MLB Adds More Wild Cards to It's Playoff Format

Major League Baseball will add one more wild card team from each league starting next season.

Starting this October the division winners plus two teams with the next best records in each league will graduate to the post season. Although this may negate last day pennant-race thrillers such as last season involving the Boston Red Sox and the Atlanta Braves when they both suffered late-season collapses.

The only thing is, and this is probably due to time constraints involving cooler weather in October, especially on the east coast, the wild cards in each league will only play a one-game playoff (exactly like what would happen if two teams are tied with identical records at the end of the season) to determine who advances to the division playoff against the regular season division winner.

All in all though it does give more teams a better chance to advance to the playoffs and should create more excitement come early October.

Finally, Some Class at the Oscars

It's about time some actor reminded us of how Hollywood used to be; elegant, classy and humble-well, the performers anyway. Here's about-time-Oscar-winner for Best Supporting Actor winner Christopher Plummer and his acceptance speech doing justice to the old-time thespians. sagacious brevity, theatrical elegance, and understated humor.

It calls to mind other memorable Oscar speeches given by Hollywood legends such as Cary Grant, Charlie Chaplin and John Wayne, whose well-chosen words continue to teach and inspire.