Baseball Season Should Be Back, Back, Back, Gone By Now

Why is the baseball season not back, back, back gone yet?

No one cares about baseball once football season starts. On that note, no one really cares about baseball even before football season starts let alone when MLB has to compete with the NFL.

Baseball is a situational type game so the commissioner and people in charge of baseball should be able to figure out the situation baseball faces now and fix it. There’s no need for signs from coaches on what to do, it’s pretty obvious.

I’m a big baseball fan but the season is dragged out longer than a drag bunt. Everyone can see what’s coming and who will make the playoffs usually well before the season ends.

Think back during this season at the beginning of August. Which teams were making the playoffs then? The Yankees, Red Sox, Angels, and Tigers in the AL and the Phillies, Dodgers, Rockies, and Cardinals in the NL. So we waited all the way until the end of September to decide what had already been determined nearly two months prior. The only difference is the Twins made the playoffs, but if the season ended earlier they probably would have made their strong surge sooner.

All those extra games tune me out and when most of them have no meaning it doesn’t make watching interesting. Why can’t there be 100 games instead of 162? There used to be less games played in Babe Ruth’s era why can’t that happen now? During a day in age when revenue drives everything you would think Major League Baseball would do all it can to make people show up and their ratings go up.

Now we’re left with games getting snowed out, like the Philadelphia at Colorado game. No one wants to play baseball in the cold and no one wants to watch baseball being played in the cold, either! That’s football weather!

Shorten the season, expand the playoffs to six teams, and schedule the season so the World Series ends on Labor Day weekend. That way no other sports will be going on besides preseason football so more people will watch America’s past time and bring it to the present day.