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Britfag here with question for Americans. The NHL and NBA regular seasons both consist of around 80 games each, and the MLB has 162, which in comparison to the EPL (which has 38 and no post-season) seems totally absurd. Don't you feel the way your major league seasons are structured reduces the significance of each game and makes the season stretched out and tedious? I don't see how people can get excited over individual baseball games until the post-season arrives, and even then the games are played in series..

However I absolutely love the NFL's 16 game regular season, every game feels like a huge event and I always make sure to watch the Packers on Sundays.

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>> Anonymous
>Don't you feel the way your major league seasons are structured reduces the significance of each game and makes the season stretched out and tedious?
Yep.
>> Anonymous
I'll play devil's advocate here: I think that the long seasons give teams chances to truly show who they are (or reveal who they aren't) particularly in baseball, which has always been a slow-paced, thinking man's games. If we had ended the 07 baseball season after 80 or 90 games, the Rockies would have never even made the playoffs. But I do think that the playoff structure is seriously fucked up-not in the MLB, which only allows 8 of 30 teams in, but the NBA and NHL playoffs are swollen, boring, and full of mediocre teams that never deserved to get in the playoffs. Same for college basketball and football. Playoffs should be a reward, not a right. But you and I both know it's all for the $.
>> Anonymous
We have the double the useless tedium in the regular season and then PLAYOFFS PLAYOFFS PLAYOFFS.
>> Anonymous
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone."


baseball is great because its season is so long. if you don't like watching your team play every night for nearly a year then don't watch, or, as in your case, find another sport you like better.
>> Anonymous
>>123223

I tried following the Mariners, but I just couldn't bring myself to watch 4 hours of the same thing every night. I also think having your final competed in a series is a total anti-climax unless it goes to game 7.
>> Anonymous
THe reason MLB plays so many games is because back when it started baseball was pretty much the only sport and you obviously couldn't watch it on TV so you had to go to the games. Also they couldn't cut back on the number of games b/c that would fuck with tradition and records ect. And the NBA, NHL, and to a lesser extent NFL are full of shit having half the teams make the playoffs. MLB used to only have 2 teams make it and play in the World Series.
>> Anonymous
>>123427
I THINK YOU ARE MISTAKEN
>> Anonymous
>>123207
this man is right.

in strike shortened seasons, things get fucked up, like the terrible yankees making it to the series in...82, 83? and getting demolished by the superior dodgers. probably wouldnt have happened that way in a regular-length season.
or in 99, when the 8th seeded knicks made it to the finals. only time thats ever happened...and i dont think it would have if theyd played a whole year. you need that many games when theres so much talent, to really show who's got the guns and who is built of smoke and mirrors.
>> Anonymous
PLAYOFFS!!! DON'T TALK ABOUT PLAYOFFS!!!!!!!!! YOU KIDDING ME?!!!! PLAYOFFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> Anonymous
Having a long season truly separates the men from the boys. Any shitty team can fall ass-backward into a winning streak, does that make them worthy of competing for the top prize? At the same time it allows for all teams to play one another. I find it absurd that NFL teams don't play every other team in the league at least once.
>> Anonymous
baseball is played in 2-4 (but usually 3) game series. so thats about 54 series' to play each year. this is done because of the nature of the game. the better team might not come out with 1 game, but will usually come out with 2 of the 3.
>> Anonymous
>>123544
Having a long season makes more money dipshit.
>> Anonymous
Baseball can have the extra games because it causes less wear and tear on its players. The exception is the pitchers, for whom they setup up pitching rotations to give their joints time to heal.
>> Anonymous
i think the nba would be significantly better if they cut 20 games (and 2-3 teams). too much cash involved though. the good news is, the fantasy season keeps every week interesting.
>> Anonymous
A larger sample size = better accuracy.

Same can be applied. The better teams will be the consistent ones that can stick it out after all those games.
>> Anonymous
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