Source: dailytrojan.com --- Monday, January 29, 2018
Sam Arslanian | Daily Trojan Baseball is the most exciting sport. I have played Baseball for as long as I can remember, so it might be a bit biased for me to make this claim. But I have a justification for it. I am getting really tired of watching the same teams compete for championships. The New England Patriots win the Super Bowl seemingly every year, Alabama wins the College Football Playoffs and the NBA Championship is a toss up between the Warriors and the Cavs. It’s just boring now. Unlike its counterparts, the MLB hasn’t had a repeat winner since the 2000 season when the New York Yankees won their third World Series Ring in a row. In the College World Series, there hasn’t been a three-year championship streak since, oddly enough, the USC Trojans won five rings from 1970-1974. The average person can usually predict the winner of any basketball or football game by just picking the higher ranked team. On the other hand, in Baseball, there is always the possibility that the absolute worst team in the league will upset the No. 1 seed. Think back to 2012. The Houston Astros had one of its worst seasons in franchise history. They finished with a laughable 55-107 record and ended 42 games behind the division-winning Cincinnati Reds and 33 games behind a wild card berth. To put it lightly, they were horrible, but they still beat the World Series Champion San Francisco Giants once that season. Not to mention the fact that just five ...
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