re: 1 Game wild card is awful, but at least the right team won

I like it. Baseball is a LONG season and, particularly this year, many of the division races were decided months before the end of the season. By the time we started Sept. it was a done deal that LA, Houston, Washington, Cleveland, were going to be the division winners. The two wildcard formats gives fans of other teams a reason to remain interested all the way until the end (most years).

Sure, it may seem a bit unfair to have 162 games essentially come down to one game. But the other way of looking at it is those 2 teams shouldn't otherwise be in the playoffs (even though there are many times the WC team has a better record than one or more of the division winners). Therefore, it's more of a play-in game vs. the beginning of the playoffs.

Perfect? No. And I can understand why some don't like it. However, the format still allows the 6 division winners the opportunity to play series as opposed to just one winner take all game.

Admittedly, I don't follow MLB that closely throughout the regular season. But for pure drama and excitement, I think the MLB playoffs are the best of any American sport. It's not drawn out over 2.5 months with over half the league in the playoffs (like the NBA). We get important games all week (unlike the NFL which only plays on the weekends) and everything in condensed into one month