Inter-league play

As the Major League Baseball (MLB) regular season heats up and winds down all at once, I'm amazed at how much the leagues have changed over the past 20 years. Before the strike year in 1994 there were only two divisions in each the American League and National League and there wasn't inter-league play, nor a wild card playoff series let alone a wildcard "play-in" game.

I think it’s time once again for my rant regarding interleague play in Major League Baseball (MLB). I don’t like it now, I didn’t like the idea when it was being tossed around way back in the early to mid 90s and I don't think I'll like it in 20 years. There is nothing to be really gained for the way it is set up, except in the few markets where a city has two teams like New York, Chicago, the San