I do not like 1 game playoff,why uncork all that bubbly and lose next tues and out....Yankees have never had to do this in the past,,the way they realighned leagues sucks...
obviously MLB wants to officially call the WC game the "playoffs" (for hype, marketing, revenues ... "Wild Card game presented by Budweiser") ... but then why don't the WC teams have to choose their 25-man playoff roster before this huge do or die game?
probably because it's really more like game 163 of the season (a la Yankees-Red Sox 1978) as a "play-in" to the playoffs.
if the Blue Jays were "one and done" in a WC game, then don't think many Jays fans would consider that really ending their 22 year playoff drought.
as mentioned, if MLB changed the WC format to a quick 2 out of 3 series (Bob Costas suggests having a doubleheader so that it still
could be decided in one day) then "uncork(ing) all that bubbly" would make more sense.