Dumb Tie-Breaker Is Dumb

Do I oppose the “record against your division” tie-breaker for WC home field advantage simply because in 2018 it hurts the A’s? Absolutely not. Do I care more because the A’s are positioned to be hosed in the very possible event Oakland and New York finish the season with the same record? Well, probably. But dumb tie-breakers are dumb regardless of who they favor.

Don’t get me wrong — the tie-breaker they’ve come up with isn’t the worst of all possible ideas. Worse would be if they insisted on having a one-game playoff in which the only thing at stake was who hosted the actual one-game playoff. Imagine if the A’s had to fly from Anaheim to New York just to play a game Monday that determined…