So, yeah, about that
Jeff Passan, back on 25 May:
What passes for parity in the NFL goes by another term in baseball: mediocrity. A little past the quarter-pole in Major League Baseball’s season, and 18 teams are within four games of .500.
Okay, so it blows to have tight races. Got it. But, wait, here’s Kevin Kaduk just the other day:
Only the mediocre AL Central and the coup that the Arizona Diamondbacks are staging in the NL West are currently holding a shred of intrigue.
So baseball sucks if teams are close together, and baseball sucks if teams are far apart? You guys are some good baseball fans.
Oh, Kevin has one more thing to add:
This is undoubtedly a product of the three-division system and yet another reminder that the regular season doesn’t matter as much as it once did.
I guess Kevin’s forgetting how exciting the races have been for the last, like, five straight years. Or had the evil division system not started yet then? I’m not a Doctor of Baseballogy like you, so I guess I can’t be sure.
