Like, say if you had a commission job. If your employer gave cash bonuses to the top 10 performers, if they changed that to the top 20, wouldn’t you feel more confident in having a chance to win said bonus?
And wouldn’t the topmost performers feel a bit more lax knowing they’re that more certain to obtain said bonus?

Honestly, nobody really cares about the playoffs until the LCS- unless your team’s in it. Look at the TV ratings for those games- do they beat preseason NBA?

If baseball were so great (and I think it is) why the hell doesn’t anyone like it.

If you think about it, the inter-league thing (in general) is out of the bag, they won’t be getting rid of it, so why not use it differently. Get rid of it during the regular season, and expand it’s use in the playoffs.

You would, on average get “better” wild card teams than you do currently since you’d be getting the next 2 best records from all of baseball, instead of next best from each league.

I think it would be cool to see 1st round matchups like the Red Sox vs. the Rockies and things like that, instead of the always the “usual suspects”. It would eliminate the “can’t play teams from within the division” because they’re seeded 1-8 and if that’s how it falls, that’s how it falls.

I would balance out the regular season schedule somewhat so it isn’t so heavily “division play” weighted. And might even consider going back to 2 divisions per league (so you’d have the 4 winners and 4 next best records instead of the 6 and 2). I think it might be cool (but since the playoffs are well attended anyway, the enticement of I/L wouldn’t add much in the way of revenue, and would take away some from the regular season—but, with all the teams able to chase 2 W/C spots instead of just 1, it might keep interest up longer in a few towns). Also, with the talk of how teams “match up” with others for the playoffs (if the Twins had played Texas (who they owned) instead of the Yankees in the 1st round, think about adding “preparing for teams in the other league” to that mix).

I didn’t mind the separation of each league into divisions – I was 19 (albeit no less capable of rational discourse than I am now, and probably too stoned to care anyway) when that went down. But I figure that any sport that self-inoculated with a sop-to-the-witless-and-impatient atrocity like the designated hitter, or whose drooling imbecile of a commissioner came up with anything as stupid as letting an exhibition game determine home field advantage for the World Series, is perfectly capable of making itself even more tedious by adding yet another round of playoffs.

Just out of curiosity, since I wasn’t paying close attention and/or reading a Bud Light comment put me to sleep before I could get to the punchline, will this new round shorten the regular season, become part of the regular season, or will they be playing on showshoes in Minnesota?

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I think I’ll have a better chance of finding a Young Republican without a trust fund than a so-called purist that will admit this.

That said, there is, I think a much better case for divisions when you only have two out of 24 teams making the postseason, which would have been the case had they not gone to divisions. Going to 10 out of 30 — the current proposal — seems a bit too far to me.

It’s funny how it’s Boras who’s screwing up the baseball world for loaning a guy’s family money when this BS is going on. Ok how does one go about stopping this, Shredding Tweets? Picket signs? Articles??? NBC breaking news clips?? You tube rants? Or is this just going to happen without anyone really making a fuss?

The 2008 postseason did not have the Yankees. The nitwits at the networks will easily be in favor of any plan that helps avoid that happening again. Once a decade is unacceptable; once a generation is still too often.

This is a money grab. It will also be a stepping stone. How big will the postseason field be by 2025? Twelve teams? Sixteen? “But it wasn’t so bad last time, so now we want to make it even better…”