Word: wildness
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Attendance at ballparks during the regular season ending yesterday is down by more than 19 percent. Some teams are wondering if they can fill stadiums this week for the first play-offs in which each league's best second-place finisher is a wild-card contender, joining the league's three division champions...
Nearly half the fans--46 percent--say that having wild-card teams in the playoffs is a change for the better, while just 12 percent consider it a change for the worse...
...BASEBALL STAGED AN EXCITING pennant race and nobody came, would it still make a noise? That philosophical question is being posed as the regular season dwindles toward its conclusion next Sunday. Thanks to the introduction of the sacrilege known as the wild card--the best second-place team in each league will join the three division winners in the postseason--clubs that would ordinarily be playing out the string are still scrambling for that last coveted, though maligned, seat. "We'll take it any way we can get it," says New York Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly, who can taste...
...Braves; the return of Cincinnati's Big Red Machine; and a choice of two of these three: the three-year-old Colorado Rockies, the Los Angeles Dodgers (Nomo, no less) and the Houston Astros. Had Major League Baseball retained the old two-division setup in each league, with no wild card, the Red Sox would not be in the postseason, and the mediocre Philadelphia Phillies would...
...problem is that few people seem to care. When the Astros, only a game behind in the wild-card race, beat the Chicago Cubs on Sept. 18, there were 10,848 lonely souls in the Astrodome. When the Kansas City Royals, who were still in contention for the A.L.'s fourth spot, fell to the Minnesota Twins in the 12th inning on Sept. 20, fewer than 1,000 fans remained in Royals Stadium. Most distressing for baseball, though, was the pathetic support given the Yankees as they swept a four-game series from the still world-champion Toronto Blue Jays...