Notwithstanding the standard tension of being on the verge of elimination for days on end, the worst part about the Division Series’ refusal to end might be the extension of the “are the new playoffs TOO random?” discourse that, even by the standards of baseball fans, has been particularly neurotic in recent days.
You’re probably familiar with the hand-wringing. Three of the four winningest teams in baseball this year — juggernauts of 111, 101, and 101 wins respectively — managed to combine for a grand total of three playoff wins in 11 attempts, none of them coming all that close to a LCS appearance.