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Major League Roundup
Selig Ponders Alteration to Wild Card
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from nytimes.com
By JACK CURRY
Published: October 14, 2006
DETROIT, Oct. 13 — Commissioner Bud Selig was wearing an overcoat as he
watched the Detroit Tigers play the Oakland Athletics on a frigid Friday
here. While the Tigers, a wild-card team, are inching toward the World
Series, Selig mentioned that Major League Baseball might consider altering
the playoff format to make it more challenging for wild-card teams to advance.
Four teams — three division winners and a wild card — make the postseason
in each league. While the wild card finishes second in its division, the only
reward that a division winner gets in playing that team in one more home
game.
If the subject is broached at the next owners meeting in December, Selig said
he would advocate fewer home games for the wild cards. That would mean one
home game, not two, for a five-game division series.
“I’ve been thinking about it a lot and I think it’s something that we need
to review,” Selig said. “We have to think of making it more decisive.”
When Selig was asked if he thought the change could be made for the 2007
season, he said: “I don’t know. I wouldn’t make that big of a deal about
it just yet.”
Wild-card teams won the World Series three consecutive seasons, when the 2002
Anaheim Angels, the 2003 Florida Marlins and the 2004 Boston Red Sox each did
it. The 1997 Marlins were also champions as a wild card. The Tigers could
become the fifth wild card to win it all.
Selig added that he would like to see one World Series game played during the
day. Selig noted that the television ratings for day playoff games have been
disappointing and wondered if baseball officials could persuade network
executives to agree to an afternoon World Series game.
PINIELLA AND GIANTS NOT A MATCH As much as Lou Piniella would have wanted to
manage the San Francisco Giants, he took himself out of running for the job
yesterday because of geography.
Piniella, who is broadcasting the American League Championship Series for
Fox, lives in Tampa, Fla., and was reminded this week on a cross-country
flight of one of the main reasons why he left the Seattle Mariners.
“When the opening came up, he was interested,” Piniella’s agent, Alan
Nero, said in an interview yesterday. “He was intrigued by the opportunity
and happy that they considered him.” (AP)
REMEMBERING BUCK O’NEIL Thousands of people lined up yesterday, starting
before dawn, to get a final glimpse of the former Negro leagues star Buck O’
Neil.
O’Neil died Oct. 6 at 94 from complications of congestive heart failure, and
his body was in repose at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City,
Mo.
Don Motley, the museum’s executive director, said more than 10,000 people
came through during the first five hours of visitation. (AP)
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