No respect

Well, with their 8-3 loss to the current Wild Card leading Houston Astros, the Chicago Cubs were officially eliminated from the National League play-off chase today. Eliminated today, one day after Major League Baseball did the annual coin flips to determine who would host the extra one game play-off in the event of a tie for a play-off spot. However, at least according to ESPN's reporting of it, MLB did not account for the possibility that the Cubs might tie for the Wild Card. The did six coin flips to accord the possible two-way ties between Houston, Philadelphia, Florida, and Washington. As I write, the Milwaukee Brewers and the New York Mets can still tie for the Wild Card but neither of them were coin flipped for either. Really MLB, how much effort is it to flip a coin 18 more times?