Brad doesn't like that 12 teams make it to the postseason now. And he especially doesn't like it that two wild card teams made the World Series. And he especially especially doesn't like it that the two wild card teams that made the World Series are teams that wouldn't have been eligible to make the postseason even last year. It's this last bit that prompted him to start this thread, is my guess. But saying "I don't like this," is not as provocative as saying "These teams don't deserve to be here," and "Will any team that deserves to be in the postseason play in the World Series ever again?"
This thread is really just about his frustration with the current playoff structure that allows the 5th best team in one league to compete against the 6th best team in another league to determine the league's champion. While LGO has shown some rare instances in the history of major league baseball where teams, record-wise, who were not in the top 1, 2, 3, or 4, made the postseason, for the first 153 years of existence no 5th or 6th best teams, record-wise, has ever made the postseason without also winning their division. And now, the first year those 5th and 6th best teams are allowed into the postseason without having to win a division, two of them make it to the World Series.
The argument Brad is making is those teams don't deserve to be there. There is no president, after all, for them being in the postseason, let alone in the World Series. While I disagree with labeling them deserving or not deserving, I do agree that 12 teams making the postseason sucks and is very (historically) un-major league baseball-like. MLB will never lessen the number of teams in playoffs now and that saddens me - even if it allows my middling Tigers to make the postseason next year
. My guess is it saddens Brad too and this thread is him venting his frustration over the situation - just in a needlessly provocative manner.