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Originally Posted by Frank Drebin
What does everyone think about the new 10-team playoffs that appear to be 99% done?
I dont think the level of competition drops, as you are just going to see another 88-91 win team included but it seems like MLB is trying to re-create the last day of last years regular season every year by doing a one game playoff (much like movie studios thought the secret ingredient to Avatar was 3D, so everything else had to be 3D). I dont generally like the one game playoff unless its a tie break of the regualr season which is a special situation.
I also dont like extending the postseason further into the cold season and think MLB needs to go the other way when it comes to this (they are going to have another Tampa/Philly nightmare sooner or later), but if they cut out 1 or 2 off days during the postseason then I can live with it.
I'm generally fine with this and am interested to see how it work.
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Probably could solve the extended playoff problems if they reduced the schedule back to the old 158 game schedule and have the Play-In Round take those days.
The owners probably would reject it though considering they'd lose out on 2 home games worth of revenue and then the sticky of issue of if current contracts should deduct or stay the same due to the 4 less games per year.