Get rid of the Wild Card altogether and see how the Yankees like it.

"Here goes: Major League Baseball is proceeding with a playoff system that is just not fair to the New York Yankees. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and fans of all ages: The system is holding the Yankees down.

This is the seventh year of the current postseason format, but the potential Yank-apocalypse has spawned a wave of East Coast commentary about how the system must be changed. The Yankees could win 100 games, so the argument goes, but their terrific season could come down to one game: the sudden-death, wild-card game. How about some RE2PECT for the Yankees?"

You're protesting too much.


"Oh, it’s not about the Yankees? We did not hear all these insistent cries for reform three years ago, when the Pittsburgh Pirates won 98 games, and their postseason experience was one and done."

Yes.

But no one remembers because no one cares about the Wild Card in the first place.


So the conclusion that the postseason format is unfair to the Yankees is, indeed, "poppycock."

The Yankees, assuming they lose their division, shouldn't be in the playoffs in the first place.