Baseball is different - we all know that.
The variance in win% between the best and the worst is small compared to other sports. It's just a fact.
It's true in a 1-game sample, a 7-game series, and a 162-game season.
That being the case, expanding the MLB playoffs is a PURE money grab, which is why the owners wanted it. It has absolutely ZERO to do with giving more fanbases hope or reason to celebrate. Those are happenstance side-effects.
That being said, it's not to rain on anyone's parade....but a fact is a fact.
I'm obviously in the minority here. For whatever reason, all people care about is who wins the WS. Yeah, I have a problem when an 88-win team is forever known as the champion when 8 other teams proved they were better in a massive sample called the regular season.
The more I think about this, the more I compare it to die-hard NFL fans. Season-ticket holders who live and die with their team, when there's not even a thin link between them and the franchise. A franchise that just wants to extract every last nickel it can from its fan's pockets. A franchise that would move to a new city the moment it's told it can't rape the tax-payers of it's current location. People who can barely afford it buying those season tickets.......at least college football has some connection/loyalty (unless you're a Miami fan).
At least I got my degree there. At least I know UF isn't going to up and leave to Ocala or something.
Idk, I just can't shake the masses preferring crowning the champion of a sport through a series of 7-game samples rather than a huge, radically more valid sample.