The COVID-19 regular season of Major League Baseball has stumbled to the finish line. Most of the season was less than what we have come to expect in quality. For starters, the team rosters expanded up and down as needed, a lot of the pitchers on double header days were Triple A players who frankly weren't ready for the show. And to top it off the doubleheader games were only 7 innings. Again, not what one would expect from MLB baseball.
The season was only 60 games long
for most teams, less for others. But, with the use of a host of made up
as you go tiebreakers, MLB now has 16 teams that qualified for post season
play. And outside of the first round playoffs which are best of three affairs,
the division and league championship series will be played at neutral
sites. Why? Because baseball could have a hard time getting games
played on time in cities such as Minneapolis, Buffalo (home of the Toronto Blue
Jays this year) and Denver. So, in its great wisdom MLB will play in
"bubble" sites in four warm weather cities. This way the games
will be finished by the end of October and MLB will get a giant paycheck from
its television partners. Which is why MLB has pushed this sham for the
past two months.
