MLB considering expanded playoffs

Unfortunately the playoffs are what the networks actually buy with the TV packages. The regular season is a loss leader. The networks want more playoff games, with later starting times. Real fan friendly.

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Originally posted 09:51 AM ET  10.10 by Razor Ray

Best of 3 is ridiculous. Why not just toss a coin?I say shorten the season and let these wildcard teams have a go at it. Oviously, this will help the Red Sox hehe.

Shorten the season, do away with the wild card, and have the overall winners of each league play in the World Series. Old School.

ANd bring back day games.

And double headers!!

MLB may as well head to the playoff formats of the NHL & NBA, why not give every team the impression they are playoff contenders so they can soak the fans for even more money.
This move will continue to make the regular season meaningless and only appeal to the "event fans" who come out to be seen at playoff games.

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Originally posted 11:01 AM ET  10.10 by hbomb

Unfortunately the playoffs are what the networks actually buy with the TV packages. The regular season is a loss leader. The networks want more playoff games, with later starting times. Real fan friendly.

Yep... more forward thinking from Bud.

"Let's just saturate the damn thing!"

It's about time Selig started doing something for the fans. The biggest joke is no instant replay. These purist are another joke. By the time the umps get together to try and get the call right the call could come by a text or ear phone. So far the only thing Eckersley has gotten right is strike zone off limits to instant replay. Fans pay so much money for seats and don't need to have a umpire say oops we blew it. Two wild card teams battle in a one game playoff seems ok or best of 3.

Why not use the NFL format. Shorten the season by 10 games and start the playoffs a week earlier. I've never understood why the sport with the longest regular season gamewise, by far, has the shortest playoffs. It's just...mean.

why not just let everybody into the playoffs?????????

This clowns run as commissioner cant end soon enough.

I wonder if this is the same Chicago Tribune writer who is pontificating about a Zambrano-for-DiceK trade in the other thread today. Dude, put the pipe down (coughs).

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Originally posted 11:18 AM ET  10.10 by 28th Coming up

It's about time Selig started doing something for the fans. The biggest joke is no instant replay. These purist are another joke. By the time the umps get together to try and get the call right the call could come by a text or ear phone. So far the only thing Eckersley has gotten right is strike zone off limits to instant replay. Fans pay so much money for seats and don't need to have a umpire say oops we blew it. Two wild card teams battle in a one game playoff seems ok or best of 3.

A certain no-hitter comes to mind. Oh, wait, it wasn't one was it.

I want to know why they used a picture of KenoshaMark with this story ???

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Originally posted 11:17 AM ET  10.10 by Otis B. Driftwood

Yep... more forward thinking from Bud.

"Let's just saturate the damn thing!"

it all depends upon the money ...
and who is in your family tree ...

hasn't this been done ... doesn't the NBA have more teams in the playoffs (that last for a kabillion years) than out? ...

and while I'm on my rant ... aren't the seasons long enough already? ... we have the MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL all going at it at once ... damn ... isn't there such a thing as too much ????

steps off soap box ...

I just wished MLB would stop the madness of playing baseball into late october and early november. They need to end the season in the middle of of september, play more double headers during the season, so the World series can be played the First week of October so we can get on with the football season seems every year the baseball season gets longer and longer the players are spend need more rest due to a grueling schedule

six teams a league should make the playoffs, two groups of three teams participating in round robin play with the group winners going to the LCS would guarantee more playoff games and make the races more exciting. this is the only real solution

I think that adding a second wild card team for both sides is stupid because then it won't be fair to the teams that accually win the division title to make the postseason and it also wouldn't be fair to the less popular teams like the Athletics and the blue jays because the more popular teams like the yanks or the red sox will always get picked

I say add three more teams in each league and have the two wild-wild cards do a potato sack race to see who gets to play the winner of the other wild card. What the ****, Selig. After all this time you don't realize that a watered-down playoffs won't get you the money and polpularity you're looking for? Put a random ball packed with C-4 and a contact detonator in the ump's pocket, that'll bring up the ratings. Schmuck.

Does Arkansas have a professional team?

bud selig what the majors league baseball needs is the instant replay that thanks to the umpires the braves series are in jeopardy

Knew Bud Selig would sooner than later figure out a way to get the Pirates, Cubs, Orioles and Mariners back into the Playoffs