Major League Baseball might have the dumbest tie-breaking formula in all ofmajor sports.  The Chicago White Sox and Minnesota Twins finished the season (kind of) with identical records.  Minnesota was 10-8 against the White Sox through 162 games. Logic says the Twins should win the division.

Sometimes the MLB doesn't operate on logic.

MLB says that the two teams must play one more game, tonight (Tuesday) to decide who wins the AL Central.  OK, then the Twins should at least host the deciding game right?  Wrong.

Baseball decided that home-field should be decided by a coin flip.  The reason?  They needed to know, for logistics, where the game would be played if necessary three weeks ago before the teams had finished playing each other.  Sure, it is much easier for a team to be able to sell tickets three weeks in advance of a game that may or may not be played.  But the teams finished play a week ago.  That would give the Twins plenty of time to sell tickets to a game that wasn't even for sure going to be played until YESTERDAY, the day AFTER the regular season ended.

And so what if two teams play each other the last weekend of the season?  Let both teams sell tickets and the one who loses out can just buy them back or allow for refunds the following year.

However, that isn't even the weirdest, or dumbest, part of this debacle. 

Technically, tonight's game is a regular season game.  That's right, it's not a play-in game, or a one game playoff.  It is game number 163 (home game number 82 for the White Sox). 

One of the beauties of baseball is that there are 162 games.  It's not a sprint, it's a marathon.  Over the course of 162 games, we should be able to determine who is the better team.  You can't hide a weakness for that long.

After 162 games this season, Minesota is better than Chicago.  It's that simple.  As an impartial observer, if one teams beats another 10 out of 18 times, they are the better team.  Baseball should recognize that.  If Chicago wins tonight, they will be 10-9 against Minnesota this year, and the Twins will STILL be the better team.

Regardless of tonight's outcome, the Twins should be in the playoffs.