MLB expands playoff format from 8 teams to 10

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Originally Posted by Psyko Tek

WHYYYYYY
ISN'T BASEBALL SEASON LONG ENOUGH?

why does the NFL and march madness rule

one and done
limited season

Baseball can't do that. The game is so crazily random, much more so than football and college basketball, that if you win 40% of your games, you are a really bad, awful, terrible team but if you win 60% of your games, you are one of the best in the league. If every round was one and done, the playoffs in baseball would lose almost all meaning, it would be a stupid crapshoot coinflip to see who wins the championship. (For similar reasons, baseball's seasons need to be very, very long.) You don't have to go to every flippin' game, just read the box score every morning, watch a few here and there, and go to 4 or 5 games if you want, and you are still a decent fan.

Wild Card teams, since they failed to win their division, do not deserve the same consideration. Let them fight a knockout round for our amusement.