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Assessing MLB races (or lack thereof) with one month remaining - Ted Keith - SI.com

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Thank goodness for the wild card. Once thought of as a gimmick and derided as a detriment to the traditions of the national pastime, the wild card has been both pennant-race savior and pennant-race destroyer in its first decade and a half. Three previous seasons (1998, 1999, 2007) have needed a ...

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Beyond the Box Score — ... we can be so dispassionate. Table of Contents Judging The Wild Card Scheduling for the Playoffs Magic Number, Reconceived Discussion Question of the Day Judging The Wild Card This is the 16th season of the wild card system, which means pretty soon it'll be asking to borrow the car and thinking about college. SI's Ted Keith thinks it's worth reflecting yet again on the benefits of the system: Three previous seasons (1998, ...

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Palm Ball NW/Bleeding Blue and Teal — ... Last week SI’s Ted Keith wrote about how the wild card has made baseball more exciting since it’s inception in the mid-90s, which produced a response from ...