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<blockquote data-quote="champaignchris" data-source="post: 1539756" data-attributes="member: 26283"><p>One thing I’m not seeing is a proposed end date to the regular season.</p><p></p><p>If they start on July 4 and end on the originally planned date of September 27, that would be 82 games in 86 days.</p><p></p><p>Even with the reduced travel of playing only regional teams, that seems like a near suicidal schedule.</p><p></p><p>So they push the last game of the season back a week? That would basically give everyone an off day once a week. With no coast-to-coast flights, that seems more manageable.</p><p></p><p>But then you’re bumping up against winter for your northern teams, and you have a longer playoff season because of the expanded playoff pool. If you’re not starting the best of three Wild Card series until October 6, there’s no way you start the World Series until November 1 at the absolute earliest. Would anyone want to risk having game 7 of the WS on November 9th in Boston or Chicago or Denver?</p><p></p><p>There’d almost have to be a neutral site World Series, right? Will the Dodgers get it to make up for losing the All Star Game?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="champaignchris, post: 1539756, member: 26283"] One thing I’m not seeing is a proposed end date to the regular season. If they start on July 4 and end on the originally planned date of September 27, that would be 82 games in 86 days. Even with the reduced travel of playing only regional teams, that seems like a near suicidal schedule. So they push the last game of the season back a week? That would basically give everyone an off day once a week. With no coast-to-coast flights, that seems more manageable. But then you’re bumping up against winter for your northern teams, and you have a longer playoff season because of the expanded playoff pool. If you’re not starting the best of three Wild Card series until October 6, there’s no way you start the World Series until November 1 at the absolute earliest. Would anyone want to risk having game 7 of the WS on November 9th in Boston or Chicago or Denver? There’d almost have to be a neutral site World Series, right? Will the Dodgers get it to make up for losing the All Star Game? [/QUOTE]
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