Talk:1988 National League Championship Series

Major Edit Job
This needs a MAJOR edit job. Whoever is writing this in the passive voice needs to learn English. The repetitive use of 'would' makes this a sloppy article.

Question
One question that remains unanswered for me due to my youth at the time (I was 10) and a faulty memory:

Why did the Dodgers have home-field advantage in this series when the Mets had the better record? -Eugene Huang 06:37, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Eugene,

Back in those days, there were only two divisions as opposed to three, and the team with the best record did not automatically get home field. The two divisons rotated home field advantage with the East getting it one year and the Mets the next. When it was best of five, the West started at home in the odd years and the East in the even ones.

It changed in 1986. The Mets won the East and should have had home field, but the NFL had a Monday Night Football game scheduled for Houston's Astrodome. MLB caved, and the Astros got home field. The next year, they changed it around and gave the East home field, a move that enabled the Cards to go home to Busch for the last two games. And thus, the Mets were the road team in 1988.

It is ironic that the Mets got messed over both times they should have had home field - in 1986 and 1988. My guess is they switched it because otherwise the West would have had home field advantage three years in a row. I hope this helps.

Maestroh Bill Brown

You write:

"The Mets won the East and should have had home field, but the NFL had a Monday Night Football game scheduled for Houston's Astrodome."

I don't quite understand. Was it thus more convenient to start the NLCS in Houston instead of New York? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.82 (talk) 17:53, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:20, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Jay Howell suspension
In the game 3 writeup, I find:

"Sure enough, Howell was found to have pine tar on his glove, and he was immediately ejected from the game, and would later be suspended for the remainder of the series."

This series ran 7 games. Am I thinking of the right suspension when I recall that his suspension was soon shortened? (3 games initially, with Bart Giamatti agreeing to shorten it to 2 games because it was a severe penalty given the relatively short series -- compared to regular season?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.20 (talk) 15:12, 26 August 2013 (UTC)