The Double Wild Card Fiasco Of 2012 can only last for six more days. The on-again, off-again inclusion of two 2012 Wild Card teams in each league needs to be finalized by March 1st. Reports have swung from severe pessimism to severe optimism during the off-season, and now it appears that a positive resolution is in sight.According to ESPN's Jayson Stark, an agreement to start the Double Wild Card this year (along with the needed one-game playoff between the two) is near. The scheduling nightmare this brings is due to the fact the the new CBA was agreed upon after the 2012 schedule was finalized. Anyway, it looks like Bud and the union have almost hammered out all the details.
This, of course, is good news for the Red Sox. They project to be only the fifth or sixth best team in the AL—with their seeming only chance at the post-season through an expanded Wild Card format.