They really need to make the Wild Card the best of three. It feels too insignificant and brief. I understand travel and scheduling issues, but those can be figured out.
I think I'm rooting for the Flappy Boys the rest of the way. Lowest salaried team in baseball.
absolutely not. It's perfectly fine as a play in game, and if you don't want the season to basically a coin toss at the end then just win the division. I would rather in general we just remove the second wild card slot in general and skip the whole thing instead of making it any more significant.
Also for the people talking about who they don't want to win it.
the last team I would want to win it - Yankees (let them have a decade without a world series birth since the 1910s :/ (and only their second decade since then to not win one as they didn't win one in the 80s))
followed by the Cards
followed by the Dodgers
followed by the Astros.
and after that I really don't care who wins it.
Only reason I don't mind the Astros is because even if they win it it would only be their second in their history, so even though they have a high payroll like the Dodgers and Yankees, I don't mind them too much.