  Follow along:

First, the Dodgers have 21 games left.  St. Louis has 22 games left.  Of those games remaining, they have four head to head games.  They share a three game series with Washington and another three game series with San Diego.  That's 10 out of 21 games the Dodgers have where the statistical probability of leap frogging when they are sharing opponents - and the Cards have an extra game.

More simply put: Someone is winning this thing flat out.

Starks actually wrote “a high probability of the second wild card ending in a tie.”  Hyperbole at it’s finest.  In the history of the game, an actual tie has occurred less than 15 times.  The storm has to brew just right for it to happen, it won’t happen now.

If I were bored enough, which I’m not, I’d be willing to bet Starks was one of the guys who hated the idea of the second wild card…

OMG!!!! And here is another potental problem that could reign chaos on the Universe.  If both the Jets and Giants were to be the highest in their respective conf to advance to to the championship game, one of the games would need to be played on Saturday.

Odds of either the NFL or MBA nightmares coming true is too remote to worry about. 

haha fair enough..I was going along with the bored theme

I've always wondered what would happen if that were to occur.  Also, what if the Lakers and the Clippers ended up facing each other in the Western Conference Finals. 

Lakers and Clippers facing each other is the easiest thing in the world.  The logo on the floor changes based on who is designated the "home team" and that team's season ticket holders get priority.

There is more of a problem if the Lakers and Clippers are both in the first-round of the playoffs, but not against each other (and they were both the higher seeds in their matchups).  You'd have to schedule the games so as not to conflict.

^^^^To that point they actually have had a couple of occasions where they had a day/night Lakers/Clippers home games occuring on the same day. In fact I believe one of them was a playoff game last year. hey can change the Arena over in like 4 hours or something like that. There are videos on Youtube of the change at high speed. They actually take the court out and put in another one not just a logo change.