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There is no one major thing to look at today — I’m still mulling over the parallel progress of the player-pay-deflating Protect College Sports Act with the blatant executive cash grab of the 24-team College Football Playoff — so let’s take a tour through a few smaller bits for now.
MLB’s latest proposal
I covered this in detail at Baseball Prospectus earlier this week, but here are some additional thoughts. MLB proposed a 154-game season that would institute a No Mondays scheduling policy, save for the creation of another national game, meant to spotlight more teams and also of course make more money in broadcast deals. Along similar lines, the postseason would expand, but not in terms of teams — instead, the Division Series round would move from five games to seven, meaning instead of 12-20 possible DS games every October the range would be 16-28. That’s more national television to package and sell, too.
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