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Originally Posted by mikev
Ooh ooh, I know!!!
DON'T LET THE SEASON LAST UNTIL THE LAST WEEK OF OCTOBER!
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It's going to be worse in that regard this year thanks to the late start of the regular season due to the World Baseball Classic. The season opens this year on Sunday, April 5th, and closes on Sunday, Oct. 4th. As a result, if the World Series goes seven games, the last game would be played on Nov. 5th (assuming the same sort of post-season schedule as has been used the last two seasons). Without the WBC, the season likely would have opened a week earlier on March 29th and thus would have closed a week earlier as well.
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Originally Posted by SJM1583
Scheduled doubleheaders every Sunday would shorten the regular season sufficiently.
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Won't happen though, because the financial incentive to doubleheaders has long since passed. The reason why scheduled Sunday doubleheaders were common in MLB in earlier years was because the two-for-one deal they offered resulted in more fans attending that if the games had been held as single Sunday and Monday contests. But that hasn't been the case for some time now.
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Originally Posted by SJM1583
On top of that, the post-season should be held with fewer days off to replicate the regular season more closely...
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Four additional off days were added to the post-season schedule in 2007 to satisfy a requirement in MLB's television contract with Fox. Given the importance of such TV contracts, it doesn't seem likely those off days are going to be removed any time soon.