I missed this when you posted it in the thread proper two days ago, so I'll reply here.
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Anyway, I said that because the wild card races don't seem to excite you very much. If the Rays win this, history will be made.
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The wild card races didn't excite me - until the final night, of course, at which point baseball slapped me in the face and said YOU PAY ATTENTION, DAMMIT, as it sometimes does. Before that, they were two teams who blew huge leads facing teams who were the benefits of those huge leads being blown. Eh. Seen it. Most of the time, the collapsing team still pulls it out and the race was largely all for naught. See the 2005 White Sox and the 2006 Cardinals, among others, in their respective division races.
What I was agreeing with you on is that I do not, on principle, have anything against small-market teams and/or their making the playoffs.
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Can I ask you something? Do you have any preferred team, or are you just a baseball fan in general?
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I'm a Cubs fan first, foremost and always and a baseball fan second. The first hat doesn't usually give me a whole lot to say when it comes to playoff time, so the second one, the hat I wear as I look around the league, the rosters, the records, the trends and more and take note of what I see, is where I do most of my talking.