Why is game 7 held at Cleveland?

Why is game 7 held at Cleveland?
Didn't da tiny bears have the best regular season record? What determines who gets home field in the final game?

Whichever league wins the all-star game get's home-field advantage in the world series.

This.

It's a ridiculous attempt to give meaning to a mid-season exhibition game and should be changed to whoever had the better record

That's frankly hilarious. But somehow typically American.

It's honestly just the MLB. The NHL and NBA give home ice/court to the team with the better record and the NFL hosts the Superb Owl at a neutral site, so the "home" team alternates every year.

Only MLB is this stupid.

It's actually perfect. Otherwise the all star fame would ve an irrelevant shitfest like the pro bowl.

>tfw too embarassed to answer this question

Like it should be.

Either
1. accept it's a gimmick and stop making it count for something
2. get rid of it entirely, or
3. keep it, make it count, but at least don't put in that "at least one player from every team" rule.

If it's going to determine home-field advantage, it should be the best of the best playing, not one person from every plus everybody else.

since they brought in this retarded rule has there actually been a noticeable uptick in players "trying" in the all-star game?

t-the all star game determined home field. Smh. I didn't know baseball did 2-3-2 though, 2-2-1-1-1 is objectively more fair.

Then you have to schedule extra travel days between games which fucks up pitching schedules

Why? The only good ASG weekend is basketball because of how stupid everything is and Kobe - Lebron type shit. Baseball does the right thing, you give players an incentive to try hard and give the fans a nice show.

2-2-1-1-1 is good for hokkei and basketball. The NBA had no business switching to 2-3-2 for a bit IMO. Baseball works better in 2-3-2

MLS has a great All Star Game, but obviously it isn't a model the other teams can imitate.

Inb4 >divegrass

Indians get the advantage playing in the AL

Superior league and they reweigh the records at the end of the season

If the Indians won say roughly only 85, Cubs would have home field

This is the dumbest fucking thing ever. Why should the cubs get screwed by the failures of some other chucklefucks? I thought Americans ranted about their sports being about "who is the best that day" and "Muh merit"?

it still is irrelevant.

No, cause 75% of the players know they have no shot at playing in the World Series. Plus home field doesn't matter in baseball

Its literally just home field advantage their chances aren't significantly reduced its just a small advantage. If they weren't going to win at Progressive they probably would not win at Wrigley, especially since its Kluber who they just seem to totally shit the bed against

Home field has some advantages, for example dimensions of the field can be abused by home teams, but the portion of home field advantage that comes from fans wasn't really there except in a couple instances (for example Old Yankee Stadium until they fucked it up)

There were plenty of cubbies in the AS game this year. They also had 5 games to win it at Wrigley. Instead they decided to be salty.

>implying playing game 7 in cleaveland is bad for the cusb since they get schwarber as a DH

this

Yep. It's all part of the plan.

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winawj

Cuck

>make fun of the DH rule and AL for using it
>use the rule to your advantage

Why is the NL so shit?

The NBA changed it because of how tiring the traveling in those Celtics/Lakers finals got

Americans are too busy eating to create an intimidating atmosphere. Home advantage is a euro phenomenom

Ironically, the Cubs might be better off without homefield advantage, due to Schwarber unavailable to field under NL rules.

This

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Everyone thinks it's fucking retarded except for those retards that set the rules for major league baseball. I've never met a baseball fan that thinks, "yep make this meaningless exhibition determine who gets home field advantage in the most important series in the sport"

The cubs have a better chance on the road imo even besides the dh thing. The pressure of playing game 7 in front of the home crowd could be crippling. A 108 years of built up tension, anxiety and nerves. One stupid thing like a fan touching a ball could set off a powder keg and a 'here we go again' feeling.

>Not playing game 7 at a neutral site

w-what?

>Not playing game 7 on the moon

Four match series (two home two away), aggregate scoring, run away rule

>2016
>Pitchers still batting and running the bases

Both leagues need the DH, it's better for baseball in the long run.

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