Thread 150256331

162 games in a season isn't necessary

You don’t need to watch all 162 games, retard

>"baseball has SOVL"
>fans don't even watch the games

>>150256352
Both are true
I can’t watch a 1PM afternoon game because I have to work

>>150256367
>I have to work
why?

>>150256367
>has to work on a Saturday
Lmao

>>150256382
To afford food, rent, and internet, my third world amigo

>>150256395
>afternoon games never happen during the week

>>150256417
No, they don't.

>>150256440
Dumbass

>>150256402
you don't need to work for those things

>>150256457
>NL
Not a real league so they aren't real games.

>>150256485
ASG and WS champs, chump

>>150256539
More like HRT champs

How about this suggestion I thought up last week:
>expand the MLB to 32 teams (16 in the AL, 16 in the NL)
>each AL team faces every other AL team in two 4-game long series (1 series home, 1 away) during the year, same with NL
>no interleague play
>this equals a 120-game season
>also the team with the best record in each league wins the pennant and plays in the World Series, just like the good old days

>>150257343
>>no interleague play
>>also the team with the best record in each league wins the pennant and plays in the World Series, just like the good old days

>>150257365
explain to me why interleague play is good (other than the subway series)

>>150257390
because youre proving youre good against every team in the sport., not just the ones in your league

>>150256331 (OP)
Boreball isn't even a sport. It's in the same tier as golf.

>>150256331 (OP)
>Something available for me to follow almost every night if I feel like it is a bad thing.
Should be 365 1/4 games a year.

>>150257396
well in that case, what would be your proposition for organizing the schedule in a way where each team plays every other team, both home and away, and uses their full starting rotation - all in one summer?

>>150257505
why does it have to be contained solely in the summer? I remember watching some brewers game and it was snowing hard outside the stadium, was peak comfy

>>150257525
>Fenway and Wrigley with a roof

>>150257564
>wrigley with a proper outfield wall groundskeeper

>>150256331 (OP)
daily reminder : if your ""sport"" can have 162 games a season it's not a real sport

are there lots of retired old people who go to all 162 games of their team?

None of this is really necessary, it's just content filler for our otherwise fruitless lives. I mean what can anyone even achieve? A Child? Money? Power? No matter what it is, it will all be forgotten.
The emptiest parks are the graveyards. All but a few great generals, leaders and artists have been remembered and even they are just caricatures of their selves at this point.
We don't need 162 games, but sometimes after a long day, sometimes on a breezy afternoon, sometimes it's just right to watch a ballgame and it's good that it's there.
We don't need sports at all. Frankly we don't need global logistics, TV shows, we don't need factories, we don't need anything but calories, water a few minerals and shelter from temperature extremes.
But we have it because it fills the 10 hours of non-work we spend conscious with mild fulfillment.

>>150256331 (OP)
not my problem

>>150257525
Business Idea:
A Southern Winter League that runs a 64 game schedule between December and February. There are so many gaps between Charlotte and New Orleans that are basically swathed Braves fans by default. But a 12 team Winter High Minor League that can be filled by Free Agents, Japanese/Latin Leagues players looking for MLB contracts and AA-AAA players looking for swings.

Chik-fil-A Division
>Charlotte
>Nashville
>Memphis
>Raleigh
>Orlando
>Jacksonville

Wal Mart Division
>New Orleans
>Jackson
>Louisville
>Baton Rouge
>Birmingham
>Tuscaloosa

League
>8 games against each team in your league making up 40 games
>4 games against out of league teams making up 24 games
>3 game playoff between top 2 teams in league
>5 game Southern Series
Shit's done by Pitchers and Catchers report.

>>150258485
could add the whole sunbelt and probably cut down on the number of games

>>150256331 (OP)
You’re right. We need 324.

worse than long regular seasons are boring 5 or 7 game playoff series when it should just be home/away

>>150257427
>>150257731
Based, fuck this RNG ass ‘sport’.

>>150257343
Also get rid of DH rule. Play fielding you lazy overweight faggots

>>150261615
Black hands typed this

>>150256331 (OP)
yes it is

>>150257343
>expand to 32 teams
>4 divisions of 4 teams in each league
>teams play 8 series against each of their divisiom rivals (4 home and 4 away)
>teams play 2 series against all other teams in their league outside the division (1 home and 1 away)
>play 4 interleague series against 1 division from the other league that rotates every season (like in NFL)
>156 regular season games total
>only the winners of each division go to playoffs
MLB has been fixed

The south is a college football region. A minor league there would die. I do think Nashville and Charlotte should have MLB teams tho.

>>150263873
wildcard is sovl and rewards teams in the postseason, division winners means we'll jsut see phillies/doyers/sox/trash cans/stinkees every year

>>150263873
I like the Premier League-type structure I made better than this NFL one, but this is still definitely better than what we have now

>>150256331 (OP)
Wrong, boomer chud

>>150264949
>rewarding teams that can't even win their division
why? I guess it makes sense in NFL where there's not alot of games.

>>150265850
because underdogs deserve a chance and upsets are kino

>>150256331 (OP)
I wonder how 154 games became the standard, back in ye olden dayes of only day games, only rail travel, etc.

>>150265884
>hecking underdog kino
might as well have every team in the playoffs, why stop at 2nd place division losers?

>>150266280
t. malding first round exit

>>150265884
they have hundreds of games to prove themselves

>>150266416
and the division winner had hundreds of games too, so why couldnt they beat the wc team?

>>150256331 (OP)
've always wondered how American consumers tolerate this. 162 games to qualify for the actual tournament. Or 82 or whatever in basketball and ice hockey. It's just long filler arcs. And in most cases, half of the teams in the league qualify for the playoffs anyway, it's not even an elite filter where qualifying is a big achievement. I don't get why anyone would watch this in the long run, and that's before we get to how fair this schedule is in a sportive way. Can it truly be fair if not everyone plays the same opponents an equal amount of times?
Generally, more games = more money and that's almost all the suits care about. Got it. But with a regular season of this length and the lack of filter ... it seems pointless
Football also has become prone to adding more games to make more money. Expanding the World Cup, the Euros, the CL, and so on. But that's partially a (very dumb and despicable) necessity, since wages are out of control and clubs can't household for shit, so they need more income all the time. Doesn't change that it's shit

>>150266516
Most americans just watch the playoffs except NFL where it's more normal to follow the regular season

>>150266516
I have a tough time tolerating it. that's why I proposed >>150257343

>>150266516
It's just a daily routine and it's comfy as hell

>>150263873
4 team divisions are too small to limit the playoffs to the division winners. It is way to easy for there to be 4 shit teams in the same division and the least shit team gets an undeserved ticket to the playoffs where they either get their faced punched in or they get an undeserved trip to the LCS

>>150266516
>like sport
>want to watch more of the sport
>?

I do agree that 162 seems excessive since they end up doing shit like doubleheaders and random weekday afternoon games.

If you're going to change the season, there's really only one answer.
>120 game season
>Opening Day is Easter Sunday
>Final weekend of Regular Season is Labor Day weekend
>Bump Wild Card Series to best of 5
>Bump Division Series to best of 7
>Playoffs run from early September to World Series wrapped by the end of October, giving extra rest between playoff games
Obviously, the record books would have to be kept separate from the past, but this format makes the regular season more important and eliminates at least some early/late season weather issues.

>>150271742
>giving extra rest between playoff games

>>150270401
8 team divisions are too big tho. Divisions should be regional and NFL does it right, MLB should set up divisions the same way if they expand to 32.

>>150273000
From 1901 to 1960 the major leagues consisted of two leagues of 8 teams each. It's a great size