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The Wild Card game is an abomination. The Wild Card game is awesome. - A Hunt and Peck

Both things can be true.

Wild Card Game - St Louis Cardinals v Atlanta Braves Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images

There is something simply fantastic about elimination baseball. The stakes are high. every pitch has meaning. A game is never truly over until the last out is recorded. Safe leads do not exist. It is wonderful. And the Wild Card Play-In game is this personified. It is by nature, wild and unpredictable. After 162 games a team’s season will end with only a small taste of postseason baseball to show for it. The winner earns the right to at least three more games. The loser goes home. It riveting. Two teams duking it out - best against best.

I mean, it is still an abomination. Baseball is not meant to be played one game at a time. It is too unpredictable. There is too much variance. That is why they play 162. That is why the winner is determined by a series.

But darn, is it fun! Maybe that is all that matters. (Don’t like it, win your division, right?)

Yanks' Aaron Judge homers in AL Wild Card Game | MLB.com

Byron Buxton leaves game after awesome catch in AL Wild Card Game | SBNation.com

A foul tip hit Gary Sanchez juuust below the belt, and David Robertson's reaction was perfect | MLB.com

Gary Sanchez took a foul tip right to the ol’ wild card | SBNation.com

Yankees power way to ALDS | MLB.com

The Yankees won because they were the better team, but there was a cost | SBNation.com

what else is going on in baseball...

Positional breakdown of NL Wild Card Game | MLB.com

Find out if you are more Denver or Phoenix before the NL Wild Card Game | MLB.com

Players to Root for in the Playoffs | FanGraphs Baseball

Rating All the Playoff Teams | FanGraphs Baseball

Zack Greinke’s Simple Slider Solution | FanGraphs Baseball

Hunter Greene, Rangers Conversion Arms, and More from Instructional League | FanGraphs Baseball

Las Vegas native Chasen Shreve threw out AL Wild Card Game first pitch | SBNation.com

This ESPN baseball graphic is accidentally perfect | SBNation.com

Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado finally get their night on the national stage - SweetSpot | ESPN

what the cardinals are up to...

Solly Hemus, last Cardinals player-manager, dies at 94 | Cardinal Beat | stltoday.com

BenFred's 5: What do Cardinals need? It's all about the bat | Ben Frederickson | stltoday.com

Cards expected to add Wisdom, O'Neill to 40-man roster | St. Louis Cardinals | stltoday.com

KNOW THINE ENEMY...

the nl central

Hunter Greene, Rangers Conversion Arms, and More from Instructional League | FanGraphs Baseball

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