Baseball is More Competitive

In any of the other three major sports, their are more than four playoff spots in each league. In both the NHL and the NBA an absurd 16 teams get into the playoffs, more than half of the teams either league. There is no excitement in trying to get into the playoffs, because if your team is on the brink, and makes it as an eigth seed, there is no way they're going to defeat the top seeded team.

The NFL is better, with 12 teams making the playoffs. Still that is over a third of the teams in the league, and because it is a single elimination tournament, sometimes the best team doesn't win the Super Bowl.

In Major League Baseball, however, even before the playoffs begin there is a playoff-like atmosphere in a few cities. This excitement is found in some baseball stadiums before the playoffs because the teams that play in them are in a pennant race.

As of now, there are three spots still available, and five teams vying for them. There is just one spot open in the American league, the AL Central. The Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox are battling for their chance to make some noise in the playoffs, and after the Twins sweeped the White Sox in a three game series, they lead the division by half a game, with only one weekend left of baseball.

The Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets, and Milwaukee Brewers are all in a struggle to reach the playoffs. The Mets and Brewers are tied for the NL Wild Card, while the Phillies are a game ahead of the Mets in the NL East, with just one weekend left to play as well.

The past few games of all of these teams have been must see baseball. No other sport can say that they have must see games with the ramifications that these games have (except maybe the NFL, but that is only because of there short schedule).

Some think baseball is a boring sport. They probably haven't watched any games this past week.