Ny Rangers

Seven is perfect, as in best-of-seven playoff series, as in the absolute perfect formula for determining who should advance and who should go home,

And now we have the proof. Three runs a game isn’t going to cut it when they start playing the powerhouses. He has turned that into a clever and engaging book, “In Scoring Position: 40 Years of a Baseball Love Affair,” co-written by Bill Chuck. It is just a wonderful and fun read. In 2014 the Rangers beat the Penguins in a 2-1 thriller in Game 7 after recovering from a 3-1 deficit. And the only other time the cities have met in a Game 7? The most underrate part of “Winning Time,” which wrapped season one on HBO last week? You will stress-eat and sweat and chew your fingernails to the quick. Go back even further and you stumble across the regrettable “mini-series”: best two-of-three. Now the National League used that format four different times to settle first-place ties, and that makes sense. But by 1919 the game had grown so wildly popular, the owners figured more is better. That was desperation, and survival. In baseball, 90 feet between the basepaths is perfect geometry.