More November World Series Games This Year?

[philliesfiend55]

I'm just wondering why Major League Baseball has elected to have a staggered start this year, mid-week with teams playing their season openers between Wednesday, April 4 and Friday April 6. This year's regular season's concludes on Wednesday October 3.
If they had taken advantage of this year's calendar and gone back to the old system of having the season end on a Sunday then you could have had one nationally televised game to kick off the season on Sunday April 1, with most or all of the other teams debuting Monday, April 2. The season would then end on Sunday, September 30. (Seasons are designed to have 182, or in some years, 183 days.)
By concluding the season as late as October 3 as it will this year and with the possibility of an extra wild card team added this year to further delay the start of the leagues' Division Series then almost assuredly, this will back up the final games of the World Series into November. I thought that one of the stated aims of Commissioner Bud Selig a few years ago after the Yankees-Phillies World Series of 2009 was played sometimes in very un-baseball-like weather in the first week of November, was to alter the schedule to provide seasons with an earlier conclusion to avoid subsequent World Series being played in the bitter chill of November nights.

Gary Carter (1954-2012): R.I.P.

-Dennis Orlandini (philliesfiend55)-

[PlanetZoltan]

I'm just wondering why Major League Baseball has elected to have a staggered start this year, mid-week with teams playing their season openers between Wednesday, April 4 and Friday April 6. This year's regular season's concludes on Wednesday October 3.
If they had taken advantage of this year's calendar and gone back to the old system of having the season end on a Sunday then you could have had one nationally televised game to kick off the season on Sunday April 1, with most or all of the other teams debuting Monday, April 2. The season would then end on Sunday, September 30. (Seasons are designed to have 182, or in some years, 183 days.)
By concluding the season as late as October 3 as it will this year and with the possibility of an extra wild card team added this year to further delay the start of the leagues' Division Series then almost assuredly, this will back up the final games of the World Series into November. I thought that one of the stated aims of Commissioner Bud Selig a few years ago after the Yankees-Phillies World Series of 2009 was played sometimes in very un-baseball-like weather in the first week of November, was to alter the schedule to provide seasons with an earlier conclusion to avoid subsequent World Series being played in the bitter chill of November nights.

Gary Carter (1954-2012): R.I.P.

-Dennis Orlandini (philliesfiend55)-

Yeah when i was first hearing about the added wild card teams i remember hearing that one of the bugs with the idea was that it would back up the postseason schedule possibly into November and they said they absolutly did not want to play any games in November. I think back to the 08 World Series game 5 i believe where the weather was so awful in Philly they postponed the game, I think that was actually late October but regardless, they really should try to keep the World Series games in October, IMO.

[Rich the Giants fan]

I don't care if they play baseball into December. In fact, I'd like it played year-round. I just hate the Wild Card, the DH, Interleague Play and the All-Star Game deciding home field advantage.

[PlanetZoltan]

I don't care if they play baseball into December. In fact, I'd like it played year-round. I just hate the Wild Card, the DH, Interleague Play and the All-Star Game deciding home field advantage.

I agree with you on the Wild Card, DH, and interleague play, but i dont see any of them going away for a long time. Although i kind of like the all star game deciding home field advantage, but thats just me.

[Bothrops Atrox]

Its not like the weather on Nov. 1st is really any different than Oct. 30th.

[bluesky5]

Change for the sake of change. Opening day is a big deal so Bud decided to start it in the middle of the week so kids will have school and homework and need to go to bed early. That way they can't watch as much of the game as they normally would. Or go to games at night as a family since kids have school. Oh and since pitching is a big deal lately we need to make sure they don't see the teams ace pitcher. It was well thought out. Just like adding 3 NL teams and 1 AL in a 6 year span and instead of keeping the Brewers in the AL west he moved them to the NL central to make the leagues uneven. Along with other assorted bonehead moves.

With the concussion issues in football and labor issues and half assed regular season play in the NBA, baseball has a small window to really gain popularity. Bud will put a stop to that. We don't need any of that.