If you are like me, you are patiently waiting out the snoozefest that is the end of this baseball season before the playoffs start.
There are no more division races that are remotely interesting (Detroit-Minnesota backing into a playoff spot does not count).
If you are a fan of a particular team, you may be keeping an eye open to see if your team can hold on to a .500 record (you go, Mariners!), or you may be trying to measure the difference it makes in one's career to go from the AL to the NL (I see you there, Mr. Holliday).
Either way, the experiment known as the "wild card" has shown that a single extra playoff spot does not necessarily translate into September excitement. That is why I have come up a novel approach for fixing baseball and all that ails it.
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