No opposition to expanded playoff plan (ESPN)
So baseball wants to add two more wild-card teams to the playoffs?
Commissioner Bud Selig’s plan to expand baseball’s playoffs to 10 teams gained a sense of inevitability after little to no opposition emerged during meetings this week with owners and general managers… “Eight is a very fair number but so is 10.”
Well, by that logic maybe 12 is also fair. Hell, why not 14? Let’s just take a page from NHL’s playbook and put about half of all teams in the playoffs. (I’m just not comfortable seeing hockey in June…or baseball in November.)
Baseball’s season is long enough. After 162 games, if a team isn’t one of the top 4 in the league, then sorry: see you next year. I wouldn’t have been comfortable if the 2010 Red Sox made the playoffs (which, under this new system, they would have) — a third-place team has no business making a run for the World Series, even if it is “my” team.
