There are so many ways that they could look at going to a 156 game season to add some 3 game playin series, and make the 3 main rounds all best of 7 without extending the schedule.
As others note, half of September is teams who are so far out of it playing in empty stadiums to finish out the string. It would be better to cut back these games and add in some playoff games in their place.
The records that they used to be so worried about...really don't apply anymore because many of the hitting ones got messed up by the steroid era, and if they have a controversy over a guy's 400 season counting in a 156 game season, I'm sure they'll live with that after the highest average was 318 this year....Pitching wise the AL just had a year where 15 guys threw 162 or more innings. Fans understand that the game has changed as the era's change.
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