I guarantee that if the Brewers are the first Wild Card and lose, national media doesn't bat an eye (in fact, the narrative will be "They had to come back down to earth sometime."). But if the Yankees are the first Wild Card and lose, national media starts talking about reworking the playoff seeding or something. I certainly appreciate the current Wild Card format and understand its benefits (hell, it might get us into the playoffs), but the one-game Wild Card playoff isn't fair to really good teams that are unlucky because they happen to be in a division with the best team in the league. The AL is a little unusual this year (I say this without studying historic standings, maybe it's not unusual) in that there are four teams that are head and shoulders above everyone and are split between two divisions. Thus, there will obviously be a couple excellent teams in the Wild Card game.