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It's an entire league run by an army of Mike Greenbergs right now. Do you have the rules in front of you? Yeah. So they did. It's a proposal and let's back up for a second because this actually is prime baseball season for the most diehard your baseball fan you know tweeting three days till pitchers and catchers or pitchers and catchers have you know arrived and we're still two months away from meaningful baseball. So it is pitchers and catchers as far as I know they spend like one week away from Arizona and Florida. Yeah every year. They take like a year vacation from being reported. It's a big it's big season for watching your favorite team like the new acquisition throw, throw 10 baseballs off a mound, and then go and play 18 holes a golf. Through, like, you take a picture of them or a grainy video, like a big foot quality video through a chain link fence that also has that blockade screen played over it, from about 300 yards away. New rule, for baseball, we're gonna get to the actual proposed new rules, but here's how you could stay relevant baseball. Have Bartol Klohn report every single spring, even though he's not on a team anymore, just to see how fat he is. Just have him report. Just have that be a pit. That should actually be like punk Satani Phil. It should be baseball's back. He just reports to just Arizona in general. He doesn't even go to a camp. He can do both. He can do one Arizona, one Florida, have the families on opposite coast. Here you go. Perfect. And then he just shows up carrying like an old school suitcase wearing a Tommy Bahamas shirt and a fedora. And that's a boom. That's the perfect beginning to spring right there. OK, so the proposed rule is baseball wants to, I think it's in 2022, it would start. They want to have the playoffs shift to seven teams, seven teams make the playoffs in the A L and seven teams make the playoffs in the N L. Now what happens from there? The first team, the best team in the league gets a buy. So both A L and L and L have one buy. Okay. Then going down the list from there, you have the next best team gets to pick their first round opponent. And so the first round switches. So the first round instead of the one game playoff, the first round is now a three game series all at the higher seeds home stadium. So there's still benefit for being a two three or four seed or no two two or three seed Okay, uh wait no two three or four. Yes, because five six seven so two three and four all are at home for three games Got it to start the playoffs now what happened wait wait wait wait wait wait Selection Sunday they're all at home for a three game series. Yes. So all three games are you mean two out of all three games

Or at home. Oh wow, okay. Yeah, so it gives obviously the benefit, you know if you're 81 and 81 and you get the seventh seed Uh-huh, you don't get a home playoff. All right, so let me ask you this if you're in the national league and you're going up It get let's say the Dodgers somehow only get the fifth seed Do you want playoff cursor on the first round?

Yeah, this is the intrigue. So this is why and we'll get to the fallout and people being upset about it

But yes, that is a, that's what ends up happening. So you get the selection Sunday, the two, three and four get to or two in three, get to pick their opponent. Four goes with whoever's left. Yeah. So the two seed gets to pick whoever they want to play. It could be the 17, it could be the 15, it doesn't matter. Or the 15, I'm getting confused.

Basically, I got all the numbers. So the two seed gets to pick whoever they want to play. It could be the seven team. It could be the fifth team.

It doesn't matter.

Or the fifth team, I'm getting confused.

Yeah, basically, I got all the numbers.

Basically the four is the last person at the bar at the end of the night and you're like, yeah, I guess me and you are, we're gonna do this. It's the ultimate bulletin board material because the two seed gets to pick a team basically say we're gonna kick the shit out of this team and then that team gets to say no one

believes in us we're gonna kick the shit out of you and then of course the three seed gets to

pick and then the four seed ends say no one believes in us. We're gonna kick the shit out of you.

And then of course the three seed gets to pick and then the four seed ends up with the five or whoever is left and that will be the new playoffs and then they go next round goes back to the regular. So four teams are left regular five game series. Got it. Then the CS. I personally, it's crazy. stupid and I know baseball purists will hate it but from a fundamental level of

making I personally it's crazy. It's stupid and I know baseball purists will hate it but from a fundamental level of Making September more enjoyable making a lot of markets still feel like they have a shot Having just more playoff baseball, which isn't a bad thing and eliminating the one game playoff That always kind of feels like it screwed someone over. I'm kind of in on this.

Listen, I don't like the one game playoff even though it worked out really well for the Nationals this year just because of that error and like the eighth inning, but I was very close to being on the wrong side of that one game playoff and it sucks. Yeah, sucks. I don't I don't like it at all. It doesn't feel fair like after 162 game season to have one game where it's like, okay, you lose, you go home. So I'm with you. I like replacing that. I also like the

intrigue of having a by week even though I hope that a team I root for never has a by week that sounds like it sucks. Yeah, just sit around No, you get to you get to get everyone in in line. You get to watch everyone else beat each other up So it's actually good. I mean, it's a competitive advantage I know but I don't. It really isn't that long because I would assume they would start playing the next series. Like they'd play the first round right away.

Yeah, I'd be like Thursday or Friday would be your first game. I don't like the idea of a by-week. I don't like it. I like keeping in rhythm if you're a baseball team. Well, rest first. trust the bait

with their we go with you can have it every year stands

but uh... i'd i'd do like how it's messing with people's brains because

you write the outcome of all this is i think it's more fun

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