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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
Why is expanding the playoff such a sacrilegious idea in baseball? It just seems so silly to me to play over 160 regular season games to mostly empty stadiums while only 8 teams make the real playoffs, and play a shorten first round at that. Wouldn't it make more sense to chop off some of those meaningless regular season games for most teams and give them a shot at playoff action with far greater fan engagement and revenue for owners?
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I'm actually a fan of the smaller playoff pool because it's much more likely a deserving team will win. Baseball is so random that if you let in half the league with expanded playoffs, any team could get hot at the right time and end up winning it all. That's not to say non-deserving teams don't win (Kansas City comes to mind), but the smaller pool of playoff teams makes it much less likely.