Baseball Playoff Format

Originally Posted by SentToStud

I love baseball. Especially in October.

But I hate, absolutely hate, the 5-game Divsional Series format.

How the hell can teams play for eight months and play close to 200 games (including spring and, if lucky, playoffs) and have the first round decided in a best of five series?

Strikes me that baseball should somehow, someway, find time for two more playoff games.

Good point. Wrong solution.

The season is already too long. Funny that a team like the Dodgers play for 5 1/2 months and then get eliminated in a long weekend. They used to play 154 regular season games before 2 teams went straight to the World Series.

Now they play 162 games for 8 teams go into the playoffs. It's the season that never ends.

Go ahead and make the first round 7 games. But for God's sake make up for that by shortening the regular season. A pennant race is no less exciting if it ends after 154 games.