Commissioner Bud Selig’s plan to expand baseball’s playoffs to 10 teams gained a sense of inevitability after little to no opposition emerged during meetings this week with owners and general managers.
Little to no opposition emerges to commissioner Bud Selig’s plan to expand playoffs to 10 teams - ESPN (via @Mike_FTW)
Aaaaaand I’m done with baseball.
Seriously. What a joke.
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I really hope the Players Union blocks this. Bad for fans, bad for players — the season is already so long as it is and with this they’ll be playing well into November with one of two consequences: either already fatigued players are forced to deal with longer games and risk injury or the regular season is shortened which screws players — not to mention fans — out of additional games.1
The argument that other sports have more playoffs is bullshit. Look at the NBA, where something like 26 of the 24 teams make it into the playoffs — that shit is boring. The one and only reason to add more playoff games is: greed; attracting Nielsen phantoms to consume the ads on your national TV broadcast is just about as far from giving a shit about the fans as you can get.
Unlike John though, I’m not done with Baseball — I’m an A’s fan: I feel his pain, to an extent — I will keep flogging myself. Because what else is there? College football, where players are starting to fake injuries? No thanks. I guess I could start watching hockey.
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A friend’s family has season tickets to a minor league team in the area and they know a player who has been up & down between AAA and the bigs a few times. I know that players like that are paid on a per-game basis and the pay difference is pretty staggering. ↩
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