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Originally posted by 28inches
Dad, that's one way to look at it. But if they added more wild card teams, would it be more exciting? I didn't like it then, and I don't like it now. It's a manufactured excitement, like the canned noise you hear at a ballpark today. Too many teams, too many play-off spots and too many inferior ballplayers. There is a lot of lousy ball being played today.
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No I think one wildcard is sufficient. Do you think its fair that a team that has a better record than a division winner doesn't make the playoffs.
In other sports like basketball and hockey the division winner gets home court preference but the top 8 teams make the playoffs, why should baseball be any different (granted 8 is to many).
I do agree there are to many teams. Pitching has been thinned out, ERA's are up and pitchers that wouldn't make a team are some teams #3 starter.
There is a lot of lousy ball being played today but the wildcard race always seems like some of the best ball late in the season as of the past few years. 3-4 good teams usually seperated by 2-3 games. a lot more fun than a division leader out in front by 12 1/2 this time of year. In the National league the Divisions are pretty much done, although the Giants have an outside chance of catching the Dodgers because they still have 6 games against them. But there are 5 teams within 3 games of the wildcard, THAT should make for some good september ball.
Canned noise you get everywhere across all sports. If you want to stop that we need to stop naming things like Fleet Center, Gillette Stadium, 3Com Park and other commercialized names. As long as corporate america want to advertise via sports we are going to have canned noise.