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I'd love to watch a #4 team play a #5 team, one game. You could have 1995 every year.
There's a "step into the future to get to the glorious past" aspect of this, too, Doc. You touched on it, of course.
1. The Wild Card becomes much less valuable than a Division Championship, as it should.
2. The history of baseball is replete with one-game playoff (or playoff-like) games. Man, while every year might be like 1995, even better, it might be like 1978 and every light-hitting infielder might become a Bucky "Fricking" Dent.
A great idea.