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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
I'm happy that the jays made the wildcard and everything but I'm not only one that doesn't consider making the wildcard making the playoffs right? I mean major league baseball can say that it means you made the playoffs but I think it's just a one game play-in to make the real playoffs.
If the Jays lost, God forbid, there's no way that if I was talking to someone next year about the previous season I would say "hey at least they were a playoff team last year". No. They made the one game wild-card play in or tiebreaker or whatever you want to call it but I would not refer to it as "playoffs". I reserve using the term playoffs for the ALDS, the ALCS or the World Series.
Again ignoring what major league baseball calls it, I personally consider a one game tiebreak to get into the wild card as no different than the wildcard game itself, in terms of just being a tiebreaker and not "real" playoffs.
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It's the postseason, you can argue all you want but by definition it is after the season. I'm sure that is why MLB goes with the term postseason rather than playoffs.