the 163rd and 164th game

baseball:  So i heard today that it is all but offical that Bud Selig is going to aprove adding one extra team into the wild card in the Major League Playoffs.  Let me just tell all of baseball how thankless that sounds.  It is a slap in the face to those teams that manage to qualify for the wild card.  Also it is a slap in the face to the regular season.  162 games should be enough to find out who the four best teams are.  Not to mention it is slap in the face to that fourth place (wild card) team.  It says "Thanks for 162 games of hard work and dealing with injuries and making the right moves at the trade deadline if needed.  Now for that hard work you have to play a sudden death game for your reward."  It is great for drama sure.  But isn't the hard work deserving of a playoff berth?  Isn't it just a chance for one more primetime Espn televised game?  Isn't it just a jerk reaction to the drama we saw at the end of last season where we saw both seemingly inevitable wild card teams, The Braves and The Red Sox, finish a collapse nothing short of epic and then one of those teams that stole the wild card go on to win the World Series?  Baseball's regular season is a brutal grind with that many games.  Don't dilute that by going after one last nationally televised game, for drama that in most years, unlike this one, won't exist.  Don't mess with a good thing.