No Expansion: MLB Should Keep Playoffs As Is

Posted: 23rd September 2009 by Tim Jackson in MLB
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I really like Peter Gammons. I respect him, and I think that he is one of the more knowledgeable baseball guys out there. Sure, he has his biases (he seems to occasionally favor two little baseball towns in the Northeast...places called New York and Boston. Ever heard of them?), but on the whole, I believe that he is one of the more insightful baseball minds in today's media. I regularly read his stuff on ESPN, and for the most part, I tend to agree with him. However, when I read about how Gammons would like to see the MLB expand its playoff format to include two wild card teams from each league, I couldn't help but immediately disagree. I am a football guy through and through, but I love the MLB playoffs. The intensity of a seven-game series between two rivals cannot be matched, even by t ...

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