Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's what the Gods of the Holy Diamond must have known when they laid out the new playoff format for the National Pastime...
Gone are the days of two-division leagues and a four-team playoff system that was the most exclusive of any major professional sport. Instead, the brisk autumn days of this baseball season have been marked by division races and wild card chases to fill the new eight-team playoff format...
...league championships--one just concluded between the Braves and the Reds and one still in progress between the Mariners and Indians--feature the four teams that would have faced each other in the league championships of the old playoff format as well...
...what's more, in the course of eliminating the four "extra" teams from the revised playoff system, fans were treated to some of the more inspiring performances of the season...
...October, end as the fans' hopes rise and fall with each playoff game, we resettle into our place at the bottom of baseball's hierarchy...