Baseball Diminished by Extra Playoff Teams is No Longer Important

When Bob Costas last was the lead broadcaster on a post season game emanating from Toronto, it was to me, a mandatory “watch the whole game intensely,” situation.

That was game 5 of the 1989 ALCS. This is not the case now.

It is not because Costas is not good, but because the game between the Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays is part of the extra playoff games format that makes the baseball regular season so much less important.

This makes baseball so much less important.

Alas if one has to leave late in a tie game between the teams, as I do, the fact the game is not on radio in New York adds to the “abandon hope” credo regarding the once great baseball, I have espoused since they added wild card and extra playoff teams.

Pictured above are Tony Kubek of NBC, A.L. President Dr. Bobby Brown and Rickey Henderson

after the Oakland A’s 5’d the Blue Jays in the ALCS en route to the 1989 title.