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Post by HMARK Center on Sept 28, 2015 11:06:27 GMT -5
Just thinking about this as baseball is in its final week and teams are cinching up playoff spots - is there an appropriate time, title or whatever that warrants a full-on champagne locker room celebration?
I know, hard hitting questions, here, but screw it, it's fun.
For the record, you don't really see the champagne celebrations in most leagues until a team wins the entire championship, but baseball teams do it seemingly every step of the way/every playoff series win.
Personally, I think baseball needs to dial it back; I think it's cool to celebrate winning a division title (after 162 games, it's warranted), as well as winning a league pennant or the World Series, but it's overkill when teams are having the celebrations after clinching one of the Wild Card spots, where they've only qualified to play in a one-game sudden death knockout round and nothing more, and having them after winning in the Divisional Round, a round there's no championship or title attached to.
Meanwhile, I think it'd be a bit more fun if the other leagues had them after conference title rounds, just to demonstrate the significance of those achievements even while you're still focused on the big prize. Probably will never happen in hockey: those guys often don't even want to touch the conference title trophy, let alone really celebrate it.
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Post by Reflecto on Sept 28, 2015 18:15:49 GMT -5
I still think the concept of escalating celebrations would work better there:
-Clinch a playoff spot, celebrate with sparkling water. Make it to the divisional playoffs, you can celebrate with soda. Make the LCS and you can celebrate with cheap beer. Win the pennant and you can celebrate with good beer, and then win it all and the champagne celebration happens.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2015 18:53:29 GMT -5
After every base hit(easy there 1986 Darryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden)
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Post by Push R Truth on Sept 29, 2015 12:46:02 GMT -5
A team like the Cards should celebrate winning the Division with a simple high five and maybe ordering out Pizza. Save the bubbly for the World Series.
A team like the Cubs should get hookers and drugs and burn the hotel to the ground for winning a single playoff series.
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Post by The_Don_Mecha on Sept 30, 2015 0:09:28 GMT -5
When you win a championship. Whether it's a conference or overall pro championship, that's about the only time you should celebrate with the sham-pag-a-nah.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Sept 30, 2015 1:40:53 GMT -5
A team like the Cards should celebrate winning the Division with a simple high five and maybe ordering out Pizza. Save the bubbly for the World Series. A team like the Cubs should get hookers and drugs and burn the hotel to the ground for winning a single playoff series. Pretty much. The A's celebrated their wild-card clincher in 2012 with champagne (they ended up winning the division on the last day), since they were supposed to lose 100 games that year. |
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Sept 30, 2015 13:30:09 GMT -5
Interestingly enough, someone on the radio made a very valid point this morning about the Dodgers and celebrations. . Last night, they clinched the NL West and had the full on party afterwards, and the host said something along the lines of "You have a 300 million dollar payroll, you *should* be consistantly winning the N.L West, if not going to/winning the World Series. Instead, they've beenb bounced early and their ace (Kershaw) can't win crap in the postseason. Hold off the celebrations until you guys actually, you know, win something really worth celebrating"
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Sept 30, 2015 14:56:19 GMT -5
I agree on the baseball comment. Definitely dial it back. I'll give a pass for clenching a division. But it sure was easier to admire that when there were a total of four divisions instead of 6. The wild card clench, no way. Only if you clench on the last game of the season.
When Toronto clenched a PLAYOFF spot the other day, I thought it bush league to champagne celebrate it. Why? Because you're winning the division. You just cheapened what winning the division means. You're just happy with a wild card? No way would I as a manager or person in charge allow that celebration. Keep the eyes on the prize, gentlemen, and we will toast each other when we topple our entire division.The Yanks are settling for "good enough." But the division winners should've been sending the message that "we are better than just good enough."
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Post by HMARK Center on Sept 30, 2015 18:26:32 GMT -5
Interestingly enough, someone on the radio made a very valid point this morning about the Dodgers and celebrations. . Last night, they clinched the NL West and had the full on party afterwards, and the host said something along the lines of "You have a 300 million dollar payroll, you *should* be consistantly winning the N.L West, if not going to/winning the World Series. Instead, they've beenb bounced early and their ace (Kershaw) can't win crap in the postseason. Hold off the celebrations until you guys actually, you know, win something really worth celebrating" Eh, I don't really agree; baseball has the most meaningful regular season in all of sports, and coming out on top over 162 games is a major accomplishment. I liken it to a professional theater group finishing a great run of a touring show and have a party to celebrate it. Besides, the playoffs really are largely a crapshoot; it's not like the Dodgers losing in October somehow cheapens their regular season accomplishments, nor does it diminish their talent level. That said, I get the point about "you're a team with a payroll that dwarfs all others; you SHOULD expect to be here", but I'm also not in the clubhouse and not in a position to judge guys wanting to party with their buddies. |
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Post by MrElijah on Oct 6, 2015 14:07:27 GMT -5
A team like the Cards should celebrate winning the Division with a simple high five and maybe ordering out Pizza. Save the bubbly for the World Series. A team like the Cubs should get hookers and drugs and burn the hotel to the ground for winning a single playoff series. I believe Chicago might burn to the ground if The Cubs win it all. |
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Post by Spider2024 on Oct 6, 2015 20:17:03 GMT -5
I'm ok with the champagne after clinching a playoff spot in baseball, even the Wild Card. It's a long 162 game season, and there are only 10 spots, and we've seen wild cards win the World Series, so it's an accomplishment. After that, I guess do it for getting to the World Series if you haven't been there recently (so not St Louis or Kansas City).
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Oct 7, 2015 12:07:19 GMT -5
Winning the wild card game and doing a champagne celebration seems a bit much to me.
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Post by Sam Punk on Oct 7, 2015 12:50:29 GMT -5
Any day ending in y.
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Post by Cyno on Oct 8, 2015 16:03:34 GMT -5
I think it's fine to party and celebrate with the champagne after one of three situations:
- Clinching a playoff berth, be it through division win or wild card.
- Winning your conference (or in the MLB, league) championship.
- Winning the sport's championship.
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