Baseball: Two “Wild Card” Teams in the World Series

The 2014 World Series, an all wild card one for the second time, both involving the San Francisco Giants (the Angels beat them in 7 games in 2002), begins tomorrow night with the Kansas City Royals hosting the Giants.

The series is considered even by the odds makers and I have no strong opinion as to which team will prevail.

However, I do have a strong opinion about the horrible wild card presence and the now evident absurdity of the second wild card team and the “play in” game.

This is to take nothing away from either the Royals or Giants, each of whom, won the necessary games under the baseball playoffs mandate to get to the Series.

Yet it must be noted that neither team won its division, thus over the course of the “true test,” 162 game season, came up short.

“Coming up short,” is not “stopping short” as was the case in a “Seinfeld” episode that irritated the Jerry Stiller played, “George Costanza.”

I try to diffuse with possible laughter, the honest, perhaps overblown rage I feel that baseball rewards 2 to 3 hot weeks of play and stops “way short” of honoring a 162 game season.

Further, the nature of baseball where just about any team could beat another in a short series, adds to the horrible decision, Bud Selig and baseball made in ever implementing this horror, called the wild card (ie your team does not have to win its 162 game regular season entity to qualify for the playoffs).

Click here for “Stopping Short” clip