Dear Sports Writers,
Never, ever, ever use 9/28/2011 as an example towards any argument you might be making towards trying to change the regular season of Major League Baseball. Don’t do it. You are insulting that crazy day in baseball by using it to explain why you don’t want to expand playoffs. Simply saying that if you make certain changes to baseball, then we can never experience the last day of the 2011 regular season ever again is rather ridiculous.
Let’s throw one thing out there: what happened between the Rays, Red Sox, Braves, Cardinals, Yankees, Phillies, Orioles, and Astros will never, ever happen again. It did not happen during the 150+ year history of baseball, and it sure as hell could not ever happen again. The sheer amount of drama, tension, surprises, and insanity that occurred in the 8-hour span cannot be duplicated, not even if you were to write a movie about it. The Rays in a span of two hours went from a team that just missed the playoffs to a Wild Card surprise-surprise. The Red Sox went from barely surviving a nasty collapse to becoming the biggest choker in the history of baseball---in twenty minutes.
Everything that occurred that day was a perfect storm of drama that you rarely ever see in sports—not just baseball. You had two epic collapses, one epic comeback, two teams one strike away from winning winding up losing the game, a projected playoff matchup shuffled several times in a couple hours, and lastly at least five heroes that will become trivia answers decades down the road. You expect baseball to do this again? Shame on you. Clearly the people mentioning this day don’t really, truly, madly, deeply know how improbable it is that such a night can happen again. So you sports writers out there, if you are not in favor of making the playoffs a little longer, you better provide better evidence.
Sincerely,
Witness of the Greatest Night in Baseball History
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