I've always had a secret love for the Minnesota Twins. It started because I was a fan of Kirby Puckett, but continued as I realized that the Twins are in a similar situation as my beloved Mariners as far as their market size is concerned. Except for the fact that the Mariners are horrible and have about twice the payroll that the Twins do.
Anyways, every year I admire how the Twins orgnization puts together a winner or at least a contender. It seems like a new ace emerges for the Twins prennially and this year it looked like they were in the playoffs even after losing their best two players (arguably Tori Hunter and Johan Santana) in the off-season.
As of this weekend, the White Sox had played like shit and had to win on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday against the Twins to make it into the playoffs and send the Twins home.
The White Sox won on Sunday and Monday by some sort of miracle and we got the one-game playoff between the Twins and White Sox.
Common sense would tell you that the team with a better head-to-head record should go to the playoffs, because that is obviously the better team. Not in Major League Baseball.
Well obviously the better team should get home field advantage right? Not in MLB. After 162 games of baseball, Major League Baseball decided home field advantage for this one-game playoff by a coin toss. WTF? Yeah, I have no idea.
Who cares about the 18 head-to-head games that the Twins and White Sox played (the Twins won 10-8), let's leave it up to this quarter that I just got from 7-11 to see who gets home field.
Of course the White Sox won 1-0 in a game that probably would have gone much differently had it been played in Minnesota. With all the rule changes that baseball has been giving into (instant replay, all-star game champ hosting the World Series, etc.), I can't beleive they're still deciding home field advantage by a coin flip.
The only saving grace is that our guy Griffey has another shot at a ring.
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