Wild cards are a genuine salvation and our baseball season in New York offer the two best examples of why.
I get the sentiment. I do. I also agree with it, to a point. Playoffs are watered down in all sports. There are so many available spots, it often feels like the regular season is just an extended exhibition schedule.
But the overwhelming majority of teams from 1903-93 had the exact opposite experience. Playing out the string from June 1 on is a rough sentence for any fan, let alone for the teams actually playing out the string.New York Mets second base Jeff McNeil 2-run home run during the fourth inning when the New York Mets played the Miami Marlins Friday, August 16, 2024 at Citi Field in Queens, NY.On the one hand you have the Mets, who in prior seasons would’ve been toast when they were 11 games under .
But I remember what turned out to be the first spark of what became the great Knicks renaissance of the ’90s. That was 1987-88, Rick Pitino’s first year as coach. Early, that team was every bit as awful as the three that had preceded it, bottoming at 14-28. They were still a less-than-braggable 37-44 entering the season’s last game but … remarkably, they found themselves in Game 82 with a Pacers team that was 38-43. The tiebreaker meant this was a win-and-in.
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