Only 4 teams making the playoffs per conference wouldn't end well.  Basically you would have a lot more teams forced to tank in order to make it with the elites.  

16 teams making the playoffs isn't a bad system.  Out west its a nice battle.  But the East suffers from being too top heavy.  The top 5 teams could easily do battle with the top 5 in the West.  After that its just a huge gap; and there's nobody to really blame except for the incompetent east owners.  This year looks a bit more competitive from 6-8 if certain teams can manage to pane out for the 82 games.  Detroit, Wizards, Raptors, Cavs, Hawks, maybe even the Celtics; they all have a chance to bring something barring injuries.

Makes sense, I remember you saying that was your gripe with football.

I got tickets for the Heat scrimmage this Sunday, I saw they were free and diligently waited for the opening window :cool:

Hopefully I get to see a lot of Beasley and Oden in the lineups

Westbrook out 4-6 weeks.PSP107

Things have really went south for OKC since their finals appearance.

The West is so stacked this year that the Thunder can't let themselves fall behind or somebody will be ready to take their seed.  I hope KD is ready cause they still don't seem to have a reliable 3rd option to ease the scoring.

[QUOTE="Master_Live"][QUOTE="No_Hablo_Ingles"] No. -Halftime-

Even football?  That game is built on upsets/random occurences

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or Obama do his job. Congress has passed a funding bill.

WhiteKnight77

He is dong his job. People elected him = Affordable Healthcare Act is mandate = Republicans are ignorning the people and not doing THEIR job.

Obamacare isn't some secret suddenly unleashed on the public. They knew he wanted this in 2008 and they knew he was still pushing it in 2012.

The majority elected him twice.

The GoP are the failures here.

If the public really wants Obamacare, then why do polls repeatedly show that the public does not approve of it? 

Since we're using outside polls as mandates now, how about we get those background checks on gun owners like the majority of Americans seemed to support in polls.

[QUOTE="-Halftime-"][QUOTE="monkeytoes61"] Yeah, I suppose you don't have to watch them all. And it doesn't help that the Mariners are on an eleven year dry spell with no playoffs. I hate to be fairweather, but that doesn't make baseball season fun. monkeytoes61

Seattle is a "Whoever is winning" town. Nobody goes to Safeco anymore. But in 95 when they went on that amazing run, the Kingdome was packed.

In 2010, I got tickets to a Seahawks game for 40 bucks. Today, you won't find anything under 100.

The year before the Sonics left, they were 28th in attendance because they weren't any good, yet people are still bitching about it around here. Seattle has some of the worst sports fans I've ever seen.

To be fair, I think it works like that for most sports cities when the hometeam struggles.  People won't spend the money to support the team if they can't manage to put a good product on the field.  Why pay to sit through their team getting blown out, when they can stay home on the couch with the luxories of convient bathroom breaks and channel surfing. 

Of course, this isn't so for teams that are consistently in the running like New England.  Or cities where the sport is really all they have, such as Green Bay.

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[QUOTE="-Halftime-"] It definitely doesn't. Nothing is fun when there has been a drought of that long. I also think Seattle is more of a football and basketball town as well though. CWEBB04z

Seattle is a "Whoever is winning" town. Nobody goes to Safeco anymore. But in 95 when they went on that amazing run, the Kingdome was packed.

In 2010, I got tickets to a Seahawks game for 40 bucks. Today, you won't find anything under 100.

The year before the Sonics left, they were 28th in attendance because they weren't any good, yet people are still bitching about it around here. Seattle has some of the worst sports fans I've ever seen.

Lol I always hear let's go Heat chants when they're playing in ATL

 I think their luck runs out tonight in the superdome though.

Jagged3dge

Yup

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Think I like the 2-2-1-1-1 better.

36Ounces

Off-topic, but who's the pornstar in your avatar.

Just some ho my girl wants me to take off my avy.

Got to make sure nobody irl knows about your online activities :P