Go Chaos!

How cool is it that with two games left in the season, the Indians do not lead in the wild card raise, do not play a team ahead of them, and still control their own destiny to make it into the play-offs.

As it stands, the Red Sox and Yankees are tied for the AL East lead and one game ahead of the Indians for the wild card. And since the Yankees play each other, the Tribe is guaranteed at least two losses of the teams ahead of them. If the Sox take two from the Yankees, or vice versa, two wins will mean a gain of two games on the loser and a wild card berth.

But the best case scenario is that the Yankees and Red Sox split the last two games and the Indians beat the White Sox twice. Then all three teams finish tied. Teams tied for the division do not play a playoff game if the loser would be the wild card. But since the loser might not be the wildcard, first a one game playoff would be held in Yankee Stadium between the Sox and Yankees, a la 1978. (Insert obligatory Bucky Dent reference here.) Then the loser would play Cleveland to determine the wild card entry.

And, for fun, the other teams wouldn't know who they are playing until the outcome of the whole mess because the wild card winner will not play a team from its own division. So if the Tribe wins the wild card, I think they get the AL East winner, but even that could change, whereas the other two teams would start with Chicago.

This would be the coolest thing since USC finished ranked number one in both polls and couldn't play for the national championship a couple of years ago.

Oh, and the White Sox suck.