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Originally Posted by whoman69
I don't know what's silly about it. Baseball sees their large market teams getting beat in the playoffs by wild cards who are in smaller markets. They're also seeing the wild card team win a fair share of the time. Since 2000 there has only been three seasons where a wild card didn't make the World Series. 2002 had both teams come from the wild card. If you have teams like the Phillies and the Yankees who can outspend their competition each year to get a divsional crown, anything baseball can do to make sure those teams beat the smaller market WC helps out the networks.
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Explain to me the advantage that this gives large market teams over small market teams.
Yeah sure, this may help a large-market team make the playoffs and win a WS that it otherwise may not have. Then again, it provides the
exact same opportunity to a small market team. Last year it would've put the Braves and the Red Sox in; one a large market team and the other a mid-market team.
The argument that this is just driven by a need to let more big-market teams in simply does not make sense; there's just no logic or reason to it.