In Reply to: It often seems to me that in a wild card playoff system . . . posted by BluBlood on June 24, 2009 at 11:08:40
... strong runner-up (ala the Red Sox in 2004, for example).
It's one reason I don't like wildcards in baseball. In my humble opinion, if 162 games isn't enough to distinguish one team from another, nothing will, and the nature of baseball is that any team can win on any given day (far more so than basketball or football, for example). So, that gives an unfair advantage to teams that may not have deserved to be there in the first place, and win because they got in a short hot streak.