Would the odd number of teams allow for a bye weekend?

It’s rediculous to allow even more bad teams into the playoffs than get in now!
Especially when making the playoffs is used to jusdge the merits of things like Moneyball!

By doing that your ensuring that the six games over the weekend result in a .500 record where as before, like in 1994 all 4 teams in the AL West could have been swept because they were all bad at the same time. It’s funny. By tilting the schedule in 1995 the AL West had 3 teams OVER .500 and Oakland 10 games under. Far cry from when 10 games under .500 was the BEST record. Creative accounting at it’s finest, all to preserve the integrity of the game no doubt.

Creative accounting instead of a credible and meaningful regular season and now the embracement and celebration of mediocrity just continues.

Go back to the 2 division format. Two winners, that’s it. Whoever wins that series advances to the World Series. That’s how you get the best and most deserving teams into the World Series. Not gimmicks, snow jobs, scams, BS, 1 game playoffs or any other nonsense.

If your that adament about adding 2nd and 3rd place teams into the playoffs at least do it honestly. Have a separate playoff that all four 2nd place teams (and any 3rd place, 4th place ect teams that you want)

You can have the real championship and then you can have a quasi, 2nd 3rd place playoff tournament and include every team for all I give a ****.

Just make the regular season king. The gatekeeper. Make the four division winners the only four teams to have a chance to go to the Series. After all they beat everyone else out over a 162 game season. Now they have to go beat them out again in a best of 3, 5, or 7. and if they lose that’s it? They don’t get a second chance like the 2nd place and now 3rd place teams do? What kind of BS is that? Win your division fair and square and then you have to win it again in the playoffs against a team you’ve already beaten out. Why are they even there? Put ‘em in a 2nd place tournament. They don’t belong in the same playoff as the teams that won their division because they finished 2nd. Second place! they should be eliminated on that basis alone. Disqualified. Put ‘em in a separate tournament, they just don’t belong.

That’s the way you get the best teams in the World Series, by eliminating all but the four Division winners. Anything else is just a bull sh*t scam job swallowed by gullible and naive fans and espoused by Selig and his minions to keep the illusion of a World Series possibility alive until mid September for all but one team in every league.

But they won’t stop there. Oh no. They won’t be happy until every team has at least some sort of tie breaker type playoff scenario going into the last weekend of the season. Every team. Then they’ll start talking about “fairness” Sure 10 teams is fair but wouldn’t 12 teams really be more fair than 10?

The celebration of mediocrity will just continue. All teams over .500 should be included. We can call it the Bud Championship Series (BCS for short)

When you talk about fairness what could be more fair than letting everyone in the playoffs? Eliminate the entire regular season. Start the season with a World Cup style draw.

Selig and the owners forget why people like baseball. They like it because it’s HARD to make the playoffs. It’s an achievement, not an entitlement. You have to earn it. Grind it out, day in and day out. 162 games over a 182 day period. Keep devaluing that achievement over a 162 game period with gimmicks and con jobs and people will stop paying attention. They’ll just wait around until the BCS starts when they find out who their going to play in the first round.

Baseball continues to try to emulate the NHL or the NBA when they should be trying to set themselves apart from those sports. Football’s a little different in that you simply can’t play enough regular season games to truly eliminate the unworthy. A certain portion of the less than best have to be eliminated in the playoffs. Baseball has none of those concerns. With a 162 game season it’s plain and obvious for all to see who’s worthy and who’s not.