The Florida Marlins of 1997 and 2003, the Anaheim Angels of 2002 and the Boston Red Sox of 2004 are the four World Series wild-card winners besides the Cards.
On other cable networks, particularly IFC, Comedy Central, and the Cartoon Network, a wild array of comedy series are taking similar advantage of their niche status.
Mrs Baugh said Robert Conrad, known for the 1960s television series The Wild Wild West, gave them the money after hearing their story on the radio.
Since the wild card was instituted in 1995, the Yanks have lost all three ALDS series playing as a wild card.
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This is the latest in a series of unusual bondings in the wild that have surprised and delighted zoologists in Kenya.
Louis Cardinals, who qualified for the playoffs on the last day of the regular season, became the fifth wild-card team to win the World Series in 2011.
One the Penguins desperately needed after the Islanders evened the series 2-2 with a wild 6-4 victory in Game 4 that appeared to have the top seed reeling.
In the 1970s, the shave-up-or-ship-out policy was part of an effort to keep the hairy, wild members of the "Bronx Zoo" World Series teams in check.
Having grown up on the farm where the series, along with its British predecessor Wild at Heart, is filmed, he knows not only the space but also, and more important, the 60-plus animals that call it home.
Alan Moore is one of my favorite comic book writers, and his wild, arcane imagination has given us some wonderful series, such as From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, V for Vendetta, and Watchmen, which were adapted to the big screen.
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So look for the percentage of wild-card teams both winning and reaching the World Series to decrease, possibly dramatically, over the next few years.
The difference now though, is winning a division title means having a chance to win the World Series that is 300% better than a wild card's.
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Under the old format, a division winner's chances of winning the World Series were only about 44% better than a wild card's.
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Under the old system, wild-card teams had about a 9% chance of winning the World Series.
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Audi is flirting with the wild side, perhaps best embodied in its autumn introduction of the savory S series.
After defeating Atlanta in the wild-card playoff, they eliminated the Nationals in five games in the division series and lost Game 7 of the NLCS to the Giants after taking a 3-1 series lead.
Pioline, the top man in French tennis before a series of injuries caused him to slip down the rankings, entered the tournament as a wild card.
The South Australian, dubbed "Wild Thing" because of his pace and erratic control, underwent shoulder surgery following the 2005 Ashes series and missed most of the 2006 season.
In 2011, the BBC denied misleading viewers of Attenborough's frozen planet series with footage of newborn polar bear cubs filmed in an animal park, rather than in the wild.
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