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Originally Posted by jayswin
The whole playoff structure is stupid in MLB. To me having the divisional series as a best of 5 is even more egregious. But its all dumb.
You have two divisional winners that play a mickey mouse best of three, you have four playoff teams that don't get a single home game, you have thousands of fans that passionately follow their team all year only to get stuck with their playoff series during the work day on short notice, to the point where a stadium is 2/3's full, and the best finishing teams in the league could be be out of the playoffs in 3 games in a silly best of 5.
Just goofy stuff all around.
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I find it all beyond frustrating. Every year I shake my head at this.
They play the longest most drawn out regular season and then absolutely rush the playoffs. Where the games are the most fun to watch and there is actual intensity. The sport is literally better in the playoffs. Do they not like revenue? Do they not like attention?
The sport is set up for natural theatre and drama. Almost every sports fan I know who aren’t really baseball fans in the regular season tune in for playoffs.
The format, the length, the broadcast times are all entirely braindead