So Major League Baseball has switched things up when it comes to the Postseason this year. Instead of the normal 8 teams that make it to the playoffs, there are now ten teams that make it.
I have decided that I don't like it. Having 2 wild card teams in each league play a 1 game playoff to face the division champ with the best record cheapens the hard work put into a long arduous season of baseball.
Maybe if the two wild card teams played a 3 game playoff I would feel a little better about it, but I really don't see 1 extra game as "making it to the post season". I would honestly hate it if my team played 162 games and won the (1st) league wild card only to play one more game and be kicked out of the playoffs if they lose. Baseball is much too unpredictable a game for anything to be decided by just one game.
But why do I think this way?... my team (the D-backs) just barely won the NL West and I truly enjoyed being part of the playoff picture. This new setup just increases the team's chances of going to the 'ship every season. I understand why MLB did it, this will keep more fans invested for a longer period of time.
I like the idea of more teams going to the playoffs, I just don't like the idea of cheapening regular season play. Non-baseball fans complain that each game doesn't mean much- this just fuels their argument's fire.
Yeah everyone will say "win your division and you won't have to worry about that ONE game". Well you can't always win your division and I think being the winner of the 1st wildcard is much more respectable than the runner up wildcard.
Maybe it's just because of the abruptness of this change that the wild card playoff is one game instead of three, but Bud Selig should definitely consider changing that aspect in 2013 and beyond.
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