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Season Opener
Nov
3
2008
Why was baseball playing so late in the year? Their schedule is too long, so they get what they deserve by having a game canceled by snow. The 2008 baseball season started in late March. The playoffs started in October, which means they had 6 over full months of regular season. At least they kept the playoffs and championship to under a month.
The baseball season is way too long; baseball is being selfish by hogging half the year. Here are my proposed rule changes, to be enacted by the Secretary of Sports (a new bureaucracy to be imposed by the new administration in Washington) – each sport gets 4 months, plus an extra month for playoffs and 2 weeks for the championship.
We’ll start with football, since it’s the best sport.
- Football gets fall, which is September, October, November, and December for regular games.
- Hockey gets winter, which is January, February, March, and April.
- Basketball has to share with hockey, but I think that the fan bases of each are okay with that.
- And baseball gets summer, which is May, June, July, and August.
Initially I was going to give each sport 3 months, so that the 4 major sports are evenly divided throughout the year. But 3 months isn’t quite long enough, plus the playoffs would go into the next sport’s season anyway, so I settled on 4 months.
- Football stays the same – 4 months of regular season plus one month of playoffs and one week of championship.
- Hockey loses a month and a half, at the beginning of the season, plus May for playoffs and June for the championship. So the last part stays the same. That may need adjusting, because ice hockey should not be played in June.
- Basketball is in the same boat as hockey, which is fine, because they each had eight months of regular season plus championship stuff. If you add in pre-season, it gets even worse. A sports season should not take up the majority of the year – it needs to be but a season.
- Baseball loses the most, because it is the most bloated. It started in late March and went through all of October. If you add in the pre-season (late February for baseball), there are only 3 months of the year without baseball.
Since baseball uses about a month for the playoffs and championship, they would be done by the end of September. Much better.
“There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven”
– Ecclesiastes 3:1
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 7:52 am and has been carefully placed in the Sports category.
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I don’t care how long a baseball season lasts – make it 51 weeks for all I care – but what I don’t like is when they play on football days and take away from TV coverage. Fall Saturdays are for college football. There are only 12 games a year. MLB has well over 10 times that number. Play your silly baseball games any day of the year, except those few times a football game is on. It’s especially infuriating when one has only one channel on which he can watch American sports, and that one channel is showing baseball on a Saturday in October. Play on Monday. Play on Saturday morning, before noon Eastern. Just don’t interfere with another sport’s normal schedule.
So I agree with your suggestion, just for different reasons.
November 6th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
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