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September Baseball

When Major League Baseball instituted a realignment from two to three divisions in each league I was totally against it. The main reason was the wild card. For those of you who are not sports fans (you have probably already stopped reading but anyhow) the wild card spot in the playoffs goes to the team in each league with the best record but did not win its own division.

I thought that this would degrade the World Series because a team that did not even win its own division could win the World Series. Would baseball become like hockey and basketball where they play a whole season to eliminate a few teams? Okay, I overreacted.

The Phillies are currently atop the National League Wild Card standings. At 13 games behind Atlanta there is realistically no hope for the Phils to win the Eastern Division but here it is after Labor Day and and the season is still exciting, not only for Philly fans but there are seven teams within five games in the National League.