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Look, the MLB is 2 by revenue, but 3 by popularity at this point. For as much whining middle America does, they always watch when NY, Chi, Bos, Phil, LA and probably SF are involved. Your statement implies the regular season might be useless for the NBA, which you're right about as a sports fan, but wrong about from a business perspective. Regular seasons these days are about selling things to the customer. If people don't feel they have a chance to win, they will tune out. Baseball needs to get them national numbers up. Making sure the Cubs, Yankees, Dodgers, Mets, Phillies are in the mix is a good way to do that. I'd rather have a 20 playoff streak burning out in the semis then one championship and 30 years of futility like the Reds.
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That goes for any team in any sport. The solution isn't to b*stardize the regular season. If your team can't hang over 162 games, you shouldn't be in. They added a third division and 2 wild cards to remedy the fact that only 2 teams in each league got in. Watering down the postseason only keeps a lot of mediocre teams around, which can invalidate whoever wins the title. Trying to adjust the playoffs is trying to fix something that isn't broken and then breaking that too.


At the end of the day, baseball is a regional sport and does a damn good job in that regard.
 
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Is expanded playoffs just for this season only (since it’s a special case), or continues going forward?
 
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tremonthustler1 said:
That goes for any team in any sport. The solution isn't to b*stardize the regular season. If your team can't hang over 162 games, you shouldn't be in. They added a third division and 2 wild cards to remedy the fact that only 2 teams in each league got in. Watering down the postseason only keeps a lot of mediocre teams around, which can invalidate whoever wins the title. Trying to adjust the playoffs is trying to fix something that isn't broken and then breaking that too.


At the end of the day, baseball is a regional sport and does a damn good job in that regard.
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Of course, it keeps bad teams around. It also increases viewership. One of the fastest ways to get back ahead of the NBA is to make sure as many teams as possible are in it until the end. 30-year winless streaks are not wavy in 2020. Being a regional sport means lockouts and eventually, irrelevance. A sport popular in multiple countries (way more than the NFL) should have higher aspirations. If the NFL, which makes double the revenue has no qualms going to14, then 14 or 16 shouldn't be a problem in baseball. I'm a fan. I watch it too. I'd rather bad management exposed then complaints about overspending (cough cough Blue Jays). If in a 16 team format, you still can't make it in, we know what's up.
 
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Hopefully the expanded playoffs does stay. 3 division winners, 5 remaining best teams by standings, 3 game wild card round, 5 game divisional round, 7 game lcs and ws. Can even cut the season a bit as well. 152 or even 142 games. Less stress on the players. Start the season like 2 weeks later instead. Make the games count more since there's less and will have more fans excited with more playoff teams.
 
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