PLAYOFF EXPANSION AGAIN?
Commissioner BUD SELIG admitted that there was serious discussion of adding two more teams to the MLB Playoffs this past off-season (article here).

"We had a serious discussion this past winter. I went into it thinking I want to add two more teams. But the more I looked at it, the more we talked about it, it was so great last October, this time I'm not sure."

Adding two more teams to the playoffs is a bad, bad idea. Here is why...
1)It will further diminish the significance of winning a division title. While it's good that it would create a distinction between winning a division title and being a wild-card team, it would allow another potentially mediocre team into the crap-shoot of a playoff system that baseball has become.
2)Under the proposed system, the two wild-card teams would play a one-game playoff to see who advances. A wild-card team with 94 wins plays a wild-card team with 88 wins on practically even ground? That's more ridiculous than a 100 win team playing an 89 win team in the best-of-five.
3)The more mediocre teams that are allowed into the playoffs, the more chance that a mediocre team will win it all.
4)Three rounds of playoffs is enough. You play 162 games to determine the best teams. If you can't beatout a few teams in 162 games, you don't deserve to be in the playoffs. If the MLB playoffs continue to expand, it'll turn into the NHL or NBA post-season, where nobody really cares about it until the conference (or league) finals and then the championship series.

Remember when you could remember all the teams that made the playoffs in baseball? It used to be a significant thing. In '91 the Pirates lost to Braves and the Twins beat the Toronto in the LCS. In 1982 the Brewers defeated California and St. Louis beat Atlanta. I can pretty much remember all the teams in the post season since divisional play began in 1969...Honestly, now I have difficulty remembering all the teams that made the playoffs two or three seasons ago. There is very little pride in making the playoffs...Look at the Atlanta Braves of the 1990's and into this century.

I know my friends tend to be purists, so I know how they feel. Is this something people want to see? Do people want to see an NBA/NHL styled post-season? Please let me know on the comments portion of this post.