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2015 MLB Schedule Gets It Wrong; Only Playoff Baseball Should Be Played In October

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By @a24dowell

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Greg M. Cooper-USA TODAY Sports

The commercials speak for themselves. Teams are “in the hunt for October.” The commercials, of course, are speaking for playoff baseball. So when MLB announced the 2015 schedule, it said regular season games will be played in October and there is a great chance that the World Series will be played in November. Baseball struck out on this one.

To advertise that the best of the best play in a month set aside for them, baseball should not allow all 30 teams to play beyond Sept. 30. In fact, the Wild Card play-in rounds should take place Oct. 1-3 and the postseason series take off from there. This issue is not new to baseball, as it has become a trend as of late and it should not be happening. The only exception to the rule should have been in 2001 when baseball had to delay some of its season after the Sept. 11 tragedy and there was no way to avoid baseball not going into the month of November.

Baseball players know it is a long 162-game marathon that gets crammed into a six-month schedule. That’s the beauty of it and a major reason why players go through the minor league system. To say baseball can fit the games into six months with built-in off-days is something they have been doing for decades. They should go back to that and make the 10 teams with the best records in all of baseball showcase their baseball talents in one month for the world to see. Then, before the month of November, you crown your champions.

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