http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8390368/This-year,-wild-card-is-hurting,-not-helping?MSNHPHCP>1=39002
Sure, the wild card has added drama to the regular season and engaged more fans in more cities. However, let's not forget that the wild card comes with a cost. That cost is the division race between two or more truly great teams. Think about it: In the wild-card era, when two division rivals are among the best teams in the game there's often less at stake because the second-place team has the wild card berth to fall back on. Remember the classic NL West race of '93, when the 104-win Braves won the division and the 103-win Giants failed to make the postseason? Those days are mostly over, thanks to the "hedge effect" of the wild card.
Would anyone agree with this? I don't even like his evidence he provides to back up his opinion. It was good that a 103 win team didn't make the playoffs, because of a regular season race? Wouldn't it be even more excited had their been a Wild Card at that time and the two teams met? Division races are division races, the wild card doesn't change that too much. You still want that banner right? I see his point, but he wrote a whole article on the matter. No way should you argue that it was better before. So instead of 4 teams in the playoffs there would be 3. Fuck that. I like the playoffs. I like seeing wild cards threaten incumbent division winners. It's dramatic, it makes even greater storylines than this 103 no postseason Giants shit, and it makes great baseball happen.
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Good post.
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