It's the chip and a chair thing. Playoffs are just a tournament in a short time period. Randomness will happen. Teams that spend like the Dodgers are at the table year after year. Sure, a low-budget time can find lighting in a bottle for a year or two until they have to pay the guys they developed and off to the big money teams they go and back to the drawing board goes the small market team. It sucks.
Hockey, basketball, and football have been around for 100 years. Baseball translates well over radio, which gave it a leg up for sure. Football and basketball are much better on TV. Still, the mismanagement of baseball has hurt it greatly and the lack of a cap is one of those issues. I still love baseball, but follow it so much less than I did due to the crummy shape the Reds are in, and generally have been for 20+ years. There is some hope with the plethora of young talent, but one or two of those guys has to mature into a real game changer. Young guys can look great and win the Rookie of the Year, and then a few seasons later be a platoon player. Hi Jonathan India!