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I heard that the Yankees beat the Red Sox and wrapped up the AL East today. I sent off my condolences to my kids.

I was immediately told that the Sox have a shot at the so called "wild card".

I forgot about that. Actually, I never thought about it because I left baseball before it was thrown into the mix.

When I was a kid there weren't even divisions which is just a way to get playoffs which all run to the 7 game end to make more money.

In fact that may have been when I bailed out of baseball. Or maybe it was when the broadcasts all became giant cartoon graphics and shit. I go back to the old AM radio broadcast where the guy read the plays off the teletype and played crowd noise and bat sounds with his little 78 rpm record and wood block.

Back then the game was pure. The AL and the NL played it out and then had the World Series. That was it.

What next? A roulette wheel to tell which of five wild cards will be the actual WS team?

How about a reality show where the players on each side live together for the duration of the series and we all vote on who should play in the actual games?

Maybe a "Dancing With the Stars" kind of show.

Oh. They did that. It was called Damn Yankees. A winner.

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