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Ed Coleman posts his thoughts on the Wild Card:  WFAN – The Fan – A Wild Thought

The real solution is the Bob Costas Solution which he wrote about in his book, oh, 10 years ago.

Add a second WC team in each league.

The two wild cards play a ONE GAME playoff on the Monday.  Boo-hoo about the travel.  Play better.  You had 162 games to win the division, you should have tried harder.

The one game do or die forces you to use your ace to stay alive.

Then, after you’ve won the one gamer, on the Tuesday you get to travel to the city of the #1 seed and you play again.  You are tired, you wasted your ace, and you are on the road.   Too bad, you should have played better during the 162 games.

This solution also eliminates teams from coasting once they clinch a WC under the present scenario…you’d try darn hard to avoid a one game do or die.

Costas gets ripped but he’s dead-on about such things.  In the book he also suggested moving the Astros to the AL so each league would have 15 teams (and Texas would have fewer TV-unfriendly start times on the road)…and also thought it was odd that all the great home run hitters of the 20th century decided to play between 1995 and whenever the book came out.

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