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Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS
I think this may be a part of it. I am a rabid baseball fan and do not care for the extra level of playoffs (even though my team would have been on the outside without it this year).
After 162 games, putting teams in the playoffs that did not win a division and making the first round only 5 games will more often than not allow a lesser team to slip though. Couple that with the calender and I think the casual or non-rabid fan drops away toward the back end of the playoffs.
Shorten the season by 10 or so games or insert double headers, re-align to four divisions and have two rounds of seven game series in each league.
That or contract, re-align to two divisions and eliminate the wild card.
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Maybe the biggest factor was they forgot to make a Lasorda commercial exhorting New York fans to get to the TV.
It's probably a variety of factors. The two teams that played in the World Series this year, and sometimes I think the fact that we get so deep into October now, I don't know, last week here in Pennsylvania it didn't feel anything close to what baseball weather should be like. There's something bizarre to me, and awful, when teams are having to play in miserably cold and wet conditions.
Also, by this time in the year, the football seasons are going.
There might be some dissatisfaction that people have towards the Fox broadcasts, too. The endless, endless, over and over, again and again, promotions are awful. Tim McCarver ain't any fun to listen to, and frankly, the games are taking too long to play. I feel a certain amount of consternation knowing that if I watch the game, it'll be a minimum of 3 hours of too long of commercial breaks.