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a tie doesn't mean that - it can mean just that a superior team can be thwarted either by luck, or by a well-organised or committed inferior team. it's why sport is, well, sporting. so in baseball, because you insist on all or nothing, the crushing team can walk away with nothing due to the crushed team getting lucky at the end. sounds crap. at least today your team got a point from the game.