The MLB September Drama Solution

Tonight on the Lemur, you have really the perfect storm of Northeast Corridor love: the Yankees win the AL East, and noted Boston lover Peter Gammons, in a column linked right next to the game story, advocates for an expanded baseball playoffs. Because in a year with zero compelling team races, we clearly need to invent something.(A small moment for the Empire: Woo. You clinched with a sacrifice fly and didn't even really celebrate, because for Empire Fans, a ticket to the playoffs is like buying car insurance. Woo.)Look, I realize that we're never going to put the toothpaste back into the tube and lose the wildcard. With an odd number of divisions, we'd either need to go to an NFL style East, West, North and South divisions, which would most likely mean expansion and/or making a team switch leagues, a la the Brewers, in a time where baseball is more likely to contract than expand. Realistically, since there are only four teams in the AL West and six in the NL Central, t...