[oh8eleven]

Oy. Give me the days when there were 16 teams in two leagues, the teams with the best league records won the pennant and went to the WS.

They just can't stop screwing up a good thing.

[llevrok]

juice boxes and participation ribbons for all the players!!

[Jim W N]

Trying their best to screw it up.

[Red Badger]

Are you crying?.....

Are you crying?.....

There’s no crying in baseball!...................

[Still Thinking]

Since Congress thinks they have the authority to legislate NCAA playoff berths, are we gonna have to run this by them?

[alternatives?]

It seems like they are devaluing the first 162 games.

[dangus]

EVERYBODY GETS PARTICIPATION TROPHIES!!!

This isn’t even good money-making. People don’t get to know the contenders, so they kill the narrative, WITHOUT adding to the number of fans, since you can only watch one game at a time.

If they’re going to keep three divisions, go back to one wild-card team, 8 total playoff teams. (One-game playoffs were also a stupid idea.)

[Sans-Culotte]

Sounds horrible, like it is from a satire site. Every time they make changes to bring in more viewers, they just ruin it for the fans they already have.

[treetopsandroofs]

Meh. Baseball left me at the 1994 World Series (there wasn’t one).

Then came the steroid heroes.

I used to be a huge fan.

[kidd]

Sounds like MLB is moving towards having a second season.

Everyone gets to play !

[dfwgator]

Tigers fans....

[ealgeone]

A game where being very good is batting .300.

Wished that's they way the real world worked.

[Skooz]

I agree with you.

They had a great game and should have just left it alone.

[Joe Boucher]

And why?
To squeeze a few more dollars from the stpoopid fans?
Leave baseball the hell alone or lose your fans.

[Fester Chugabrew]

They need to add a base.

[bigdaddy45]

Those mid-November games in New York and Boston should be entertaining.

[Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey]

What a bullsh*t diversion from the HUGE technological cheating scandal ... so as not to focus on ALL THE PLAYERS who were in on it with THIER MANAGEMENT!

#unionbattle

[OttawaFreeper]

The NHL has had the same sort of problem for all of these years. When I began watching that league seriously, the playoffs went to about Victoria Day (Canada) or just before Memorial Day (United States). Now it is into about mid June and you get some idiots that want some sort of a mini season during the summer. And to think that my Dad grew up with six teams with four making the playoffs and the Stanley Cup was awarded by about Mother’s Day.

[vigilence]

Am I the only one who sees this as a distraction from the sign stealing scandal that punished zero players involved?

[Mariner]

I absolutely detest any and all changes in baseball!

[oldbill]

So they play 162 - or 154, whatever - to eliminate 4 teams.
It’s as bad as the NHL and NBA.

Best solution - add 2 teams (the talent is already diluted), make four 8-team leagues, no interleague play, 154 game schedule, and have 4 winners who do two playoffs to get to the World Series.

Season over by October 25.

No more teams with 82-80 records getting into playoffs.