Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 31, 2008
Two Seasons a Year

It's not that the season is too long, it takes too long to crown a champion!

There's no such thing as too much baseball. The "problem" is that it seems to take forever to crown a winner. In Golf and Tennis, they play around nine months as well, but they crown four champions each year. The "drag" in baseball is not that they play too much, but they wait too long to crown the champion. Indeed, they don't play anywhere nearly enough. I'd go for two seasons per year, two champions. Get me more baseball.

Maybe do a northern schedule, April-September, five months of games, one month of playoffs and a southern schedule November-March, same thing. Or everyone can build a dome! The teams that could play all year would be the six on the west coast, Arizona, Texas, Houston, Florida, Tampa Bay, Milwaukee and Toronto (the Twins dome is doomed). Atlanta can get pretty cold in the winter, but they are a possibility. If they move two northern teams into San Antonio and Las Vegas each year, that would be 16. Four divisions, four teams each. Veterans can take the winter off, and players still under the reserve clause can make extra money! I'll have to think about this some more.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:03 AM | Baseball | TrackBack (0)
Comments

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

That is all.

Posted by: Mike Whalen at October 31, 2008 11:20 AM

Crap. I thought it would wrap!! I'm sorry!!!

Posted by: Mike Whalen at October 31, 2008 11:22 AM

I don't want to hear anymore alarmism revolving around weather conditions. Not a tear shed about weather in an open stadium Angels vs. Dodgers World Series.

Do people want stadiums with domes and ultra air conditioning because it gets too hot in the summer?

Give me a break.

Posted by: Mr. at October 31, 2008 12:22 PM

uh, have you ever heard of the rainy season in California? there are years when it rains every day from January 1 to Feb. 15, more common in the Bay but even in LA it can get bad. And it can get pretty cold at night, 30s and 40s.
By contrast, we have perfect summer weather.

Posted by: vk at October 31, 2008 01:25 PM

Maybe I'm up too early on a Saturday morning, but I think I can get my head around this idea. I'm going to wait for the coffee to kick in before I make a decision.

Posted by: glenn at November 1, 2008 08:02 AM

re; playing year baseball

this guy isn't thinking globally.

we have a NAFTA agreement with mexico, first of all.

we could easily integrate the mexican league into major league baseball as third and fourth major leagues or as a third major league.

Second, adopt spanish as the second official language of the united states.

third, bring all of the baseball playing central american and south american countries into NAFTA.

fourth, bring CUBA on board.

what you'll end up with is the ability to play year round in any of about sixteen countries.

of course Japan and Korea should eventually be brought on board in this arrangement as well.

eventually, it might actually be the real WORLD series.

==art kyriazis, philly
WORLD CHAMPIONS 2008

Posted by: art kyriazis at November 1, 2008 09:29 AM
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