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Friday, October 31, 2008

MLB season is too long?

By Tangotiger, 09:45 AM

I don’t get statements like this:

Come to think of it, cutting April and September entirely from the regular season wouldn’t be such a bad idea. The season is wayyy toooooo lllllooooooonnnnnnng.

Ideally, MLB would be played 365 days a year.  Every four years, they get Feb 29 off.  Realistically, give them two months off (Dec, Jan), Spring Training in Feb, and then play March through November.  (Don’t give me the too cold business: make all the November games in the south.) That’s 9 months, instead of the only 7 we currently get.  There’s no such thing as too much baseball.  The “problem” is that it seems to take forever to crown a winner.  In Golf and Tennis, they play around nine months as well, but they crown four champions each year.  The “drag” in baseball is not that they play too much, but they wait too long to crown the champion.  Indeed, they don’t play anywhere nearly enough.  I’d go for two seasons per year, two champions.  Get me more baseball.

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