Baseball

Baseball is great at this time of the year. There are a bunch of teams still playing for a couple of playoff spots and the season is down to a couple of days. This is mostly because of the wild card. When the wild card was first introduced in 1995 I didn't like it because baseball had never had wild cards and I liked baseball the way it was. It only took me one season to begin to like the wild card because the Yankees won the first American League Wild Card. It didn't end well for the Yankees though when they lost 3 games in a row after winning the first two to get knocked out of the playoffs. i was devastated because this was the first time I saw the Yankees in the playoffs and it was the last season of my favorite player Don Mattingly's career and it was the only time he made the playoffs. This year the Yankees are the American League Wild Card. Hopefully its good luck since wild card winners have been very succesful in the playoffs in recent years.