And if there were a 2nd wild card team, none of it would have mattered. Can anyone explain why this change needs to happen?

Delete the extra " after the URL.

Can a sports team lie about a player's injury to the press and claim they're attempting to defend the player's rights via HIPAA? Maybe a more broad question would be, how does sports injury reporting interact with HIPAA in general?

It would figure that I'd move away from Cleveland, then this would come up. I even have the right experience (did this job for all sports at a small D3 school for four years).

You don't remove umpires from most levels of play. Little Jimmy's fourth grade baseball team is not a billion-dollar enterprise. The fans, players, coaches, and owners deserve to have the game played at the most equitable possible level. However, here's a different question. We have data on the efficacy of a certain umpire at calling balls and strikes, to the point where we can say that so-and-so will 40% of the time give you a low slider for a strike. Does that come into the planning phase of a pitcher's gameplan?

Buehrle is a class act. Coming from a fan of a team in the same division, I'd love to see him be a hall-of-fame pitcher that throws for 18+ years for one team (though I wouldn't be surprised if he moves to St. Louis at some point). Today was another nice mark on that resume. Congrats, Mark!