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Post by fatmenace on Mar 25, 2010 13:52:42 GMT -6
Pretty good article from Howard Bryant on how expansion of the seasons may be hurting the sports. I tend to agree. The NBA season is excruciatingly long, plus an absolute ridiculous two month post season. I would love to see the season shortened, as well as the playoffs. You? sports.espn.go.com/espn/commentary/news/story?id=5024940 |
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Post by gk on Mar 25, 2010 14:23:03 GMT -6
The NBA is pointless From January to March.
Although (not to sound like a Simmons schill today) I love the idea of Simmons' "Entertaining as Hell" tournament. Tighten the automatic playoff berths to 6 per league and make everyone else play in some sort of tournament for the rest of the spots. Ideally this would enhance the desire of teams to play hard all year, and continue to play hard for seeding purposes.
As bad as the NBA is, I think MLB is worse. 162 games? Really? When it can snow both opening day and in the World Series, mistakes have been made.
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Post by fatmenace on Mar 25, 2010 15:29:15 GMT -6
Baseball especially, because in the current market, most small teams are already ten games back after a month. Halfway through the season there's only a few teams fighting for the wild card spot (it seems to me anyway).
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Post by finkle on Mar 25, 2010 18:40:36 GMT -6
they need the games to gain the revenue to pay the players.....too much money on the table for long seasons to be abandoned
i agree that most games seem meaningless, but people watch them and advertisers pay.
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