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With football season in full swing and the Jaguars, Gators and Seminoles winning over the weekend, I?m sure sports fans in Jacksonville are ready to get some rest this week before they cheer on their favorite football teams next weekend.
I?m sorry to break the news, but there?s no time to rest.
Take off your football jerseys and put on your baseball caps because this is the final week of the Major League Baseball regular season and it might be one of the wildest weeks ever.
The addition of an extra Wild Card in each league means more cities are still in the playoff hunt and more people are still paying attention.
I?ve always liked the exclusivity of the MLB playoffs and I?ve always felt the baseball regular season means a lot more than it does in other major sports.
But when I heard about the new Wild Card format I thought it might water down the regular season and take some of the excitement out of the playoffs. Now that the final week is here, I realize that?s not the case.
It?s not like Bud Selig is letting eight teams from each league into the playoffs for a seven-game first-round series (like in the NBA and NHL). It?s just one extra team from each league and that team has to win a game before they?re allowed into a full-blown playoff series.
Not watered down at all.
The 162-game season is still my favorite regular season in sports and although the NFL offers a great viewing experience, their regular season doesn?t offer games on a daily basis (not that I?m suggesting that).
But the baseball season is too long, right? It?s hard to pay attention to the games in April because they don?t really matter, right?
Wrong and Wrong.
Just ask the Yankees, Orioles, Rays, White Sox, Tigers, Rangers, Athletics, Angels, Braves, Phillies, Cardinals, Brewers, Pirates, Dodgers or Diamondbacks if they wish they could have a few April losses back?
All of those teams are still trying to get into the playoffs and they?ll tell you every win counts the same.
The season is long, but at least it gives sports fans something to watch while they wait for football.
But fans can?t wait to forget about baseball as soon as football starts.
I promise football isn?t going anywhere so everyone should give the boys of summer one more week of attention, then we?ll have the playoffs to watch and the new format should entertain everyone.
Oh, and Miguel Cabrera has a shot at the Triple Crown. I?ll tune in for that.
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