Got be 2 of 3.....Maybe a team fights back out of the loser's bracket to make the finals. Maybe the other team is undefeated......To match them up in one "winner take all" is wrong. I believe we have had that happen before. It's only good if "your" team wins.
A single game lets you put your best athletes on the field to lay it all on the line. A series makes coaching way more important. I honestly like the single game championship. But the series didn't bother me too much. I think CPM was the better coach during the series, and that's why we won.
Series, for all the reasons that have already been mentioned. :crystal::geaux::crystal::geaux::crystal:
A single game makes a lot more memories than a series. If Warren Morris hit that homer in game 1, who would remember. Much more drama involved. A series does make sure the better team wins but I like the drama. Skip was good at making it happen. And would have that 1st game of this series been memorial if that was all there was.
The problem with the single game is if you win all of your games during the CWS and then lose the final game then you just been eliminated by a single loss in a double elimination tourney...and possibly by another team with one loss. A series evens the playing field so to speak. Plus think of the redemtion Coleman had by getting the last batter to ground out to take the win after being rocked in game 1. I'll take that memory just a much as the extra inning nail biter of game 1.
Ditto. The series has the finality of the two wins out of three. And if the teams split the first two games, you still get the drama of the final game for the championship.
I don't see how a series evens the field. If Texas had one loss going into the series the first game would have given them a second loss so they should have been eliminated. Both teams get a clean record in any championship scenario.
Thanks, RHans for making the point I was hoping to make, better than I did myself. I don't disagree with any of the points made in the thread for a series being a more definitive method for deciding a champion, but for sheer drama, give me one game, winner takes all.