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Split doubleheader Wild Card series?
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08:21 AM ET 10.09 | Considering the way Atlanta's season ended, one can forgive GM Frank Wren for admitting to a feeling of emptiness so soon afterward, but he also sat down for a wide-ranging Q&A on Monday. Thinking outside the box, could they perhaps play a three-game Wild Card series in two days? "That's one off the things we discussed at the general managers meetings, make it a best two-out-of-three and play a split doubleheader the first day. I think all of us would prefer that. I mean, if you're playing a team that's got Randy Johnson -- they really don't have much else, but they've got Randy Johnson -- you're likely going to lose. But that same team is going to go into the playoffs and get swept."
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It's always the losing teams that want to make changes.
THE BISHOP!
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GM Wren you can play 2 out of 3, or 3 out of 5, or 4 out of 7, it doesn't matter which if you make 3 errors in a game and give it away.
toad
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If there is a baseball god....then the Cardinals and Tigers should lose ...because neither one deserves to be in the playoffs....
Sgt. Schultz
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No. A wild card is a wild card. Why should division winners sit around another day, they already sit three days off.
50yearfan
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Win your Division !!
hbomb
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Respectfully disagree. The one-game wildcard (as opposed to a one-game playoff) is patently unfair. Teams play 162 games to get there. Atlanta had a far superior record to St Louis's.
Perhaps MLB should just start the season in mid-March at warm weather locations or in Florida and Arizona.
dkredsox1
Aarhus, DK
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It will prob take a team like the Cards to win it all again to show MLB that a team that finished 9 games behind in their division and 6 games behind the 1st wild card team that something needs changed.
Clintster
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Yep.
And if a team has a Randy Johnson-like pitcher, and not much else, what the hell are they doing in the playoffs?
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Harrodsburg, KY
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Then they should have won the game.
The infield fly call, while terrible, didn't cost Atlanta the game. Those errors did.
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Harrodsburg, KY
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Cardinals won it all last year, so I guess the baseball gods are dead.
h2opololpunk
Gainesville, FL
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Play two games. Soccer does this routinely. If it's 1-1, most total runs wins. If it's still tied, most runs away from home; still tied, fewest errors, still tied, most hits, etc., etc. doesn't need to be a "best of" series.
John in Nerk
Newark , NY
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The Reds might have something to say about that.
Yogi-Zen
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Before 1995, the emphasis was on winning the division. If that's what Baseball really wants, then throw out the wild card(s) all together. But that's not what baseball wants. That's just MLB's excuse for screwing up. The Atlanta game proved why this won't work in the future.
What MLB wants is to milk the fans for every dime they have. Through tickets sales and tv broadcasts. Baseball is a sport fans follow for six months; it's not football which plays 16 games. The sport is built on winning or losing a series. The 2012 post season will be a black eye on MLB for years to come. And the Atlanta game proves it. I believe fans were more frustrated with the situation their team was in than the call by the umpire; 6 months of following their team just so MLB can kick the fans in the gut. Every baseball team has a bad game or a bad inning. If this is where baseball wants to go, with a due or die wild card format, they will lose fans instead of gaining them.
MLBfan37
Winter Springs , FL
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Exactly!
.Fah Q.
Corona , CA
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If there was a baseball god, Bud Selig would be dead.
juan
Athens , AL
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I love the new format and I know a lot of other fans that do too.
Sure, as you pointed out, it adds another stream of revenue for MLB, but it also adds drama for the fans, which is really what the playoffs are for.
Further, it gives baseball a day for fans to look forward to some do-or-die games. I had a party last Friday for the games and people were psyched to be watching elimination games.
SlinkyRedfoot
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Here, here.
SlinkyRedfoot
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Precisely. I think he is referencing the one-game playoff between Mariners and Angels when they tied for the division lead, but Seattle had a lot more than Johnson. If they hadn't, they wouldn't have ended the season tied for first.
Traded to Seattle
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