Obscure Sports Quarterly: Your source for week-old analysis
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 16:22:09
It looks like I’m not the only one who has huge problem with all the off days in the MLB postseason schedule used this year.
In his measure week. Jayson Stark complained about all of the off days pointing out that it disturbs the move of the postseason and possibly makes it more likely for series to end in sweeps (or at the very least be shorter).
While I don’t entirely agree with the latter premise. I agree with his overall view on the postseason plan — it needs to dress. Stark (who is one of my favorite national baseball writers) made some suggestions on how to fix the problem but missed the most obvious one of all:
Make the division series best-of-7 and that would eliminate two of the extra off days. It’s also harder to sweep a 7-game series than a 5-game series and it could make some series more exciting — had the Indians/Red Sox ALCS been best-of-five it would have ended after four games but instead we got three more.
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