Changes blowin in the wind for baseball

Let's Play Two

After the long winter, and my heavens it seems like forever, we hit March and have the expectation of a new season.

Another 162 games, with no scheduled double headers, and I just think that sucks.
Owners you see do not want to let 40,000 fans in for 2 games, when they can schedule another date, even if it's October the 5th, and pushes back the powst season.

However the winds of change are blowing and there is some momentum towards an extra round of playoffs. So the real question becomes, how do you get another week squeezed in to the regular season without extending the season to November ?

Well one way is to schedule 4-5 doubleheaders, and work them into weekend play, make them day - night double dips, and get your fans to return at 7pm, after a noon 1st game, gives the players hopefully a 3 hour break, to eat, relax, and managers time to re think their line up.

By scheduling double headers, you take a week and a half off the schedule. Another step would be to schedule early season games in late March, in dome stadiums, or southern cities, so that early into April the league avoid rain outs.
A best of 5 "wild card round" will add an additional teram in both the NL and AL leagues, thereby hopefully added some playoff races for additional wild card chases.

There will be those that see this as being non traditional, but once we expanded to 28 teams in 6 divisions, you cannot see baseball as the traditional sport it was 50 years ago, when 2 teams moved to california, and the American League expanded to Anaheim, while the National League moved into Houston. Things change, and it is time that if owners want to maintain the 162 game schedule, adding that extra round requires some compromise. The double headers can add that 7-10 days where the extra round fits in.

I think scheduled double headers are that answer Blowin in the Wind, the change needed to inject some life in the pennant races past the All Star Break.