Baseball, where more is less

This week, agent Scott Boras suggested to MLB Commissioner Bud Selig that the World Series be expanded to a 9 game series, with the first 2 games played at a neutral site. The potential result behind the idea would be that the World Series, a ratings killer in recent years, would become a major event like the Super Bowl is now.

There's just one problem: The Super Bowl doesn't take two weeks to complete, although there are times that it seems like it. Event television, which seems to be Boras' and Selig's goal, is tough to do when it is spread out over that long a span, and after a 6 month season, a Game 8 in early November would likely seem like too much.

I agree that changes do need to be made to baseball, but adding 2 more games to the championship series would not improve the game. It's bad enough that the season ends as children go trick-or-treating as it is. Simply put, the season should be cut by 8-24 games, and at least one more playoff team per league should be added.

The most exciting part of any season in sport is the post-season, but in November, with football, basketball, and hockey all in season (pun intended), baseball's championship series would just be too much, even for North America's seemingly endless desire for more sports.

End the season in mid-September, get to the LCS by the first week of October, and finish the season before the costumes hit the streets.