Comments on: Second Wild Card Will Lead to More Meaningful Regular Season Baseball

By: QueeferSutherland

QueeferSutherland — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:54:09 +0000

If baseball was serious about bettering its playoffs, 12 teams would make the postseason, not 10.

By: Tim Ryan

Tim Ryan — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:23:43 +0000

he has done a helluva a job the last couple of decades doing just that.

"Hell of" is the proper spelling.

By: mmonast

mmonast — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:10:10 +0000

Expanding baseball playoffs will lead to a more meaningful regular season expanding a college football playoff will lead to a more meaningful regular season expanding march madness will lead to a more meaningful regular season

By: oskie

oskie — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:37:10 +0000

i just don’t why you don’t call a spade a spade. it has zero to do with competitiveness. that’s just media friendly. this about making more money, and that is what Selig does best. he has done a helluva a job the last couple of decades doing just that. that’s what makes him a great commissioner. if the focus was on the division races, they would get rid of interleague and have these teams play one another another 3 or 4 times a piece (or whatever that works out to). but, they don’t, because interleague makes money. as a fan of the sport of baseball, i hate both the addition of the additional wild card team,because it rewards mediocrity. i hate interleague because it ruins the whole AL vs NL in the World Series. Hell, I’m a Yankee fan and hate the DH.

By: stemi

stemi — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:40:01 +0000

Say goodbye toquite possibly the day in sports, the final day of the regular season when 2 teams okay for do-or-die. Now 4 teams get to cruise control into September..

By: TexansFan

TexansFan — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:33:42 +0000

So they didn’t compete for the division before? Some teams are better during the regular season. And sometimes the wild card wins the World Series. Putting them at a competitive disadvantage to begin the division series is not good for the rest of the playoffs.

By: cassino

cassino — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:27:52 +0000

Because it is hard it provides enough of a disincentive to the wild card to keep top teams competing for the division until the finish.

Yeah, because usually a team has sewn up the wildcard by July and just packs it in for the rest of the season.

By: oskie

oskie — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:01:21 +0000

What baseball wants is the Red Sox and Yankees going balls out to win the AL East in those final series

so the Red Sox and Braves just gave up last year and didn’t actually have the worst September collapse ever? got it. nothing meaningful for them.

By: oskie

oskie — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:56:22 +0000

We are noted Selig critics.

best commish in sports. i can see why you would not like him.