[Strangler Lewis]

Now the Nationals have to fight for the number one seed. To give more teams a chance at the post season and ensure that division winners fight to the end for the number one seed, Bud Selig today announced that the second seeded team and the sixth seeded team that would otherwise not quite qualify for the one game playoff (ahem, Dodgers, Angels) will each take a written test on the history of the game. If the second seeded team scores higher, it will keep its playoff spot. If the sixth seeded team wins, the second seeded team's plane will be blown up in mid-air, and the sixth seeded team (Dodgers, Angels) will take its place in the playoffs.

Further contingencies will be announced if the sixth seeded team is not from a major market.

Study up, boys. Ya gotta believe.