two more wildcards?

things are pretty strange when it comes to baseball in this town these days.  due to that, i almost missed this news: MLB has announced two additional teams will be admitted into the post-season.  Seriously though, a 1 game playoff to decide who gets the wildcard?  isn't that kind of the point of a 162 game season?  as much as it would have been nice this past year...  how does that give any preference to the team that took the "first" wildcard?  i think i need some more detail on this one, but what do you guys think?