Look, I get it, at first blush your response to what’s coming in the next few paragraphs might go something like this: “There are already too damned many teams in the baseball playoffs! We don’t need any more of them!!”

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And that’s fair.

The next thing you might declare is something that goes along the line of: “ Even the most die-hard citizens of Queens, N.Y. , and Cincinnati, Ohio wouldn’t have wanted to be subjected to a 163rd game of a season that, for the two of them, already felt exhausted after 162!!”

That’s fair, too.

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