Should anyone really care about MLB before June? Not really. In a season that has 162 games and where in the last 12 years 8 different wildcard teams have made it to the World Series, the arguement that the first 30 to even 50 games don't really matter. Five years ago the New York Yankees fell behind the Boston Red Sox 21 games early in the season, only to come back and make the playoffs that same year. With so many games the law of averages benefits the more talented teams and makes the value of a regular season game diminshed.
Now with the addition of an extra wildcard team, the beginning of the season matters even less. A team could start the season terrible just to rebound and have a strong summer and make the playoffs. In the NFL, since 2000, only one team to start the first part of the season 3 games under .500 have even made the playoffs and none have made it to the superbowl. In that same period of time, there have been 3 World Series teams that started their first 30 games with less than 50% of their games won. Thats not just making the playoffs, thats going all the way to the World Series! This includes the 2005 Houston Astros who started the season a dreadful 11-19. Now with a second wildcard team, even more teams who start the season unprepared or pitiful will have opportunity to comeback.
I say lessen the games by half! This will put more emphasis on the regular season and people will care more about the playoffs when the teams they've watched fight so hard make it. The numbers for TV ratings over the past 30 years are evident that "America's Pasttime" has passed. (http://sels.blogs.wm.edu/2011/10/24/mlbs-television-ratings-or-is-baseballs-audience-too-old/) It is the age of the NFL and UFC now. People need excitement, they need instant gratification, and with a season so long nobody cares to watch games 1-30 when you have 132+ left to watch change must come.
Less is truly more. To save baseball we need less baseball, simply economics... too much supply dwindles the demand.
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