Todat the news was finalized that the second two wildcards will be added in 2012. Here is what I wrote about it when the possibilty first came up:
"With the news that the our 1962 pledge brother Astros have moved to the
AL also comes the news that we will now have two wild cards per
division. I am sure that some people will find reasons to hate this but
it's a pretty great move in my opinion. It reinstates winning the
division as a huge benefit, it introduces a one game playoff which means
that no matter what, every years playoffs will have at least some great
drama. The most important reason - according to Mike Silva of NY
Baseball Digest in a post written today:
"The Mets would have made it every year from 1984-1990. They also
would have been in the postseason in 1997, 1999-2000, and 2007-2008."
What a wonderful alternate history this makes for? What a different
world we would live in where the 07 and 08 Mets make the playoffs.
Outside of the fact that we could have won a pennant or World Series by
the very nature of the new system we could have at least avoided the
collapse. Instead of being the 07 Mets who collapsed and lead to a
franchise decline we could be the 07 Wild Card winners who had a shitty
September. From a purely psychological stand point this would have been
great"
Love your writing style, man.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading, appreciate the compliment.
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