Some people just don't get it (and that includes Selig). There are going to be years where say the 95-win Sox and 96-win Yankees fight it out to the very last day to win the division, while an 88-win team like the Rays is resting their players down the stretch just waiting for the 1 game playoff with David Price on the mound. I definitely can't wait to watch the rested Rays with Price on the mound vs the exhausted Red Sox with their #5 guy on the mound! Is it really fair that a team that proved itself over 162 games has to play just 1 game against a clearly inferior team just to have a chance of making the playoffs?

This new system also makes it possible that a team with the 2nd best record in MLB doesn't even make the playoffs (and no, the 1 game "playoff" isn't even the playoffs.) And there are not "2 more wild card teams," this is just Selig trying to make fans think there are more playoff teams, while realistically, it is just making the Wild card a coin-toss.

And why are people arguing that there will be more games against the NL? There will always have to be 1 interleague series at once (26 weeks = about 52 3-game series). Each team should play an interleague series 1 out of every 15 series. 1/15th is essentially 9 or 10 games per year.