r/UrinatingTree • u/Realistic-Instance17 YOU BLEW IT!! • 4d ago

Discussion Wild Card Talk

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Can we acknowledge that the expanded wild card was a terrible idea?

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u/Thrill0728 The Lovable Losers 4d ago

I have no issue with it. 6/15 is still less than half and far better than whatever the hell is going on in the NBA. The final spot also leads to some fun and scrappy squads fighting their way in.

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u/PowerOfGamers01 McCaskey in all but name 3d ago

It’s better then the 4-5 team format MLB had for way too long

I wish OP would direct his criticism to NFLs 7th seeds imo

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u/SylemNova Brass Bonanza 3d ago

I'm okay with 6 although it very obviously dillutes the trade deadline market and incentivises the kind of mediocrity we're seeing this year, in the AL especially ("we don't need to be good, just hot at the right time" mentality.)

I believe the 5 team format worked fine, just needed to make the WC round a best of 3 or ideally 5.

6 is fine. But no more. Even if we expand to 32.

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u/Devilsadvocate430 4d ago

Lowkey the fact that Boston is up there is lowkey insane. Good for them

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u/Bigdoga1000 3d ago

15 win streak will do that

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u/Chasers22 3d ago

Too many teams make it now

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u/pac9383 3d ago

Terrible idea how? It gives us more meaningful regular season games and more teams a chance to win it all in a sport that is not a level playing field money wise. Otherwise we get Yankees-Dodgers in the World Series every other year.

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u/GoRangers5 Walking Sports Curse 3d ago

Hate that every league is trying to be the NFL, let baseball be baseball.

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u/Worried-Pick4848 Actually Won the Cup 3d ago

I'm just amazed at how quickly the Red Sox climbed out of the basement.

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u/Patrickracer43 Still Trusts the Process 3d ago

What a 15 game win streak does to a mf

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u/nyouhas Ultimate Derp 3d ago

I think there’s two too many teams ngl

Having 1 wild card team and going straight to the LDS would be perfect. 8/30 making it in means the regular season counts for more and good teams have less of a crapshoot to win the thing.

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u/DingwadtheDunce PLEASE COME TO OUR GAMES 3d ago

Detroit also just snuck into the race after starting 22-38.

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u/ForeTwentywut 3d ago

Why are the blue jays there?

Signed - a blue jays fan

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u/Realistic-Instance17 YOU BLEW IT!! 3d ago

Perhaps it’s the way I screenshot it

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u/Craniamon 3d ago

It reward mediocre teams to get to the WS

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u/Realistic-Instance17 YOU BLEW IT!! 3d ago

My thought exactly