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If anything positive comes from COVID-19’s impact on the sports world, can it please be Major League Baseball keeping the 16-team playoff format?
The MLB does want to go to 14 in the future but can I be greedy?
The Toronto Blue Jays have nearly clinched a playoff spot in this shortened 60-game season.
But I don’t care. They’re in the playoffs.
Baseball purists will discuss the watering down of the road to the World Series and devaluing the 162-game regular season.
To that, I’d say take a trip to Cooperstown and relive the glory days of baseball because this is sports entertainment business now. More and more leagues think of ways to expand playoffs for one reason.
It gives us fans more chances to be engaged with the team we cheer for by playing meaningful baseball later into the summer or, better yet, into September.
That means more television viewers, more reasons to buy tickets, more reasons to get swept up in the game-day experience and more reasons to buy a hat, jersey or one of those stupid foam fingers.
In the end, it sounds like a win-win for the owners, the players and the fans.