Wild Card Fever: How MLB’s October Hunger Games Became the World’s Favorite Distraction
From the banks of the Ganges to the docks of Rotterdam, humanity is currently transfixed by a burning question: which overpaid men in tight polyester will be granted the privilege of playing one extra October baseball game before their ligaments explode like cheap fireworks. Yes, the MLB Wild Card standings—those gloriously American hieroglyphics of W-L…